2007 ON TERROR ARCHIVE :

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Washington Post, 18 Dec 07, by Dan Eggen and Walter Pincus
FBI, CIA Debate Significance of Terror Suspect
'Al-Qaeda captive Abu Zubaida, whose interrogation videotapes were destroyed by the CIA, remains the subject of a dispute between FBI and CIA officials over his significance as a terrorism suspect and whether his most important revelations came from traditional interrogations or from torture.'

International Herald Tribune, 06 Dec 07, by Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court weighs rights of detainees in Guantánamo Bay
'When it comes to the rights of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, the Supreme Court, and not the president or Congress, will have the last word. That was the clear part of the message to emerge Wednesday from the Supreme Court argument on whether the men held as enemy combatants at the U.S. naval base in Cuba have been provided with constitutionally adequate means to challenge the legality of their detention.'

International Herald Tribune, 22 Nov 07, by Farah Stockman, The Boston Globe
Nationality plays strong role in who gets freed from Guantánamo
'Saudi Arabia has seen more than 100 citizens return from Guantánamo, while Yemen, which lacks close ties to Washington, has had 13 citizens repatriated.'

Christian Science Monitor, 08 Nov 07, by Mark Rice-Oxley
Home-grown terrorist recruitment rising, says British spy chief
'The Brown government unveils plans to curb recruitment in mosques, jails.'

BBC News, 13 Nov 07
Guantanamo detainees freedom fear
'More than 70 prisoners in the American detention camp in Guantanamo Bay do not want to return home fearing what will happen to them ...'

International Herald Tribune, 04 Nov 07, by William Glaberson
U.S. officials considering more rights for Guantánamo detainees
'U.S. officials are considering granting Guantánamo Bay detainees substantially greater rights as part of an effort to close the detention center and possibly move much of its population from Cuba to the United States, according to officials involved in the discussions.'

International Herald Tribune, 30 Oct 07, by Scott Shane
On torture, 2 messages and a high political cost
'Six years after the Bush administration embraced harsh physical tactics for interrogating terrorism suspects, and two years after it reportedly dropped the most extreme of those techniques, the taint of torture clings to American counterterrorism efforts.'

Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct 07, by Peter Grier
Frozen assets: US has crimped Al Qaeda funds
'The CIA estimates that prior to Sept. 11, Al Qaeda was spending about $30 million per year. Since then, the US has seized some $265 million in assets linked to the group.'

International Herald Tribune/AP, 03 Oct 07
Questions arise over terror drill
'The United States is preparing for its biggest anti-terrorism exercise ever next week, a scenario testing the impact if three fictional "dirty bombs" were to go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities and Guam, ... Yet even as this drill begins, details from the previous national exercise held in 2005 have yet to be publicly released - information that is supposed to help officials prepare for the next real attack.'

International Herald Tribune, 02 Oct 07, by Eric Lipton
Remote-control toys on airliners linked to terrorism threats
'Citing "credible specific information" about terrorism tactics, Transportation Security Administration officers across the United States have stepped up their scrutiny of passengers carrying remote-control toys aboard airplanes.'

The National Interest, 11 Sep 07, by J. Peter Pham
Rapid Reaction: Religion and Realism After 9/11
'Two developments at the end of last week underscore just how poorly the nature of the terrorists’ challenge to both the security of the nation-state and the structure of the international system is understood, even by many realists.'

Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep 07, by Peter Grier and Faye Bowers
Al Qaeda: often foiled, still global
'Bin Laden's network has not successfully attacked the US since 2001 but fosters worldwide support for its war of ideas.'

Washington Post, 09 Sep 07, by Craig Whitlock
The New Al-Qaeda Central
'Far from declining, the network has rebuilt, with fresh faces and a vigorous media arm.'

International Herald Tribune, 10 Sep 07, by Souad Mekhennet and Michael Moss
Europeans get terror training inside Pakistan
'The accused conspirators in a bombing plot disrupted last week in Germany were part of what the authorities say is a small, but growing, flow of militants from Germany and other Western countries who are receiving terrorism training at camps in Pakistan.'

International Herald Tribune, 09 Sep 07, by Souad Mekhennet and Nicholas Kulish
U.S. helped Germans thwart bomb plot
'... American intelligence was instrumental in first bringing the plot to the attention of German intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Interceptions of e-mail messages and telephone calls between Germany and both Pakistan and Turkey raised the initial red flags in 2006 ...'

