Author: Shahar, Yael

In the wake of the terror attacks of “Black Tuesday,” investigators are seeking to follow the “money trail” back to the perpetrators, hoping to learn who ultimately gave the order. While American officials would like to see a clear trail leading back to the legendary

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades first emerged on the scene shortly after the outbreak of what has come to be known as the al-Aqsa conflict, in late September 2000. In a very real sense, the Martyrs Brigades was a response to the need to suit actions

For months the Indonesian government has denied allegations that al-Qaida militants were setting up shop in the country. When Singapore’s investigation into a plot to bomb Western interests pointed to the involvement of Indonesian operatives, Indonesia refused even to entertain the possibility. Now, in the

On 22 March, an Australian cameraman on assignment for the Australian Broadcasting Corp. was killed in a suicide car bombing in northern Iraq. Officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said they believed the Ansar al-Islam group, linked to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network,

After a long hiatus, the Peruvian Marxist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) appears to be staging a come-back. The organization carried out two violent attacks against military forces and civilians earlier this month. This was followed by an incursion into a mining camp which netted

Singapore’s security service recently revealed that the Lebanese Hizballah terrorist group had plotted to bomb American and Israeli ships at dock in Singapore. The city-state’s Internal Security Department (ISD) said that Hizballah operatives had recruited five Singaporean Muslims in the 1990’s, who were to assist

Ricin, a derivative of the castor bean, is relatively easy to produce and stockpile. The toxin can be ground up and sprayed as an aerosol, added to food or drinks, or spread on surfaces.

In a video statement shown on national television and distributed to the Basque media, ETA said it “has decided to declare a permanent cease fire as of March 24, 2006.” The announcement brings a close to one of Western Europe’s last active armed separatist movements.

Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni militant group allied with al-Qaida is now firmly established in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq—a region outside the direct control of Saddam Hussein.

To analysts following the security situation in Saudi Arabia, Monday’s nearly simultaneous attacks on complexes housing Westerners in Saudi Arabia came as no surprise.