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(IsraelNN.com) ZAKA officials report that Torah scrolls, prayer books, and other religious articles will be buried by the volunteers who arrived in Turkey to assist following the double car bombing attacks yesterday. The holy articles were destroyed as a result of the powerful terrorist bombs that were detonated against two Istanbul synagogues on the Sabbath morning.

CNN Turk: Explosion rocks Neveh Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey; five reported dead (Reuters)

Exclusive: IDF training software to go to US forces in Iraq By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN The US military has asked the Israeli army to translate its special educational software program that teaches soldiers how to behave in occupied territories, so US forces can apply it in Iraq, senior Israeli officers said Wednesday. The newly completed completed software teaches the IDF's code of conduct, which is based on 11 principles. These deal with such issues as how to behave at roadblocks, during arrests and searches and with rioters. All are common events soldiers face in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The...

The remains of more than a thousand people who died in the attack on the World Trade Center will be preserved in a memorial space built at ground zero, in the hope that science will advance to the point that they can be identified, according to city and state officials. Many relatives of victims killed in the attack have asked that unidentified remains be interred at the former World Trade Center site. The challenge was to accommodate that wish in a way that did not complicate the project design but did preserve the remains for future scientific study. Investigators have...

"He pulls out a knife, you pull out a gun. He puts one of your men in the hospital, you put one of his in the morgue. That's the Chicago way." -- Sean Connery, "The Untouchables". The lesson? When you're dealing with thugs, whether street gangs, mafiosos or terrorists, brute force invariably trumps all. Like most Americans, I'm still heartbroken over the recent Palestinian terror-bombing of a bus, now known as the "Massacre of the Children". This latest abomination, involving the targeting of Israeli children, is one of a long line of kamikaze-style attacks on Israeli civilians motivated by unmitigated...

INDIANAPOLIS: President George W Bush on Tuesday denounced the bombings in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 91 people as the work of "killers whose only faith is hate." He vowed to "find the killers and they will learn the meaning of American justice." "Tuesday's attacks in Saudi Arabia, the ruthless murder of American citizens and other citizens, reminds us that the war on terror continues," Bush said. Bush made the remarks at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, where he was speaking on his tax-cut and economic stimulus plan. "My thoughts and prayers and those of our fellow citizens are with...

Rice Says Terror Attacks Leave No Choice on Iraq Feb. 8 — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Past terror attacks mean Washington must not waver in its determination to force Iraq to disarm, U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday as speculation grew about an imminent strike against Baghdad. Rice said President Bush's tough stand against Iraq follows America's tradition of helping those in need. "The president is leading a global war on terror not just because America was attacked but because free men and women everywhere are under attack," Rice told Nine Network television in an interview from the...

LONDON: A major shake-up of Britain's Cold War era emergency planning system is being mapped out to help the country cope with a large-scale terrorist attack, newspapers reported Sunday. Legislation was likely to be put before parliament early in the New Year to create a system better able to deal with nuclear, biological and chemical strikes, The Sunday Times said. Current plans for emergencies were based on legislation dating back to the Cold War period, rather than geared to coping with catastrophes on the scale of the suicide strikes on New York and Washington on September 11 last year. Local...

Terror attack on a polling station....just breaking on tv..

<p>Capt. Jim Hosking is stunned as he reads the message from the cockpit printer aboard United Flight 890. On most days, messages sent to the Boeing 747 are ordinary: maintenance items or reports of bad weather. On this day, Sept. 11, before sunrise over the Pacific Ocean, the warning is unlike any he has seen. Hijackings? Terrorist attack? Taking off from Narita, Japan, just hours before, Hosking, 56, looked forward to heading home to Los Angeles, where his wife would be waiting. But reading the message, sent at 9:37 a.m. Eastern Time, the pilot of 34 years wonders: What the hell happened down there? And then, even more chilling: What's going to happen up here?</p>

<p>Aboard Delta Flight 1989, Capt. Paul Werner learns of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from his cockpit radio. The time: around 9:15 a.m. Werner, 54, figures the planes that hit the World Trade Center must be small ones — not passenger jets like the Boeing 767 he commands. He has no idea what the FBI and air traffic controllers suspect: that terrorists plan to hijack his flight next.</p>

<p>Q. Do you think the LAX incident represented a failure of security?</p> <p>A. As happened on Sept. 11, aviation was used as a vehicle for terrorism or for a political statement. When you look at the incident and the fact that it happened outside of airport security, there's really not a whole lot that the airport and the airline could have done different.</p>

In shift, FBI allows it might have been able to detect terror attacks Wed May 29, 8:48 PM ETBy TED BRIDIS, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - FBI (news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday there could have been more missed clues before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and suggested for the first time that investigators might have uncovered the plot if they had been more diligent about pursuing leads."The jury is still out on all of it," Mueller said, during a wide-ranging, two-hour interview at Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters. "Looking at it right now, I can't say for...