International Herald Tribune, 07 Sep 07, by Mark Landler and Nicholas Kulish
Turkish connection in foiled plot unsettles Germans
'As Germans struggle to make sense of the terrorist plot foiled this week, they are learning that their good Muslims - the large Turkish immigrant population here - may not all be so good. One of the three militants arrested Tuesday and accused of planning major bomb attacks against American and German targets is a Turkish man who lives in Germany, and security officials said Friday that three, and possibly more, of the suspects still being sought are of Turkish origin.'

International Herald Tribune/AP, 07 Sep 07
CIA chief defends detention of terrorism suspects
'CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden praised the U.S. government's much-criticized program of detaining and interrogating terrorism suspects Friday, crediting it for most of the information in a July intelligence report on the terrorist threat to America.'

International Herald Tribune/AP, 07 Sep 07, by Paul Haven, AP
Bin Laden's key message is that he's still out there, analysts say
'Analysts said that the videotape that came out Friday, just days before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, was more about timing than substance, an attempt by America's most wanted fugitive to thumb his nose at the forces arrayed against him, and remind the world that he has not been caught.'

Time Magazine, 05 Sep 07, by Andrew Purvis
German Plot Signals al-Qaeda Revival
'The foiling of two separate terror plots against targets in Europe in the space of just 12 hours suggests that al-Qaeda and its sympathizers are ramping up their terror activities on the continent.'

Asia Times, 06 Sep 07, by Syed Saleem Shahzad
The Pakistani road to German terror
'The three men arrested in Germany this week on suspicion of planning "massive" attacks on US interests in the country have been linked to training camps in Pakistan. Their likely commander there is al-Qaeda's Abu Hanifah, who operates in the North Waziristan tribal area, where al-Qaeda has re-established itself and where the US would dearly like to strike.'

International Herald Tribune, 05 Sep 07, by Brian Knowlton
U.S. sees continuing threat, but not a domestic one
'U.S. officials said Wednesday that the terrorism arrests in Germany offered striking proof that the risks to Western countries from groups linked to Al Qaeda remained "very much unabated."'

International Herald Tribune, 15 Aug 07, by Al Baker and John Holusha
New York Police study cites danger of homegrown terrorism
'The potential for homegrown terror, particularly among disaffected immigrants, was the focus of a new study by the New York Police Department. It concluded that there is some danger from unassimilated Muslims, but less so than in some European countries.'

Reuters, 16 Aug 07, by Randall Mikkelsen
CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits
'People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program. The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday.'

Washington Post, 13 Aug 07, by Darryl Fears
U.S. Anti-Terrorism Laws Hold Up Asylum Seekers
'More than seven months after the Bush administration promised help to a group of foreign nationals whose applications for asylum or refugee status have been hindered by strict interpretation of anti-terrorism laws, only a handful of the applicants have had their cases resolved.'

International Herald Tribune/AP, 09 Aug 07
14 'high-value' terror suspects may be tried, U.S. says
'The 14 "high-value" detainees who were transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, last year have all been declared enemy combatants and are subject to trial, the Defense Department said Thursday. The detainees, including suspected planners of the Sept. 11 attacks, the USS Cole bombing and the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, will now be thrust into a military trial system mired in legal challenges and hampered by lengthy delays.'

The New Yorker, 13 Aug 07 issue, by Jane Mayer
The Black Sites
'A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program.'

International Herald Tribune, 06 Aug 07, by Jim Rutenberg
Bush unchallenged on issue of terror
'... the congressional vote that authorized eavesdropping without warrants on the international communications of Americans has shown that there is at least one arena in which Bush can still hold the line: terrorism.'

ThreatWatch.org, 11 Apr 07, by Steve Schippert
Dangerous Liaisons
'... it is absolutely critical that the West -- and the American public in particular -- understand that, unlike the way the American political landscape so often appears, our terrorist enemies are often more willing to lay aside their fundamental and substantive differences for the purposes of engaging a mutual enemy. There is no greater example of this than the cooperation between Sunni al-Qaeda leadership and that of Shi'a Hizballah and their Iranian masters.'

International Herald Tribune, 27 Jul 07, by Raymond Bonner
British report criticizes U.S. on abductions
'... a report by a high-level parliamentary committee sharply criticized the Bush administration's practice of abducting terrorism suspects for interrogation in other countries, and found that in one case the Americans had showed a lack of concern for the British, their closest ally.'

