As opposed to Terrorism News on its own Anti-Terrorism News page (link in left column), this "War on Terror" includes items within the USA and more on European matters - also broader in subject matter.
[AP] USA - FBI: Extremists seek school bus work "Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_re_us/school_bus_extremists
[AP] NEBRASKA - Omaha businesses warned of suspicious mail from 'the Bishop' "Two letters sent to financial institutions in Omaha have been linked to the same person who has been sending threats and pipe bombs to businesses in the Midwest" http://www.kctv5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6228913 [Fox 23 Tulsa]
OKLAHOMA - Bomb Scare at TCC [Hoax device] " The "possible bomb" was two water bottles taped together with an unidentified liquid inside" http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=8aa6b159-4d6b-4e1a-8d10-78262eba9763 [AP]
PENNSYLANIA - Man guides police to bomb in 2nd floor apartment "Police found an elaborate explosive device made of propane, kerosene, acetone and lacquer thinner in a city Housing Authority apartment" "man police found trying to set a bag containing lighter fluid and a wick on fire Tuesday told officers he wanted to blow up the building" http://kdka.com/pennsylvaniawire/PA-BRF--EasternPa-Apa_d_n_0pa--/resources_news_html See also http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/all-b1-5bomb-amar14,0,2381387.story?coll=all-newslocalallentown-hed [MML]
CALIFORNIA - Pipe Bomb Devices Found At Columbia College [4 pipe bombs] http://www.mymotherlode.com/News/article/kvml/1173830862
[AP] INDIANA - Woman finds suspicious device in mailbox, puts it in her SUV "Police say a woman who found a suspicious device in her mailbox put it in her sport utility vehicle and drove to a Goshen-area elementary school before calling authorities" http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6225133 [News Leader]
VIRGINIA - Police seek man after suspicious incident "man is described as dark-skinned, with a thick foreign accent, about 5 feet, 3 inches in height, 140 to 150 pounds, with salt-and-pepper hair and mustache" "custodian found the man carrying what appeared to be a lunch box in the school as students arrived about 7 a.m., police reported. He was escorted out of the building after police say he failed to give a reason for being in the school" "Police do not necessarily suspect terrorism" http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070314/NEWS01/70314012/1002 See also http://www.newsvirginian.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WNV%2FMGArticle%2FWNV_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350219611&path=%21news%21localnews
[Press Democrat] CALIFORNIA - Pipe bomb found in SR http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070314/NEWS/70314004/1033/NEWS01 [Courier-Journal]
OHIO - Ohio plant lost small amount of radioactive material recently http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070314/NEWS01/703141383/1008/NEWS01
[Detroit Free Press] MICHIGAN - Suspicious package at UPS center wasn't bomb "UPS workers found the box earlier this morning and called police because a note on the package said a bomb was inside. He said workers tracked the package and determined it came from Missouri" http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS03/70315017/0/ENT04
[AP] NEW YORK - Apparent pipe-bomb found at upstate shopping mall http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny-brf--mall-pipebomb0315mar15,0,7886265.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
[Press Democrat] CALIFORNIA - Explosives team destroys cache of dynamite [Found hidden recently near school] http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS/70315004/1033/NEWS01
[The Times] ILLINOIS - Lake County Government Center reopens following suspicious substance scare [false alarm] "Lake County police closed the County Government Center on Friday morning as part of an investigation of a possible biological agent in the complex's mailroom" http://nwitimes.com/articles/2007/03/16/updates/breaking_news/doc45fad6f62d985624652218.txt
[Vancouver Sun] CANADA - Explosives seized from cab in Richmond "Surrey RCMP reacted swiftly to prevent the delivery of a parcel containing dynamite when officers surrounded a taxi as it was proceeding along 132nd Ave" "police wouldn’t be releasing any further information on the incident as it was part of an ongoing investigation" http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b6f0bdcb-dcdb-4f71-bcee-0f9ef5e75672&k=90404
[PA News] WASHINGTON D.C. - Man held after White House breach "66-year-old man who scaled a White House fence with a package " http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/man+held+after+white+house+breach/308302
[BCN] CALIFORNIA - Suspicious package detonated outside Taraval Station http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2007/03/17/n/HeadlineNews/SF-SUSPICIOUS-PACKAGE/resources_bcn_html
