(Iraq) Bomb attacks kill at least 17 -- 12 killed, 36 wounded in suicide car bomb in Hilla; 5 killed in northern Baghdad district of Husaniya

(Iraq) 43 Bodies Found in Baghdad - tortured before being shot - in Baghdad's eastern Baladiyat and Sadir City districts

Somali Islamists seize rival base

Kashmir attack overshadows rivals' anti-terror talk - Kashmir terrorists threw grenades at 2 Indian tourist buses, wounding 21

Iraq PM declares state of emergency in Basra - PM Maliki: "We call this month the month of security in Basra"

Terrorist Leaders Captured in Iraq; Detainees Released - DOD on captures of 8 terrorist leaders, including Karbala shrine attack leader

Five Militants Killed In Daghestan, Ingushetia - Five killed in two separate gunbattles in southern Russia

NYC and DC to get less terrorism money - anti-terrorism grants for both major cities to be cut by 40%

(Iraq) Saudi fighters 'are leading the surge in attacks on British troops'

Jordan Islamists condemn anti-terror law

(UK) Birmingham-based charity (Islamic Relief Worldwide) denies supporting Hamas

(Florida) Law bans travel to "terrorist states"

(Israel) Border Guards Arrest Three Jihad Terrorists

(Iraq) A reporter's shock at the Haditha allegations

Saudis flout vow to end Israel boycott

Iran's military plans for invasion by U.S. - Iraqi-style guerrilla campaign

US Ambassador to Iraq "in talks" with "resistance" (my title)

(India) Two killed in J&K terror attack in Srinagar

Jordan Charges Hamas with Terror Conspiracy

Taliban kill, kidnap dozens of Afghan police

Suspected Taliban occupy police station - Hundreds of fighters attacked remote central Afghan town and occupied district police headquarters

US Troops in Afghanistan fired in self-defense: coalition

U.S. Reportedly Ready to Join Iran Talks - if Russia and China agreed to back U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran if it remains defiant on the enrichment issue

Iran to build two more nuclear plants

DHS: Terror funds mean greater threat - 46 cities receiving money this year because DHS thinks they are terror targets

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh: US is an enemy of Islam

(Israel) Rocket Scores Direct Hit on Jewish Home in Sderot

(Malaysia) Militant trained by al-Qaeda - One of the 12 members of the new terror group Darul Islam arrested by the Malaysian police was trained by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda movement in Afghanistan

(Russia) Seven Killed in Clashes Between Police and Rebels in South Russia

EU privacy ruling threatens chaos on flights to US - if new anti-terrorism agreements not in place by October all flights to US destinations could be grounded

(Updated) Bombs and shootings claim 53 lives in Iraq - Tuesday's deadliest bomb at market 20 miles north of Baghdad killed 22 and wounded 58

German Women Vowed to Mount Suicide Attacks in Iraq

Pentagon: Iraq Insurgency Steady Until '07

Pakistani Taliban take control of wild Waziristan

(Maryland) Jury finds Muhammad guilty in sniper trial - mastermind of an audacious terror scheme in which phase two would have been bombings against children

Hamas enforcer rails against U.S. gov't

Islamic Jihad Threatens More Katyushas and Suicide Bombers

Bush to see "United 93" with victims' families - Spokesman says the president views passengers, crew members as "heroes"

US skeptical about Iran talks

French plot to kidnap Abu Hamza and save the World Cup

Switzerland not safe from terrorist attacks: report

(Italy) Plane passenger 'had ammunition'

(India) Taking the 'jihad' to Kashmir's women

(Turkmenistan) Regime foes see Islamist threat

British police in Gothenburg 'terror' raid - British & Swedish police confiscated books, mobile phones and computers - British submitted "rogatory letter," used by one country to request help from counterparts abroad

French police arrest three people suspected of belonging to Segi - Basque youth organisation Segi is accused of having links to ETA

EU, U.S. Anti-Terror Accord on Airlines Struck Down - European court strikes down counterterrorism agreement on shared passenger info

(UK) Man charged with terror offense - Yassin Felin Nassari arrested in London

U.S. moves 1,500 reserve troops to Iraq

(Iraq) 'Beheading' terror suspect arrested - Ahmed Hussein Dabash Samir al-Batawi llegedly confessed to hundreds of beheadings