International Herald Tribune/AP, 30 Jul 07
No proof Britain needs tougher terrorism laws, Parliament report says
'The British government has failed to prove the need to toughen anti-terrorism laws to let the police detain suspects longer before they must charge or release them, a group of lawmakers said in a report Monday.'

Social Science Research Network, by Gregory S. McNeal, Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
Cyber Embargo: Countering the Internet Jihad
'Terrorists are engaged in an online jihad, characterized by the use of the internet to fundraise, distribute messages and directives, recruit and proselytize. It is impossible to shut down the entire presence of terrorists on the internet; however, ... Using existing statutes, it is possible to regionalize terrorist websites, limiting them to an extremely small number of countries from which they may receive internet services.'

NBC, 24 Jul 07
TSA: Terrorists May Be Conducting Preattack Security Probes
'In a new intelligence bulletin obtained by NBC News, the Transportation Security Administration is warning law-enforcement and airport officials that terrorists "may be" conducting "preattack security probes" at U.S. airports.'

National Interest, 23 Jul 07, by J. Peter Pham
Degrees of Enmity and the "War on Terrorism"
'Without excusing violence on U.S. personnel or interests in any way -- much less giving justification to terrorists -- among the factors which ought to be considered is the Schmittian distinction between defensive-oriented acts by "real enemies" and the global, revolutionary ambitions of "absolute enemies."'

International Herald Tribune, 22 Jul 07, by David Rieff
Brown drops 'war on terror,' redefining the fight
'When terrorists tried to blow up civilians in London and Glasgow, Gordon Brown, the new British prime minister, responded in his own distinctive way. ... Brown instructed his ministers that the phrase "war on terror" was no longer to be used and, indeed, that officials were no longer even to employ the word "Muslim" in connection with the terrorism crisis.'

International Herald Tribune, 18 Jul 07, by Mark Mazzetti and David E. Sanger
U.S. intelligence advisors see failure in fight with Al Qaeda in Pakistan
'President George W. Bush's top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden's leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new intelligence assessment that has forced the administration to consider more aggressive measures inside Pakistan.'

Washington Post, 20 Jul 07, by Susan Schmidt
Trail of an 'Enemy Combatant': From Desert to U.S. Heartland
'Details emerge about Marri's alleged role in 'second wave' of Al-Qaeda attacks.'

International Herald Tribune, 15 Jul 07, by Hassan M. Fattah
Islam's best, brightest and (increasingly) radical
'They were some of the best and brightest in the Muslim world who toiled for years in pursuit of knowledge. Now they stand accused of seeking mass murder. ... The question being asked in many educated and official circles is this: How could such acts be committed by people who have supposedly dedicated their lives to scientific rationalism and to helping others?'

Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jul 07, by Peter Grier
Why US sees Al Qaeda as a growing threat
'With a haven in Pakistan, the terror group is boosting funding and training, US agencies say.'

Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jul 07, by Dan Murphy and Jill Carroll
Al Qaeda ramps up its propaganda
'The bin Laden video is the latest of the group's 2007 media blitz: 63 messages, so far.'

Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jul 07, by Mark Sappenfield and Mark Rice-Oxley
Global terror's India connection
'The Glasgow attack is the first known act of global terror involving an Indian Muslim.'

Washington Post, 07 Jul 07, by Craig Whitlock
In Morocco's 'Chemist,' A Glimpse of Al-Qaeda
'On March 6, Moroccan police surrounded a cybercafe here and arrested a fugitive who many people assumed had fled the country or was dead. Saad al-Houssaini, known as "the Chemist" because of his scientific training and bombmaking skills, had vanished four years earlier after he was accused of helping to organize the deadliest terrorist attack in Moroccan history.'

Washington Post, 10 Jul 07, by Mary Jordan
Interpol Chief Calls U.K. Lax In Terror Fight
'The head of the international police cooperation agency Interpol said Monday that British anti-terrorist efforts are "in the wrong century" and faulted officials here for failing to share information on terrorism suspects.'

International Herald Tribune, 09 Jul 07, by Judy Dempsey
German interior minister urges tougher anti-terror laws
'Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble on Monday called for new laws in Germany to fight terrorism, proposing special detention centers for "combatants" and even suggesting that it was appropriate to kill a terrorist suspect.'