[Calgary Sun] CANADA - Pipe bomb rocks Ramsay "woman is lucky to be alive after a pipe bomb deliberately planted under a car in Ramsay exploded while she was backing out of her driveway this morning" http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/03/17/3770230.html
[King5.com] WASHINGTON - White powder found at Anacortes refinery "employee at the Shell Refinery in Anacortes found a white substance in an envelope Monday morning" http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_031907WABanacorteswhitepowderKC.2bbdf46c.html
[Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers ] WISCONSIN - ATF National Response Team Activated to Large Residential Fire in Wisconsin "police interviewed one witness who lives several blocks from Landmark and reported seeing someone dressed in black running away from the building moments after explosions that sparked the blaze about 4 a.m" http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070320/GPG0101/70320034/1207/GPGnews See also http://orange.advfn.com/news_ATF-National-Response-Team-Activated-to-Large-Residential-Fire-in-Wisconsin_19885506.html
International - [AP] PHILIPPINES - Unidentified men bomb 3 power transmission towers in southern Philippines http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/14/asia/AS-GEN-Philippines-Bombed-Towers.php
[dpa] ZIMBABWE - Three police officers injured in Zimbabwe petrol bomb attack http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Three_police_officers_injured_in_Zi_03142007.html
[Deutsche Presse-Agentur ] LEBANON - Police discover bomb near home of Lebanese political official http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1277385.php/Police_discover_bomb_near_home_of_Lebanese_political_official
[AP] ALGERIA - U.S. Embassy in Algeria warns of possible, unspecified threat against airplane carrying Westerners http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/13/africa/AF-GEN-Algeria-Terror-Warning.php See also http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070313/ts_nm/algeria_usa_warning_dc See also http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_re_af/algeria_terror_warning
[AP] NEPAL - Assassination plot claimed: Nepal offers additional security to US envoys "Nepal’s government has offered additional security for US officials in this Himalayan nation after allegations of an assassination plot against an American diplomat surfaced last week" http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\13\story_13-3-2007_pg4_17
[AFP] AFGHANISTAN - Kabul bomb levels a row of shops http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/685287.htm
[New York Times] PAKISTAN - Islamic Militants in Pakistan Bomb Targets Close to Home [Graphic photo] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/world/asia/14pakistan.html?ex=1331524800&en=8f5fdf4bfb27b75b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
[Regnum] UKRAINE - Radioactive waste packaged 40 years ago in Uzbekistan found in Ukrainian gutter http://www.regnum.ru/english/796008.html
[Dawn] PAKISTAN - Gas pipeline blown up "A portion of the 6-inch diameter pipeline was blown up as an explosive device planted under the pipeline went off at 10:45am" http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/13/top11.htm
[CNN] FRANCE - 3 ETA suspects arrested in France "The three men arrested are suspected of being part of an ETA cell that killed three people in various attacks between 1994 and 1997" http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/13/spain.basque/index.html
[AP] COLUMBIA - Rebels abduct 9 geologists in Colombia "The geologists -- employees of Compania de Servicios Logisticos de Colombia -- were abducted Tuesday evening in the province of Choco by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said Colonel Carlos Pinto, commander of the army's 15th brigade" http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/14/colombia.kidnapping.ap/index.html
[Reuters] ALGERIA - Bomb Kills Two Algerians "Two members of an Algerian Islamist militant group were killed when a roadside bomb they were planting outside Algiers exploded prematurely" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/world/africa/15algeria.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
[Brussels Journal] NETHERLANDS - Utrecht: Ethnic Riots after Dutchman is Killed by Police "After the death last Sunday of Rinie Mulder, a 54-year old indigenous Dutchman who was shot by a police officer, non-immigrant citizens went on a rampage, burning cars, looting shops and arsoning a community centre in “inverted Paris style riots.” According to our sources the police officer who killed Mulder is a woman of Moroccan origin" " intervened when Muslim youths harassed a pregnant native Dutch woman" http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1976 See also http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/03/utrecht-ondiep-roundup.html
