State Dept. Losing a Top Figure In Terror War
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Henry A. "Hank" Crumpton, the chief of the State Department's counterterrorism office and a key strategist in the war in Afghanistan, will announce today that he is leaving government in the new year, a senior State Department official said yesterday.
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A US State Department official calls for action to find those responsible for a wave of terror in Bangladesh.
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A Bush administration official whose department had government workers pose as journalists in a news conference has been dropped from a planned new job as media chief for the top U.S. spy agency.
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R. Nicholas Burns, long one of the most high-profile diplomats at the State Department, is resigning and will be replaced by U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Burns, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Friday.
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The Bush administrationâs decision makes Gen. Peter Pace the highest-ranking officer to be a political casualty of the issue of Iraq.
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CAIRO, Egypt Sept. 9, 2004 - In a videotape made public ahead of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden&#39;s chief deputy claimed Thursday the United States was on the brink of defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major blow in the war on terror in March 2003: The government had charged a Muslim cleric with personally handing $20 million to Osama bin Laden.
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WASHINGTON (CP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, a moderate voice among cabinet hardliners who remained popular despite a global tide of anti-Americanism sparked by the Iraq war, is stepping down as the top US diplomat.
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President Bush spoke as if al-Qaida leaves senior positions vacant when its top operatives are taken down, boasting in his debate with John Kerry that three-quarters of the terrorist network's leaders are gone. His Democratic opponent spoke as if only the rich got a tax cut under Bush, when in fact taxpayers in all income groups did.
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The US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, said Thursday that Al Qaeda is 'simply gone' from some areas.
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U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman, the No. 3 State Department official, has submitted his resignation, a U.S. official said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON: US homeland security secretary Tom Ridge, whose name became synonymous with colour-coded terror alerts and tutorials about how to prepare for possible attack, resigned Tuesday.
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A senior al-Qaida figure, described as one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants, has reportedly been killed
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Top police official, who dealt with terrorist bombings, is among the dead.
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J. Cofer Black, the State Department official in charge of counterterrorism, is leaving government in the next few weeks.
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The lesson to learn about the duties of a secretary of state when the issue involves taking our country to war is that the duty to be a team player for the administration is trumped by the secretary&#39;s obligation to the country.
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President Bush's point man for  international terrorism policy has quit several months after  botching a major report, the most well-known figure known to  have resigned since Bush's re-election.