International Herald Tribune, 08 Jul 07, by Anand Giridharadas and Eamon Quinn
Questions arise about origins of terror plot in Britain
Investigators are still trying to establish whether the Qaeda terrorist network was involved, either from abroad or at home. They are also looking for what could motivate people in top professions to turn toward terrorism.

International Herald Tribune, 09 Jul 07, by Anand Giridharadas
British terror suspect worked in jet design
'Kafeel Ahmed, identified by the police as one of two main suspects in the British car bomb plot, worked for much of last year as an aeronautical engineer for an Indian outsourcing company that designs aircraft parts for clients including Boeing and Airbus.'

Washington Post, 05 Jul 07, by Craig Whitlock
Homemade, Cheap and Dangerous
'The 39-page memo recovered from an al-Qaeda laptop computer in Pakistan three years ago read like an Idiot's Guide to Bombmaking. Forget military explosives or fancy detonators, it lectured. Instead, the manual advised a shopping trip to a hardware store or pharmacy, where all the necessary ingredients for a terrorist attack are stocked on the shelves.'

Christian Science Monitor, 21 Jun 07, by Alexandra Marks
As FBI fights terrorism, other prosecutions drop
'FBI mission change brought 30 percent fewer cases to court since 9/11, including drug, organized-crime, and white-collar crime charges.'

Christian Science Monitor, 21 Jun 07, by David Cook
Homeland Security chief: US growing complacent on terrorism
'Michael Chertoff says Americans are 'starting to be unwilling' to make the needed sacrifices to repel attacks.'

International Herald Tribune, 19 Jun 07, by Mark T. Mazzetti and Scott Shane
Hearing to assess lawyer's role in CIA interrogation methods
'In the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, at a time when the CIA had long been out of the interrogation business, senior agency officers scrambled to build a program to question terror suspects in secret jails abroad.'

Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jun 07, by Dan Murphy
Indonesia, Saudi Arabia make gains against Islamist militants
'US training pays off in fight against Al Qaeda, but cause for concern about terrorism still remains.'

Wall Street Journal, 14 Jun 07, by Craig Karmin
Missouri Treasurer's Demand: 'Terror-Free' Pension Funds
[subscription only] 'Sarah Steelman, the Missouri state treasurer, is emerging as a thorn in the side of a set of powerful global investors. As pension funds face pressure from politicians to divest themselves from Iran and other countries deemed terrorism sponsors, she has staked out a zero-tolerance approach to investments like these. That's given the 49-year-old Republican a prominent voice in the wave of new legislation -- from Ohio to California -- targeting the $1 trillion pension-fund industry.'

Washington Post, 06 June 07, by Josh White and Shailagh Murray
Guantanamo Ruling Renews The Debate Over Detainees
'The decision by U.S. military judges on Monday to dismiss the war crimes charges against two detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has reignited a debate over how to try those accused of terrorism, prompting members of Congress to challenge the Bush administration over a legal system that they say denies proper rights to detainees and has yet to bring a single case to trial.'

New York Times, 05 Jun 07, by William Glaberson
Military Judges Dismiss Charges for 2 Detainees
'The government's new system for trying Guantánamo detainees was thrown into turmoil Monday, when military judges in separate decisions dismissed war crimes charges against two of the detainees.'

Christian Science Monitor, 04 Jun 07, by Alexandra Marks
JFK plot derailed
'Charges in an alleged plot at JFK airport show FBI emphasis on intelligence-gathering.'

Washington Post, 01 Jun 07, by Josh White
Detainee Found Dead Trained With U.S. Forces
'A detainee found dead in his cell at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday was a Saudi army veteran who trained with U.S. forces before fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to military hearing records.'

Congressional Research Service, 23 Jan 07
Treatment of "Battlefield Detainees" in the War on Terrorism
'This report provides an overview of the law of war and the historical treatment of wartime detainees, in particular the U.S. practice; describes how the detainees' status might affect their rights and treatment; and summarizes activity of the 108th and 109th Congresses related to detention in connection with the war against terrorism. The report also summarizes legislative proposals in the 110th Congress, including H.R. 1 and H.R. 267.'

NPR 'Morning Edition', 31 May 07, by Peter Kenyon
Concern Grows over Terrorism in Morocco
[audio] 'A series of suicide bombings in the north African nation of Morocco, including one outside the U.S. Consulate in the capital Casablanca, has authorities on edge. They worry that severe poverty and the growing strength of Islamic political parties is breeding terrorism.'

