City had awaited attack since 9/11
Brian Paddick, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, summed up the critical difference between the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and the bombs that went...
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Blasts point to Al Qaeda
A rapid claim of responsibility for Thursday's bombings by a shadowy Al Qaeda faction was intriguing but far from provable. It offers a hint of the difficulty authorities will face...
No regrets in war on terrorism
"I think that the war on terror, if it's a war, then it has to be treated as a war." Ahmed Nazief, the Egyptian prime minister, recently explained to a...
Wife was left behind with the children
Last week, a tearful Marsela Nasr sat down in a Balkan cafe and poured out her woes to a journalist. In the back of the cafe, a television flickered. Italian...
Abducted imam aided CIA ally
Among the multiple mysteries swirling around the abduction of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Italy, one stands out as by far the most perplexing. Why would the U.S. government go...
9/11 suspect cut unlikely figure in terror plot
Shortly before midnight a day after the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history, German police on the trail of the conspirators showed up at a Hamburg apartment next to the...
Germany convicts Moroccan in 9/11 plot
A 28-year-old Moroccan who was a close associate of three of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots Wednesday became the first person to be convicted anywhere in the world for playing...
Real clues to plot have been elusive
An elderly pensioner hobbles past, followed by a scruffy teenager riding a bicycle and drinking a bottle of beer, and a young girl skipping down the sidewalk on a glorious...
Bin Laden-linked bank not on U.S. terror list
Osama bin Laden's global financial network continued to come under scrutiny this week after Swiss authorities froze two dozen bank accounts totaling $12 million linked to individuals on the Bush...
A mysterious visit to Spain
Just eight weeks before he allegedly hijacked a Boeing 767 into the north tower of New York City's World Trade Center, Mohamed Atta checked into the Hotel Casablanca Playa, on...