Terror's best friend (U.S. News & World Report)
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U.S. News & World Report - When it comes to terrorists' most valuable weapons, passports and visas probably rank higher than bullets and bombs. Without such documents, terrorists can't easily travel to train, conduct reconnaissance, or prepare for an attack. "They are the greatest tools that terrorists have in their arsenal," says Asa Hutchinson, under secretary for border and transportation security at the Department of Homeland Security. That fact became clear in the aftermath of 9/11, when it was discovered that all 19 of the hijackers had made it into the United States with doctored or suspicious  ...
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With the global spread of high-speed Internet connections and the relative anonymity afforded by the world's biggest and busiest sites, extremists have found a new theatre to display violence and anti-American ...Comment
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The unity that followed the September 11 attacks five years ago was never going to last. But the nation has not merely returned to the messy family arguments of September 10. All wars bring a reckoning of means and ends, and the war on terrorism has long since lost its crisp moral lines. Americans may agree that terrorism is wicked, but they're still unsure about how to answer it.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SYDNEY, Australia -- Nuclear terrorism is a real threat which the world must take immediate action against in
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WASHINGTON - President Bush isn't the only world leader facing doubts about his handling of the war on terror. People in Australia, Italy and Britain also harbor reservations about how well their nation's leaders are holding terrorists at bay...
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Grafting media manipulation onto techno-terror, the latest âDie Hardâ expertly captures a current fear: What if weâre disconnected from our information overload?
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Five years after the September 11   attacks, the United States is safer but "we are not yet safe"   from a significantly degraded but still dangerous al Qaeda   threat, the White House said in a report on Tuesday.
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Terrorism poses the biggest short-term threat to the US economy, a panel of top business economists said in a survey.
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By John Ritter  SAN FRANCISCO -- One of the latest weapons in the war on terrorism is the common bluegill, a freshwater fish found in lakes and streams across the USA.
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The U.S. government raised its threat warning to the highest level for commercial flights from Britain to the United States early Thursday in response to a terror plot disrupted in London. Terrorists had targeted United, American and Continental airlines, two U.S. counterterrorism officials said.
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In the three years since the attacks on America, has the world become less safe? Send us your views.
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Jarret Brachman recently told a class of West Point cadets that many Americans had an unsophisticated image of Islamic terrorists &#151; that they live in caves, "you know, beating the women over their heads." On the contrary, the U.S. is fighting a far more technologically savvy enemy &#151; one adept at both propaganda and Power Point &#151; said Brachman, the director of research at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
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The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq - capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life - have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.    But the plight of the British construction worker and his two murdered American colleagues has also raised new concerns about terrorists' tremendous ability to set agendas in an Internet age that makes their messages - even in the form of shocking beheading videos - all but impossible to stop...
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Strategic conflicts, rampant confusion and election-year politics are slowing the war on terror. A News.com special report.
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TIME.comix on 'The 9/11 Report' and 'The Pride of Baghdad'
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Today's papers look at Wednesday's car bomb in Madrid and the transatlantic relationship
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Investor's Business Daily - War On Terror: A rash of thwarted terrorist attacks timed for 9/11 should remind us of the threat from radical Islam. Fortunately, after a long slumber, our allies in Europe seem to be waking up to the challenge.