New York Times, 28 May 07, by Michael Moss and Souad Mekhennet
Militants Widen Reach as Terror Seeps Out of Iraq
'The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters and the tactics they have honed in the insurgency to neighboring countries and beyond, according to American, European and Middle Eastern government officials and interviews with militant leaders in Lebanon, Jordan and London.'

The White House, 23 May 07
Fact Sheet: Keeping America Safe from Attack
'Our intelligence community reports that bin Laden then tasked one of his top terrorist operatives, Hamza Rabia to send Zarqawi a briefing on al Qaeda's external operations, including information about operations against the American homeland.'

Washington Post, 20 May 07, by Walter Pincus
Terrorism Work to Be Unaffected by Climate Review
'A proposed intelligence assessment on climate change and its impact on national security will not divert analysts or collectors from working on issues related to Iraq, Afghanistan or terrorism, according to a senior intelligence official.'

International Herald Tribune, 15 May 07, by Abby Goodnough
After 5 years, Padilla goes on trial in terror case
'The trial of Jose Padilla, the American convert to Islam charged with conspiring to support terrorism, opened Monday with U.S. prosecutors describing what they called a calculated plan to provide money, equipment and recruits to Al Qaeda.'

Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 07, by Warren Richey
A first look at US case against Padilla
'The trial begins Monday in US court for the American – and alleged terror conspirator – held for five years.'

International Herald Tribune, 09 May 07, by David Kocieniewski
Plot against army base in New Jersey is called dangerous and clumsy
'The six men charged with plotting to attack a U.S. Army base have been described by officials as representing the newest breed of threat to the United States: loosely organized domestic militants unconnected to international terrorist groups but inspired by them.'

Washington Post, 10 May 07, by Anthony Faiola and Dale Russakoff
The Terrorists Next Door?
'Experts have warned that the next big terrorist threat will come from homegrown extremists, unaffiliated with al Qaeda but harboring resentments fostered by materials easily available from the Internet. In fact, the few who have shown themselves thus far prove that there is no stereotype.'

Military.com, 04 May 07, by Oliver North
Terror, Inc.
'This week the State Department published its annual "Country Reports on Terrorism." For those who want facts about the radical Islamic Jihad being waged against the west, it's fascinating reading. For simpering solons in Congress, slithering back up Capitol Hill with their vetoed "surrender supplemental," it is bad news. And for those with any grasp of history, it's déjà vu.'

National Review Online 'The Tank', 03 May 07, by W. Thomas Smith Jr.
Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection: What Do We Really Know?
'Much has been written about whether or not there was a connection between al Qaeda and Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion of 2003. Of course, the connection is certainly there now, and opponents of the war have argued that our invasion led to the introduction of al Qaeda into that country. Proponents of our efforts have just as easily argued that because of our presence in Iraq, we now have much of al Qaeda's global resources on ground of our own choosing.'

International Herald Tribune, 03 May 07, by Souad Mekhennet and Michael Moss
The making of martyrs, the training of terrorists
'Zarqa has been known as a cradle of Islamic militancy since the beginning Iraq war. It was the home of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia who was killed last summer. Today it is a breeding ground for would-be jihadists like Abu Ibrahim and five of his friends who left about the same time last fall bound for Iraq.'

BBC News, 01 May 07
Terror attacks increase, says US
'The number of people killed around the world in terror attacks rose by 40% last year to more than 20,000, the US State Department has said.'

BBC News, 01 May 07
US court rejects Guantanamo case
'The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a case lodged by two Guantanamo Bay prisoners who sought to challenge the legality of US military courts. ... The decision forced US President George W Bush to return to Congress to obtain the legal authority to continue with the system of military tribunals.'

Christian Science Monitor, 01 May 07, by Jill Carroll
How did Al Qaeda emerge in North Africa?
'A briefing on the violent rise of a new-old jihadist group in Algeria.'

Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr 07, by Dan Murphy
New Saudi tack on Al Qaeda
'The arrest of 172 suspected militants reveals a Saudi public that is helping in the fight against the terrorist group.'

Washington Post, 27 Apr 07, by Carol D. Leonnig
U.S. Wants to Limit Guantanamo Detainees' Access to Lawyers
'The Bush administration is urging a federal appeals court to clamp down on Guantanamo Bay prisoners' ability to see their attorneys and obtain government records to help argue their innocence.'