[PTI] INDIA - One killed in ULFA bomb explosion in Assam "remote controlled device was planted inside a dustbin in front of a shop in Sonari market and it exploded at 7.15 am" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/One_killed_in_ULFA_bomb_explosion_in_Assam/RssArticleShow/articleshow/1764962.cms
[AP] MOROCCO - Police arrest 13, find bomb equipment after apparently bungled suicide bombing "Police have arrested 13 people allegedly linked to a man who blew himself up in a Casablanca Internet cafe and found bomb-making equipment on Wednesday" "Like the bomber, at least one of those arrested had been in prison on terrorism charges before being pardoned" http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/14/africa/AF-GEN-Morocco-Bungled-Bombing.php
[Belfast Telegraph] UNITED KINGDOM - Suspected 9/11 mastermind claims he intended to bomb sites in UK http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/europe/article2360114.ece
[AP] BELGIUM - Brussels main court building evacuated after bomb alert "after the discovery of a suspicious package sparked a bomb alert" http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/15/europe/EU-GEN-Belgium-Bomb-Alert.php
[PTI] INDIA - 13 bombs found in Kanpur http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=6349
[AP] INDIA - 49 police officers killed in suspected rebel attack in eastern India, police say "Suspected communist rebels armed with rifles, hand grenades and petrol bombs attacked a police post in the jungles of eastern India on Thursday, killing at least 49 officers, police said" http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564981425976509225
[RIA Novosti] RUSSIA - Militant base discovered in Chechnya "An active militant base has been discovered in the Shatoi district in southern Chechnya" http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070314/61966432.html
[AP] IRAQ / IRAN - Bomb Believed to Be From Iran Found at Site Where 4 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Baghdad http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258912,00.html
[Reuters] EGYPT - Egyptian forces arrest Palestinian wearing explosives "A potential Palestinian suicide bomber and 10 Egyptians were arrested in the northern Sinai peninsula" http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/838303.html
[Xinhua] COLOMBIA - Three injured in bomb attack in Colombia "bomb exploded in front of the police headquarters in the northeastern Colombian province of Risaralda Thursday, injuring three people and damaging property" http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/16/content_5854615.htm
[Mid-Day] INDIA - IB sounds terror alert in Mumbai, yet again "The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has warned that Mumbai may be attacked in the next few days. In a communiqué to city security agencies including the police, the IB has said that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists will plant bombs at crowded places" "the intelligence is not airport specific" http://www.mid-day.com/news/city/2007/march/153601.htm
[sahara samay] INDIA - Bomb blast in Nandigram "At least 11 people were killed and 75 others injured " http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=71942
[CNN-IBN] INDIA - 5 injured in Guwahati bomb blast "At least five people have been seriously injured when a bomb exploded at Paltanbazar area in the heart of Guwahati city on Friday" " bomb was believed to be planted in a parked motorcycle in the parking space beside the busy road" http://www.ibnlive.com/news/5-injured-in-guwahati-bomb-blast/36170-3.html
[Reuters] SOMALIA - Bomb kills 7 on Mogadishu outskirts: police "A bomb killed seven civilians on Friday near Somalia's capital Mogadishu in the chaotic Horn of Africa " http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031600435.html
[The New Nation] BANGLADESH - 2 'terrorists'killed in crossfire with RAB at Savar http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_34699.shtml
[Ynet] ISRAEL - IDF arrests 24 suspects in West Bank http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3376777,00.html See also http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3377247,00.html
[Pakistan Times] PAKISTAN - Girl Injured as 3-Bomb blasts Rock Quetta "Police sources told that the third blast was heard in the areas adjoining railway station" http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/03/17/top11.htm
[Xinhua] IRAQ - Policeman killed in bomb attack in N Iraq http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/17/content_5860555.htm
[Press TV ] IRAQ - 350 ill from chlorine bombs in Iraq http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=2930§ionid=3510101 See also http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/194283735? See also http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/194283670?
