North Korea Purchases 100 Tons of Sodium Cyanide

A South Korean company illegally sold more than 100 tonnes of a potentially lethal chemical to the North last year, according to South Korean officials.

They said sodium cyanide was illegally exported via China to a North Korean trading firm.

The substance normally has agricultural or industrial uses, but can also be turned into a deadly nerve agent.

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Feds Concerned U.S. Terror Attack in Works

Federal officials are increasingly concerned that a terrorist attack is being planned for the weeks prior to the Nov. 2 presidential election.

“Every day there is new information that raises the level of anxiety,” said one law enforcement official who declined to be identified. The concern, based on intelligence reporting of multiple sources, is that the plots or plot may be in the final stages of planning and ready to be executed at any time, the official said.

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US expert sketches nightmare nuclear terrorist attack on major city

A trained nuclear engineer using material the size of an orange could build an atomic bomb to fit into a van, proliferation expert Laura Holgate said, sketching a nightmare scenario of a terrorist attack on a major city.

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High Ranking Member of al-Zarqawi’s Terrorist Group Killed

The head of the legislative body of the al-Tawhid and al-Jihad group, responsible for the capture and beheading of two Americans, has been killed in Iraq.

Iraqi sources said Umar Yusuf Jumaa, also known as Abu Anas al-Shami, was killed on Friday in a US air strike targeting his vehicle in Abu Ghraib, Iraq

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Terrorists Claim:Two Italian Women Hostages Killed

An Islamist group in Iraq has said it killed two female Italian hostages in a statement posted on an Internet site not often used by Iraqi militants.

The group, calling itself the Jihad Organization, said it had killed the women after Italy did not heed its call to withdraw its forces from Iraq. A group with a similar name, the Islamic Jihad Organization, said on September 12 that it would kill the hostages in 24 hours if Italian troops did not leave Iraq.

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Extra security at U.S. Consulate in Karachi after tip-off about female suicide attack threat

Police beefed up security outside the U.S. Consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday after receiving a tip that female suicide bombers might target it, the deputy police chief said.

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Hostage’s Family Confirms Body Was His

The family of American hostage Jack Hensley has received confirmation that the headless body handed over to U.S. officials in Iraq is his, a family spokesman said Wednesday. Hensley was purportedly slain the day before by al-Qaida-linked militants seeking the release of all Iraqi women prisoners.

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Cell Phone Toy Shows Picture Of Osama Bin Laden

Channel 9 has discovered another controversial toy. A local mother took a closer look at the toy and realized something wasn’t right. It’s a toy cell phone with a picture of Osama bin Laden on it with one word above it, “King.”

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Al Qaeda seen planning for ’spectacular’ attack

U.S. intelligence agencies concluded recently that al Qaeda fearing its credibility is on the line is moving ahead with plans for a major, “spectacular” attack, despite disruptions of some operations by recent arrests in Britain and Pakistan.

Officials said recent intelligence assessments of the group, which is blamed for the September 11 attacks, state that an attack is coming and that the danger will remain high until the Nov. 2 elections and last until Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.Read More

Video Shows Beheading of American

A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American construction contractor Eugene Armstrong .

The group led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage either another American or a Briton held by the group will be killed in 24 hours unless all Muslim women prisoners are released from U.S. military jails.

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Bin Laden’s new butchers

Al Qaedas new torchbearers are on the march. The next generation of Islamist leaders is more determined, more ruthless and far more dangerous than its predecessors. And the world is just getting to know them.

The chilling prophecy was delivered last week by a panel of the world’s leading counter-terrorist experts, who have, since the events of 9/11, watched al-Qa’ida shift like sand dunes in a desert storm.

“What they have in store for us is probably more than any of us could bear,” one security official told a closed session of the Terrorism’s Global Impact summit in Tel Aviv.

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Al Qaeda third in command is running terror cells

A Libyan hunted by Pakistan because of his senior role in the al Qa’eda terrorist network has taken charge of its sleeper cells in Britain and the United States, Pakistani intelligence officials believe.

Abu Faraj al Libbi, said to have taken over as third in command of al Qa’eda when his mentor, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was captured last year, has sent coded messages to “several” Islamic militants in Britain over the past 10 months, according to Pakistani officials.

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Al Qaeda May Be Planning Biological or Chemical Attack In U.S.

Pakistani authorities have reportedly discovered an al Qaeda memo that warns of suicide attackers using weapons of mass destruction on Americans in the near future.

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Additional Story

The report quotes a “well-connected source in Islamabad� as having told Western diplomats that the captured document included phrases not immediately and correctly analysed. One such phrase says: “Aamaliat b’anika.� It was later learned that “b’anika� actually means “Panica,� or “panic,� and “Aamaliat� means “operation.� Experts on terror attempts to hit the US with WMDs further analysed the sentence and associated it to a 1968 Hollywood production titled “Panic in the City.� The movie describes in detail a terrorist plan to build a nuclear bomb by using easily available materials and working in the basement of a Los Angeles home. In the movie, an agent sacrifices his life to fly the bomb away from the city to the open ocean where it explodes, sparing Los Angeles.

Internet Chat Foils Alleged Plot To Attack High School

A 17-year-old Michigan teenager is accused of plotting a Columbine-like attack on a high school after police say the plan was foiled by a man thousands of miles away.

Police said Andrew Osantowski (pictured, right) made threats over the Internet to bomb Chippewa Valley High School in Clinton Township, Mich. Investigators executed a search warrant on the boy’s home and a neighbor’s home Thursday night.

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