Bloomberg, 24 Apr 07, by Nick Allen and Robert Hutton
Al-Qaeda Remains Ready to Strike in U.K., Police Chief Warns
'Britain's most senior counter- terrorism police officer says al-Qaeda has survived attempts by law enforcement agencies to smash its network in the U.K. and warned of a continued threat that is "deadly" and "enduring."'

International Herald Tribune, 17 Apr 07, by Jane Perlez
'War on terror' phrase emboldens extremists, Briton says
'A senior politician in Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party said that the Bush administration's commonly used phrase "war on terror" strengthens extremists. ... Benn, who is the international development secretary in the Blair government, said it would be more beneficial for the United States to use the "soft power" of values and ideas as well as military prowess to defeat extremists.'

International Herald Tribune/AP, 16 Apr 07
French intelligence agency heard early rumblings of a Qaeda plot
'The French foreign intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that Al Qaeda was preparing a hijacking plot that would quite likely involve a U.S. aircraft, former intelligence officials said Monday, confirming a report that also said the CIA had received the warning.'

International Herald Tribune, 04 Apr 07, by Anthony Mitchell, AP
U.S. interrogating terror suspects in Ethiopian prisons
'U.S. agents hunting for Al Qaeda militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from several countries held at prisons in Ethiopia, according to American officials.'

International Herald Tribune, 03 Apr 07, by Mark Mazzetti
A new generation of Al Qaeda leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden
'As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan's tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over its operations, U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials say.'

Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar 07, by Arthur Bright
US terrorist watchlist flags 'ordinary people' in error
'New report says citizens are denied commercial services because their names are similar to those of suspected criminals.'

Washington Post, 29 Mar 07, by Peter Finn
Rights Group Challenges Assurances On Torture
'Human Rights Watch on Wednesday challenged the value of "diplomatic assurances" routinely obtained by the United States from other governments that inmates returned home from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be treated humanely.'

Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar 07, by Carol J. Williams
Guantanamo Bay tribunals to begin again
'Australian terrorism suspect to be arraigned today. Critics say the revamped trial system is still flawed.'

Turkish Weekly, 21 Mar 07, by Sedat Laciner
US' Combat Against 'Global Terrorism'
[opinion] 'If the direct challenge against the Islamic values could not lure the Muslim peoples to strongly oppose the Al Qaeda terrorism, the terrorists attacks directed to the Muslim states (Gulf countries, etc.) should have been enough to put the Muslim masses off feeling attracted to the terrorists.'

International Herald Tribune, 16 Mar 07, by Souad Mekhennet and Michael Moss
New small terror groups mark Al Qaeda resurgence
'... Abssi's organization is the image of what intelligence officials have warned is the re-emergence of Al Qaeda. Shattered after 2001, the organization founded by Osama bin Laden is reforming as an alliance of small groups around the world that share a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam but have developed their own independent terror capabilities, these officials said.'

Washington Post, 15 Mar 07, by Josh White
Alleged Architect Of 9/11 Confesses To Many Attacks
'Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, confessed at a Guantanamo Bay military hearing that he planned and funded that al-Qaeda operation and said he was involved in more than two dozen other terrorist acts around the world, according to documents released by the Pentagon yesterday.'

Washington Post, 12 Mar 07, by Craig Whitlock
Terrorists Proving Harder to Profile
'European Officials Say Traits of Suspected Islamic Extremists Are Constantly Shifting'

National Public Radio, 09 Mar 07, by Steve Inskeep and Ted Koppel
Surveying the Spread of the War on Terror
'Gen. George Abizaid, head of U.S. Central Command, has referred to the U.S. efforts to thwart terrorism as "The Long War." In fact, the war could last for generations.'

Yahoo! News/The Associated Press, 28 Feb 07, by Rob Gillies
Canada's House scraps terrorism measures
'The Canadian parliament voted Tuesday to end two anti-terror measures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, one that allowed for preventive arrests and another that permitted forced testimony.'

Washington Times, 26 Feb 07, by Sean Rayment, London Sunday Telegraph
Intelligence report reassesses threat of al Qaeda
'Al Qaeda has established a foothold in most countries across North Africa and the Middle East and poses a far graver threat to Britain than previously thought, according to a report being circulated among British security departments.'