(India) Policeman killed, four wounded in Kashmir attack - after suspected Islamist militants threw a grenade at a police vehicle near a crowded market

12 Sri Lankan workers killed execution-style

Suspected collaborators executed by Palestinians

Iraq PM ready to use force on Basra oil "gangs"

Sources: Lawmakers told to brace for Haditha fallout

(UK) Blunders that left Abu Hamza free - should have been removed from Britain 25 years ago after being caught flouting immigration laws

Aid workers killed in Afghanistan by gunmen

IDF kills 7 Palestinians in clashes - IDF Special Forces killed 4 PIJ in Gaza Strip on their way to fire Kassam rockets - 3 Palestinians killed in West Bank clashes

Palestinian Islamic Jihad vows "terrible response" to Gaza ambush

(Indonesia) Suspect (Dwi Widyarto) 'knew of Bali attacks'

Danish Custody Order for 4 Terror Suspects Expires

Morocco: Jailed Islamic Militants On Hunger Strike

Iranian FM: US incapable of attacking Iran

Hezbollah's New Iranian Rockets Can Hit S Israel - Report

Bomb attack against Greek minister wrecks cars

Bomb blasts rock Ethiopia

Update (Canada) Web used for terror training, spy says

Zapatero to push for end of ETA in talks with terrorists

Terror group busted (Malaysia) - 12 members of decades-old Indonesian radical group, Darul Islam, captured while planning attacks - see Kenneth Conboy's May 30 post

2 CBS crew members killed; reporter hurt (updated) - British cameraman and soundman killed along with U.S. soldier and Iraqi interpreter in car bomb - CBS reporter and 6 U.S. servicemen injured

EU says Tamil Tigers 'terrorists' - EU Ministers' decision freezes Tamil Tiger assets in EU's 25 states

Uribe, With Win in Colombia, to Extend War, Cut Taxes - Columbian President Uribe has offered peace negotiations with FARC or intensified military campaign

Europe tries to prevent the next attack - European intelligence networks watching small but violent cast of militants - see Doug Farah's May 24 post

Fourteen killed as US crash, shooting sparks riots in Kabul (updated)

Potential terrorists lurking in Canadian cities, says spy agency - Deputy director of Security Intelligence Service says many residents fought and trained with al-Qaida

Iraqi army says captures Zarqawi aide in Baghdad - Kassim al-Ani one of most wanted men in Iraq

Sunni Arab chief, ally of U.S. assassinated - Sheik Osama al-Jadaan agreed to help Iraqi security forces track down al-Qaida members and foreign fighters

PFLP decides to join Hamas-led cabinet - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists the first PLO faction to join Hamas government and new security force

British soldiers killed as Basra crisis deepens - Two soldiers died after armoured Land Rover attacked on routine patrol, two days after huge explosives cache found and 10 arrested

US air raid kills about 50 Taliban: officials - 50 killed in US-led strike on mosque in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand

Somalia: Al-Qaeda Recruiting in Mogadishu, Report Says

Dozens killed in bombing wave in Iraq - Updated: Series of separate attacks claimed at least 47 lives, most of them in Baghdad

Iraq poised to become main Iranian ally

Iran says won't move all atomic work to Russia - No intention of moving enrichment to Russia to allay international fears that it could use nuclear fuel technology to make atomic bombs

Iran President Ahmadinejad Reiterates Doubt That Holocaust Happened (my title)

(Israel) Iran-supplied Hezbollah Rockets Can Reach Tel Aviv

(UK) MI5 at full stretch as 20 Islamist terror plots revealed - as many as 1,200 potential terrorist suspects may now be in the UK

Bangladesh court orders seven top Islamist militants to hang - for killing two judges in a bomb attack

Bomb attack kills ruling party politician in southwest Bangladesh

(India) Two suspected Islamic militants killed in fresh fighting with soldiers in India’s Kashmir

(Russia) Major terrorist act prevented in Chechen highlands

Hamas to establish its own satellite TV channel

(Israel) IDF commander: Terror groups pooling resources

Israeli soldiers foil Palestinian bombing in Nablus

(Yemen) 23 Al Qaeda suspects to go on Trial

(Philippines) 2 Filipinos to get $0.5M reward from US for terror suspect arrest (Hilarion del Rosario Santos III)

