Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the Arabic newspaper Al-Quds inLondon, has been told that Osama Bin Laden is still alive. He says bin-Laden was wounded in an attack on his Tora Boramountain base in Afghanistan last December. Atwan is one offew journalists who interviewed bin-Laden before theal-Qaeda attacks on September 11.
Atwan says he...
The Washington Post reports that Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is calling for an investigation into whether President Bush and other government officials had advance notice of the terrorist attacks on September 11 but did nothing to prevent them.
McKinney says, ?Persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America...
The White House has set up a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers who live and work secretly outside Washington. This is the first time the ?Continuity Operations Plan? to ensure survival of federal rule after an attack on the nation?s capital has been activated.
The back-up government has been put in place in case al-...
Al-Qaeda?s attempts to acquire nuclear weapons may have been thwarted by Russian con men, according to the Pentagon.
After analyzing containers, computer discs and papers found in their deserted Afghanistan hideouts, intelligence officers found no trace of materials which could have been used to construct a nuclear bomb.
However...
Eric Schmitt and James Dao report in The New York Times of February 4 that the top Marine general for Central Asia and the Persian Gulf is moving his headquarters to Bahrain from Hawaii. His counterparts in Army, Navy and Air Force have already moved to the region.More than 1,000 war planners, logistics experts and support specialists are now...
The man who tried to blow up an American airplane has been identified as Richard Reid, age 28, a small-time British criminal. He was identified by British police from fingerprints sent by the FBI. He was born in southeast London in 1973. His mother Lesley is English and his father Colvin is Jamaican.
He belonged to a mosque in a poor...
A Turkish student carrying explosives and a bio-protection suit is being held in Germany after being arrested as he tried to board a flight to Iran. The 29-year-old man, identified as Harun Aydin, was arrested at Frankfurt airport last Wednesday on suspicion of belonging to ?an Islamist terrorist organization planning serious violent attacks,?...
A third employee who worked in the AMI publishing building in Boca Raton, Florida, has tested positive for exposure to the anthrax bacteria. The unidentified 35-year-old woman is being treated with antibiotics and is not expected to develop the deadly disease, Florida Health Secretary John Agwunobi says. One employee, Robert Stevens, died of...
The FBI warned eight of California?s leading movie studios that they could be next on the terrorist hit list. Armed guards were patrolled the streets of the studios and crash barriers were in place across roads leading to film lots. Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers were closed to all but essential...
Seven out of ten Americans are reporting that they are depressed after the traumatic incidents of September 11. We are all in need of help and support.Clarissa Pinkola Est
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The FBI is asking all U.S. agricultural-use airplane operators to be on high alert for any suspicious behavior as they fly their crop dusters, for fear that terrorists will try to use them to spread chemical or biological warfare agents. ?The FBI has contacted us and asked us to sensitize our members to any potential threats,? says National...
According to the Times of London, the CIA has asked financial regulators in the UK to investigate the suspicious short-selling of millions of shares of stocks in companies likely to be hurt by the Attack on America in the weeks prior to the attack.
There was unusual short-selling activity in airlines, arms manufacturers, retailers,...
FBI Director Robert Mueller said today that there was no early warning of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last week.
Speaking in a press conference with John Ashcroft, Mueller denied that any individuals on FBI 'watch lists' successfully entered the US.
However, it may be that the FBI had prior knowledge...
Authorities in Massachusetts have arrested at least five Arab men as suspects in yesterday?s terror attacks launched from Logan International Airport in Boston. As with the earlier bombing of the World Trade Center, evidence centers around a rental car.
Authorities seized a car parked in the airport parking garage that had Arabic-...
Whitley Strieber wrote this story a year ago today:The most massive terrorist attack in history unfolded in the United States today. The World Trade Center was destroyed, and the city's Emergency Management Center, Police Headquarters and City Hall were closed. The Emergency Management Center was in the World Trade Center.
Yasir Arafat...