Asia Times, 27 Feb 07, by Martin I Wayne
Al-Qaeda's China problem
'Al-Qaeda has a China problem, and no one is watching. Despite al-Qaeda's significant efforts to support Muslim insurgents in China, Beijing has succeeded in limiting popular support for anti-government violence.'

Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb 07, by Robert Marquand
Europe's rising unease over 'terror war'
'Charges in Italy against suspected CIA agents highlight growing dissent on America's antiterror tactics.'

International Herald Tribune, 19 Feb 07, by Mark Mazzetti and David Rohde
Signs of Qaeda resurgence
'Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.'

The New York Sun/AP, 16 Feb 07, by Larry Neumeister
Terrorism Charges for New Yorker
'Terrorism charges brought Friday against the administrator of a loan investment program alleged that he secretly tried to send $152,000 to buy equipment such as night vision goggles for a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.'

ECanadaNow, 09 Feb 07
US To Test Nuclear Detection Device In New York
'New York will become the first site for testing new machines that could detect nuclear devices or radio-active "dirty bombs," as part of efforts by the United States to repel possible terrorist attacks.'

Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb 07, by Simon Montlake
Where US is helping to make gains against terrorism
'Recent developments in the southern Philippines offer a degree of hope to Pentagon planners.'

CBC News, 14 Feb 07
European countries helped the CIA move terror suspects
'The European Parliament approved a report on Wednesday that accuses 14 European governments of allowing the U.S. to remove and transfer suspected extremists to CIA secret prisons. The report says the countries, including Britain, Germany and Italy, turned a blind eye when the CIA forcibly removed suspects from their soil and put them on secret flights to countries where they could be tortured.'

Washington Post, 08 Feb 07, by Karen DeYoung
Distrust Hinders FBI In Outreach to Muslims
'The FBI's worst fears that hidden homegrown terrorist groups could take root in this country were fanned here in the summer of 2005, when four young Muslim men were charged with conspiring "to levy war against the United States" via deadly attacks on military installations and synagogues in Southern California.'

The Ottawa Citizen, 01 Feb 07, by Ian MacLeod
Alleged kidnapping plot reflects new type of terrorism, experts say
'A new form of psychological terror has been introduced with the alleged terrorist plot to kidnap and kill a home-based British soldier and broadcast his execution on the Internet.'

The Sacramento Bee, 07 Feb 07, by Stephen Magagnini
Speech by self-proclaimed ex-terrorist protested at UCD
'Walid Shoebat - a pseudonym that the author uses because, he says, he has received death threats - says he once subscribed to Islamic terrorism but realized it was wrong and now speaks against it at such venues as UC Davis, where he spoke Tuesday.'

Christian Science Monitor, 01 Feb 07, by Carol Huang
Al Qaeda 2006: Fighting in Iraq, regrouping in Afghanistan, enlisting in Europe
'An assessment of some of last year's most significant gains and losses for the terrorist organization.'

Family Security Matters, 29 Jan 07
A Clear and Present Danger: Are College Students at Risk in The "War on Terror"?
'Family Security Matters has investigated whether the pre-9/11 college campus has adjusted to the changed reality of a world where the U.S. is vulnerable to attack and whether the college environment promotes independent inquiry into the facts and values necessary for the global realities of today and the uncertainties of tomorrow.'

The New Yorker, 22 Jan 07 issue, by Raffi Khatchadourian
Azzam the American
'The making of an Al Qaeda homegrown : Adam Gadahn, the first American to be charged with treason in more than fifty years, was born in Oregon, grew up in rural California, and converted to Islam at the age of seventeen. He is now twenty-eight. No one who knew him before his religious awakening ever thought that he would join Al Qaeda, and many people who knew him after he did are still perplexed.'

The Age (Australia), 09 Jan 07, by Julia May
Brown to break with Blair on terror
'Britain's prime minister in waiting has vowed to take on President George Bush over foreign policy as he spells out plans to break from Tony Blair's approach to the war on terror. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, who is on course to succeed Mr Blair as prime minister this year, wants to put Britain's interest above the relationship with Washington.'

International Herald Tribune/AP, 06 Jan 07
Report: British army to guard energy facilities against possible terror attacks
'A Sunday newspaper reported that the army will be deployed at British oil, gas and electricity facilities to defend them from possible terrorist attacks.'