(Afghanistan) 'Captured' Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah appears Al-Jazeera - to prove that he was alive and at large after the Afghan military said it had detained him

Protest in Pakistan against US branding Islamic charities as terrorist - supporters of Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq chanting "Death to America"

(UK) Public turns on animal terrorists

(Iraq) Bombs Kill Three, Wound 21 in Baghdad

Israel bombs bases in Lebanon - two Palestinian terrorist bases in Lebanon - retaliation for border attacks

(Lebanon) Hezbollah clashes with Israel near border

Hezbollah Attacking IDF Posts Along N. Border

Woman killed, children hurt in (terrorist) rocket attack in southwest Pakistan

(India) Two terrorists killed in J&K encounter in a gunbattle in Badgam district

(Israel) Terrorists Open Fire at Soldiers North of Shechem

(Michigan) Owner of LaShish (charity) denies terrorist ties (to Hezbollah)

(Florida) Lebanese man (Fadl Mohammad Maatouk) gets 5-year sentence for helping Hezbollah

(Afghanistan) British troops in 5-day chase of Taliban

(UK) July 7 victims 'let down by disaster plans'

Bush compares anti-terror effort to Cold War era

(Russian immigrant to US gets) 13 years for attempt to sell CIA info to Iraq

(Iran) Ahmadinejad: 'Zionist web' keeping me from World Cup

(Iran) Dissident tells of assaults and threats against children during 66 days in jail run by Iran's clerical regime

Six killed by Sri Lanka landmine - area controlled by Tamil Tiger guerrillas

(Iraq) Four killed in Baghdad blast - exploded in a parked car at a busy bus station in the southern neighborhood of Dora

(Afghanistan) Senior Taliban among 5 killed in strike: US army -- near border with Pakistan

Bomb destroys gas pipeline in southern Pakistan

Hamas rejects deadline on Israel recognition plan

Hamas militia returns to streets of Gaza

Cheney: Terrorists still at work

World press chiefs tackle terrorism and the rise of the Internet

Europe - A Target of Iranian Suicide Bombers

Abbas Calls Terrorists "Our Heroes"

U.S. Urges Russia to Rethink Arms Sales to Iran

Report: Militias torch Timor homes

(Iraq) Four dead after market car blast

(Egypt) Man wanted for Sinai bombs gives self up to police - Mohamad Khadr Salam with Tawhid wal Jihad (One God and Jihad) terror group

Israeli (mobile) phones used by Egypt resort bombers

(Texas) ID badges, uniforms stolen from TSA workers - More than 1,400 identification badges and uniform items have been reported lost or stolen from Transportation Security Administration employees since 2003

Report: Israel warns of World Cup terror

(Afghanistan) Taliban ambush Afghan police, five killed

Surge in Afghan violence result of 'al-Qaeda pressure'

Iranian atomic weapons 'inevitable' - UK think tank says neither diplomacy nor military action likely to succeed

Report: Missile Parts, 'Dual-Use' Materials Illegally Shipped to Iran Through Turkey

(Pakistan) Explosives seized in Karachi raid

(Pakistan) Musharraf calls for flexibility on Iran nuclear row

Iraq respects Iran’s right to nuclear program

Shi'ite faction menaces Iraq's Basra oil exports

Hayden confirmed as CIA director

(DC) Sources say Capitol 'gunfire' likely from air hammer

Bomb kills 9, wounds 30 in Baghdad - Iraqi leader works to fill security posts

(VA) Court hears appeal of jihad cases - "Virginia Jihad Trial" appeal by lawyers for men planning to support LeT and Taliban - Masoud Khan of Gaithersburg, Md., Seifullah Chapman of Alexandria and Hammad Abdur-Raheem of Falls Church

(Chicago) Feds say Padilla may have been higher in Al Qaeda

Lebanon: Car Bomb Blast in Sidon Kills One - target was Mahmoud Majdub of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group

(Russia) Beslan hostage-taker sentenced to life in jail - Chechen found guilty of murder, terrorism in school siege that killed 331

Senate votes to reopen Statue of Liberty's crown - closed since 9/11 because of terrorism fears

1,000 Al-Qaeda Suspects Arrested From Pakistan - between January 2002 and May 2006

(India) Kashmir militant vows to fight until secession - states Pakistan-based chief of an alliance of Muslim terrorist group