[Associated Press] PAKISTAN - Bomb blast at music market in northwestern Pakistani city wounds 2 men, police say http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/18/asia/AS-GEN-Pakistan-Bomb-Explosion.php
[UNI] INDIA - Maoist arrested with huge explosives "for illegally possessing 290 detonators, 200 gelatin sticks and fuse wires" http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG3_sub.asp?ccode=ENG3&newscode=154557
[AP] IRAQ - U.S. raids net 12 suspected insurgents http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_raids
[Xinhua] THAILAND - Insurgents shoot villagers in Thai South, killing 2 "group of insurgents armed with machine guns shot at local villagers in a Thai southern district which is near the curfew-imposed area on Saturday night, killing at least two and injuring more than 10 people" http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/18/content_5861243.htm
[Radio Australia] AFGHANISTAN - Taliban insurgents maim truck drivers "Taliban insurgents have chopped the noses and ears off at least five truck drivers in the east of the country as punishment for transporting supplies to US-led troops" http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1874681.htm
[Los Angeles Times] PHILIPPINES - Fugitive linked to Al Qaeda is caught "Authorities recaptured a suspected member of a group linked to Al Qaeda who escaped from jail with a top terrorist operative nearly four years ago" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-briefs18.5mar18,1,6239980.story?coll=la-news-a_section
[PTI] INDIA - Crude bomb explodes near Tata Motors site "crude bomb exploded on Sunday near the Tata Motors' small car project site, but there were no casualties" http://ia.rediff.com/news/2007/mar/18singur.htm
[AP] IRAQ - 5 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, 4 in one incident http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17672792/
[AP] SERBIA - Serbian police crack down on alleged Muslim terrorist group, arrest 4 "Serbian police said Saturday they discovered the training camp of an alleged Muslim terrorist group in a tense southern region, and arrested four Serbian Muslims" http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/17/europe/EU-GEN-Serbia-Terrorism.php
[Associated Press] AFGHANISTAN - U.S. Embassy vehicle hit by roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan; several people wounded "A car bomb exploded next to a U.S. Embassy convoy on a busy road in Kabul on Monday, setting an embassy SUV on fire" "the U.S. ambassador was not in the convoy" http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564983624999764571
[Reuters] THAILAND - Three Buddhist women dead in south Thailand attack http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/19/AR2007031900140.html
[Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence] SRI LANKA - STF kills four LTTE cadres http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070319_03
[Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence] SRI LANKA - Two civilians injured in LTTE mortar attack "A 15 year-old girl and a 65 year old woman were injured when LTTE terrorists launched a mortar attack " http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070319_02 [Reuters]
IRAQ - Security developments in Iraq, March 19 http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=PAR927252
[Guardian] IRAQ - Bomber kills six at Baghdad mosque http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2037568,00.html [
dpa] TURKEY - Alleged PKK rebels charged with plans to bomb factories in Turkey "Twelve alleged members of the rebel Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) have been formally arrested for planning to carry out a series of bomb attacks on industrial targets in western Turkey" http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Alleged_PKK_rebels_charged_with_pla_03192007.html
[Ynet] ISRAEL - IDF nabs 7 wanted terror suspects in West Bank overnight http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3378679,00.html
[Ynet] ISRAEL - IDF arrests 13 wanted Palestinians http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3378181,00.html
[Ynet] ISRAEL - Islamic Jihad explosives expert killed, 18 wounded in Gaza http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3378354,00.html
[Ynet] ISRAEL - Palestinians hurl explosive device at IDF post in Hebron; no wounded http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3378622,00.html
[AFP] SOMALIA - Roadside bomb hits UN convoy in Somalia "gunmen set off a roadside bomb and then opened fire, wounding three policemen" http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/YSAR-6ZGSBZ?OpenDocument
[New York Times] PAKISTAN - 58 Militants and Tribespeople Die in Fighting in Northern Pakistan "Fierce fighting between foreign militants and local tribesmen in northern Pakistan in the past few days has left at least 58 people dead" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/world/asia/21pakistan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
[AFP] INDIA - 6 militants 2 soldiers die "Six suspected Kashmiri militants and two Indian soldiers, one of them an officer, were killed during two gunbattles in Indian-administered Kashmir" http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/21/top15.htm
[AFP] AFGHANISTAN - Troops kill three militants in Afghanistan "US-led coalition and Afghan troops killed three “suspected extremists” yesterday in a hunt for a militant said to have ordered assassinations and suicide bombings" http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Pakistan+%26+Sub%2DContinent&month=March2007&file=World_News2007032153240.xml
[DPA] SWEDEN - Bomb Threat Against Swedish Nuclear Plant "The threat was made against the Forsmark plant, 140 kilometres north of the capital Stockholm" http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_20159-Bomb-Threat-Against-Swedish-Nuclear-Plant.html
[Reuters] ISRAEL - Palestinian killed in gunbattle between IDF, Fatah gunmen "Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man on Wednesday in a gunbattle in the West Bank that broke out during a search for wanted militants"
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