Terrorism and Security: a Daily Update
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Bush Administration seeks upbeat reports, will 'curtail' bad news.
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Major attacks have continued in recent days, including several apparent efforts to sow divisions between groups.
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WASHINGTON -- The White House expressed concern yesterday about recent indications of a heightened terrorist threat and said such signals point to a greater need to promote the benefits of democracy.
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Terrorists today would have a tougher time plotting and carrying out attacks like the ones of Sept. 11 because of security improvements in the past five years, President Bush said Thursday.
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A new National Intelligence Estimate raises concerns that the terrorist group is growing stronger.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (11/11/04) - Seven people have been arrested following a 15-hour anti-terror operation by Dutch police forces, ending a standoff with suspected Islamic terrorists that lasted all day Wednesday.
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DHS wants to build a portable lab to set up at events and transit hubs to test ways to detect terrorists using remote sensors and pyschological techniques.  Will your thoughts be clean enough to board the train? In 27B Stroke 6.
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(InfoWorld) - Jihadists now have their own security magazine. "Technical Mujahid," a 64-page electronic magazine began circulating earlier this week on jihadist discussion forums, said Adam Raisman, an analyst with the SITE (Search for International Terrorist Entities) Institute, a terrorist tracking organization. SITE, based in Washington, has published an analysis of the new publication. The magazine is distributed by the al-Fajr Information Center, a group that in the past has distributed jihadist videos, according to SITE. The magazine's editors say their publication comes in response to a call for technical support from Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, who is reportedly al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq. Their purpose is "to help prevent acts of aggression against Muslims [in cyberspace], and to assist the mujahideen in their efforts," according to a translation provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute. "The Internet provides a golden opportunity... for the mujahideen to break the siege placed upon them by the media of the Crusaders and their followers in the Muslim countries, and to use [the Internet] for [the sake of] jihad and the victory of the faith," the translation states. Like early hacking magazines, Technical Mujahid takes information that has already been published in discussion forums and Web sites and compiles it into one single source, Raisman said. It represents an evolution in the jihadist's documentation of computer security information, he added. "It's interesting to see it in a magazine format, where everything is all included." Technical Mujahid's first issue, published Tuesday, contains articles on encryption, video encoding, global positioning systems, and how to use virtual machine technology to conceal files, Raisman said. Future issues will cover topics such as concealing one's identity on the Internet and how to set up a jihadi Web site, he said. Interestingly, Technical Mujahid does not provide technical information on how to conduct online attacks -- a subject that was put front and center in the U.S. this week, when the Department of Homeland Security's United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) warned that Islamic militants were threatening to attack U.S. financial institutions during the month of December. The magazine shows that militants share many of the same security concerns as many IT professionals, said Marcus Sachs, deputy director with research group SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. "Western media only covers the story that the jihadists are out to destroy us," he said. "In fact they're just as worried about Internet security in the same way were are." Â
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Candidates focus on terrorism in reaction to assassination of Bhutto ... Poll: Many voters still bouncing among presidential candidates, especially on GOP side
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Two plots foiled in a single day suggests that extremist terror networks are growing more active in Europe
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We should be feeling safer right now. British officials appear to  have foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 U.S.-bound passenger jets  with liquid explosives hidden in carry-on luggage. Then why did it feel so bad?
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* Israel seals off West Bank and Gaza Strip to prevent violence. Militant group Hamas vows to keep up attacks. * Israeli soldiers kill four Palestinians.
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Weapons of mass destruction, small boats packed with explosives and Islamic radicalization are the greatest terrorist threats facing the country, top U.S. security officials said Monday on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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It's funny how many times over the past three years that "terrorist" threats have popped up whenever the Bush administration either wants something or is trying to distract people from its problems.
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The government is considering new tough anti-terrorism laws to prevent an al Qaeda attack including plans to target suspects even if they have not committed an offence, Home Secretary David Blunkett will say today.
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Remarks prepared for Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy
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UN report says threat from Al-Qaeda related terrorism remains as great as ever, UN-led sanctions are not working. By Marc Carnegie - UNITED NATIONS.