(UK) London Court to Extradite Supposed Al Qaeda Activist to Spain - believed to be connected with 9/11 attacks

(UK) More time to quiz terror suspects (arrested in nationwide raids)

(Australia) Terror suspect 'asked about chemicals'

(Australia) Terror suspect transferred - Brisbane teacher with nail and razor embedded bombs in basement

(Canada) Three terror suspects back on hunger strike

Hamas pulls private militia off streets

Iran says rejects Iraq talks with US for now

Russia to Sell Anti-Aircraft Missiles to Iran

Blair tells al-Jazeera: "We don't want conflict with Iran"

(UK) Lawmaker George Galloway - Killing Blair 'morally justified' - claims killing UK PM Blair in suicide bombing would be "morally justified"

Bush and Blair admit Iraq errors

Mystery of Pakistan's cloistered scientist - Dr. A Q Khan

Al Qaeda Building Army in Preparation for Long War

Pakistan: Recognition of Taliban "Administration" on the Cards

(India) Grenade kills three Indian tourists in Kashmir

More than 100 Iranians pledge lives as "suicide bombers"

(UK) Terror gang 'planned to blow up nightclub'

(UK) Secret plans to protect Blair from terror attack left in hotel

(Maryland) The Jihadi Snipers Revisited - Commentary

Abbas vows referendum on co-existence if Hamas does not agree in 10 days

DHS Intelligence Chief Implies He Gets NSA Data

Bomb attack foiled in southern Thailand

Security tight in Sri Lanka's capital amid fears of bomb attacks

Explosion kills 3 in Baghdad - Gunmen wounded an Iraqi general Thursday in southeast Baghdad and a blast killed three people in the heart of the capital

(NYC) Herald Sq. bomb plotter guilty - Pakistani Shahawar Matin Siraj convicted of plotting to bomb NYC subway station - faces up to life in prison

(Update) UK - Armed police seize eight men to 'thwart suicide bomb plot' - may have thwarted the next wave of suicide bomb attacks on British and US forces in Iraq - linked to charity Sanabel Relief Agency

(Iraq) Zarqawi backers lay down Shariah rules

Bin Laden on the Move; New Sightings in Pakistan

Bid to extradite Lebanon terror suspect to Australia (Saleh Jamal)

(DOJ) Terror war Justice's 'highest priority'

Iran to launch a new suicide bombers garrison on Thursday

U.S., Russia Fail to Agree on Iran

WND Report: (Israel) Hamas looking to fly planes into buildings - Terror leader details goal to carry out 9-11-style attacks, 'possibly skyscraper'

(Wisconsin) FBI: Act Of Terrorism Sabotaged Electrical Towers

Extremism rises among Egypt's poor Bedouin

(Canada) Terrorist suspect poses dilemma for Ottawa - Harkat fighting deportation to Algeria where, he says, he will face torture

Al Qaeda: Jordan Prisoner Not Our Man - Terror Group In Iraq Denies Knowing Prisoner Who Admits To Murder

US analysts say bin Laden lacks credibility - regarding statement Moussaoui had no role in 9/11

Al Qaeda strategist (Mustafa Setmariam Nasar) handed over to US by Pakistan - aka Abu Musab al-Suri - $5M bounty and also wanted in Madrid attacks

Palestinian (Sameeh Hammoudeh) deported after Florida Jihad trial

Iraq PM: Forces capable of securing nation - in 18 months

Pan Am Flight 103 families: Libya must pay

(Afghanistan) Taliban Threat to UK: 'Do not send your children here. We will kill them'

Book Review: Guests of the Ayatollah - the First Battle in the West’s War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden

(Indonesia) JI (terror group) operatives 'trained in chemicals' (weapons for widespread destruction) - JI terrorist manual instructs on attack with hydrogen cyanide

US soldier killed in Iraq

U.S. calls Afghan airstrike self-defense

Israel PM Olmert Tells Congress: Israel 'will not yield to terror'

(Israel) IDF arrests Islamic Jihad operative in Ramallah

Bin Laden may be trying to reassert power

"A Testimony to the Truth" -- A Speech by Usama bin Laden 5/23/2006

16 killed as Iraq's leader meets Danish PM

Afghan clash 'kills 60 Taliban' - Sixty suspected Taliban militants and five Afghan security personnel have died in a major clash in the south

