Military Believes Zarqawi Headquarters Found

U.S. soldiers discovered a house in southern Fallujah on Thursday believed to be a main headquarters for Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of an insurgent network responsible for bombings, kidnappings and beheadings across Iraq.

A mural in the house indicated that it belonged to Zarqawi’s organization.

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Sources Say Al-Zarqawi’s Nephew Detained

The nephew of Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida’s point man in Iraq, was detained near the Jordanian-Iraqi border, a distant relative and a clergyman close to the family said Thursday.

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Domestic terrorism: New trouble at home

Since Sept. 11, the nation’s attention has been focused on possible threats from Islamic terrorists. But home-grown terrorists have been steadily plotting and carrying out attacks in unrelated incidents across the nation, according to federal authorities and two organizations that monitor hate groups.

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Bin Laden statement calls on Pakistanis to fight U.S. troops

A web statement purportedly from al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Pakistani Muslims to fight, saying their country and neighbouring Afghanistan faced an American invasion.

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Hostage Margaret Hassan killed

Unconfirmed: The husband of British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan said on Tuesday she may have been killed by hostage-takers, citing a video tape that had surfaced.

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Mutilated torso found in Iraq

As hundreds of insurgents who escaped the US onslaught of Fallujah regrouped for further attacks across Iraq, the body of a blonde-haired Caucasian woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit was found last night in a street in the battle-torn city.

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CIA Agent: Nuclear Attack Surely Coming

Former CIA agent Michael Scheuer told CBS “60 Minutes� Sunday night that the U.S. fumbled ten chances to kill or capture terror chief Osama bin Laden before 9/11.

Now, Scheuer is convinced that the international outlaw will attack the U.S. homeland with some sort of nuclear weapon of mass destruction.

“They’re intention is to end the war as soon as they can and to ratchet up the pain for the Americans until we get out of their region…. If they acquire the weapon, they will use it, whether it’s chemical, biological or some sort of nuclear weapon,” said Scheuer.

Scheuer described the use of such weapon as a near certainty.

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Al-Qaeda plan to smuggle nukes into Mexico, USA

A key al-Qaeda operative seized in Pakistan recently offered an alarming account of the group’s potential plans to target the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, senior U.S. security officials tell TIME. Sharif al-Masri, an Egyptian who was captured in late August near Pakistan’s border with Iran and Afghanistan, has told his interrogators of “al-Qaeda’s interest in moving nuclear materials from Europe to either the U.S. or Mexico,” according to a report circulating among U.S. government officials.

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Teen Terror Suspect Arrested

A teenager accused of planning to supply a Somalian terrorist group with night vision goggles and bulletproof vests foreshadowed the charges in his high school yearbook with a note that mentions Somalia in his “plans for world supremacy.”

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Terror arrests thwarted attack

The largescale anti-terror operation in The Hague, Amsterdam and Amersfoort on Wednesday thwarted a planned attack in the Netherlands at the last moment, Interior Minister Johan Remkes told MPs on Thursday night.

The seven arrested suspects are allegedly linked to Mohammed B., the 26-year-old Dutch-Moroccan man accused of killing Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam last week, newspaper De Telegraaf reported.

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Gov’t Orders Air Passenger Data for Test

The government on Friday ordered airlines to turn over personal information about passengers who flew within the United States in June in order to test a new system for identifying potential terrorists.

The system, dubbed “Secure Flight,” will compare passenger data with names on two government watch lists, a “no fly” list comprised of people who are known or suspected to be terrorists, and a list of people who require more scrutiny before boarding planes.

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Bin Laden Receives “Religious” Approval To Use Nuclear Weapons Against Americans

Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking down the Saudi terrorist. The former agent, Michael Scheuer, speaks to Steve Kroft in his first television interview without disguise to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 14 .

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Student obsessed with jihad

A Wyoming Technical Institute student charged with attempting to help terrorists in Somalia reportedly said he wished he had flown a hijacked plane during the Sept. 11 attacks, federal authorities said.

Mark Robert Walker, 19, of Rochester, N.Y., had become interested in Islam at a mosque in his hometown, said one official familiar with the case, according to the Washington Post.

“He seems like a lost guy who got obsessed with jihad,” the official told the newspaper.

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FBI Steps Up Search For Missing Tanker

There are new fears of possible terrorism involving a missing gasoline tanker trailer. The tanker was stolen from Pennsauken, New Jersey, seven months ago. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is stepping up its efforts once again to find the tanker.

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