US embassy in Japan warns of possible threat

(Northwest UK) Nine arrested in major terror operation

(Maryland) DC Sniper Tells Jury of Lethal Bomb Plots - Malvo states that if he and Muhammad had not been caught - the pair planned to make Baltimore the center of a murderous campaign in which they would use explosives against children and police

(NY) Suspicious recording in Yonkers handed over to terrorist task force - employee of the Moroccan Consulate videotaping Consolidated Edison facility

(India) Grenade attack amid Kashmir talks

World Powers Meet in London About Iran

Report: 'Iran believes Israel to strike in year' -- Tehran planning retaliation against U.S., British interests

Interview with Iranian Grand Ayatollah Montazeri: Mosques are Our Political Parties... Elections are a [Mere] Formality

Kidnappers free Lebanese hostage in Iraq

Hamas militant killed in Gaza ambush

4 Russian Soldiers Killed, 3 Injured in Chechnya Clash

(Canada) Accused terror suspect (Mohamed Harkat) granted bail

German court says dragnet terrorist searches illegal

(Afghanistan) Security slipping around Kandahar

Rise of radical Islam stirs concern that Somalia could harbor terrorists

Dutch Parliament OKs Anti-Terror Measures

Three die as international concern mounts over Sri Lanka violence

(Pakistan) No Al-Qaeda network in Balochistan: Provincial Minister

Bin Laden: Moussaoui Not Linked to 9/11 - an Internet audio tape attributed to Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui - the only person convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks - had nothing to do with the operation

40 Killed in Iraq, 11 Near Shiite Mosque - A bomb went off in a motorcycle parked in the courtyard of a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding at least nine - the deadliest of the attacks

Iraqi Gov't Agent (Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly) Admits al-Qaida Killings - before he was lured to Jordan and arrested

(India) 2 killed, 20 injured in terror attack - Srinagar

(Florida) Sky marshals cleared over shooting

Egypt: Palestinians Aided Sinai Bombings

Bush: U.S. would aid Israel if attacked by Iran

Rice: Iran should play a role in Iraq

Iran test-fires long-range missile - Trial of Shihab-3 missile is "partial success"; weapon has range of 1,300 km

U.S. House move to further cut aid to Hamas irks Bush team

19 killed in new violence in Afghanistan - Taliban fighters ambushed a police patrol in southern Afghanistan, killing three police but leaving 12 militants dead

Kidnapped Afghan official found dead - Mohammad Ali Jalali

The architect of the new war on the West - Spanish-Syrian al-Qaeda strategist Mustafa Setmariam Nasar's writings lay out post-9/11 strategy of isolated cells joined in jihad

(Indonesia) Terror suspect (Abdul Aziz) apologizes for Bali bombing

(Israel) A top Hamas militant (Ibrahim Hamed) captured, blamed for 78 deaths including 5 Americans - West Bank commander of the Hamas military wing surrendered to Israeli troops

US House of Representatives to discuss Hamas bill

Three Palestinians sneak into Egypt to sell bomb

(Philippines) PNP, British police increasing cooperation vs terror

Asian countries cooperating to catch fugitive terror leader (Noordin Top), Indonesian police chief says

(Afghanistan) Kabul clerics rally behind Taliban - Urge worshippers to "pick up a gun" against government - Death toll from surge in violence surpasses 190 over 5 days

Neo-Nazi numbers grow in Germany

Pakistan Sentences 4 to Death in PM Attack

(NYC) Prosecutor: Pakistani immigrant mastermind of subway bomb plot - Pakistani Shahawar Matin Siraj planned to attack a subway station in Herald Square

More than 32,000 Islamist extremists in Germany

Report: US hunting Hezbollah operatives in New York City - FBI and DOJ believe Hezbollah may be planning to activate sleeper cells in New York and other big cities to stage an attack as the nuclear showdown with Iran heats up

U.S. Airstrike Kills Dozens of Taliban - U.S. warplanes hunting Taliban fighters bombed a religious school and mud-brick homes in southern Afghanistan

Jordan Arrests al-Qaida in Iraq Figure - blaming him for kidnapping and killing Jordanians and Arabs and robbing commercial trucks driving to and from Iraq