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<p>The American Muslim leader charged with smuggling $340,000 out of Libya was suspected of funneling cash from Osama bin Laden to blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman in the failed 1993 attempt to blow up New York City landmarks, The Post has learned.</p>

<p>His capture was one of the civilized world's biggest coups in the War on Terror. The August arrest of Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, removed another al Qaeda killer from global circulation. Hambali was the terror mastermind behind Jemaah Islamiyah (JI, al Qaeda in Southeast Asia). The "brain" who planned the October 2002 mass murder in Bali, he served as both people "connector" and supply conduit for numerous attacks throughout the region.</p>

June 4— BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police have intercepted at least five envelopes containing white powder, including one addressed to the prime minister's office and another to the U.S. embassy, fearing it may be anthrax or another dangerous substance. Police had yet to determine the nature of the suspicious powder, a spokesman for the interior ministry said.The letters were reminiscent of the anthrax mailings in the United States which killed five people following the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.Those letters caused a global scare that the bacteria was being used as a biological weapon.Belgian police seized...

<p>ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Jordanian authorities said Saturday that they had arrested two confessed members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist group who assassinated U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley on October 28 in Amman, Jordan.</p> <p>BOETTCHER: Foley was head of the ... USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, in Amman.</p>

Grenade Attack on US Embassy Officials, BREAKING....

INGAPORE, Jan. 25 — Shortly after the United States began bombing Afghanistan on Oct. 7, a 30-year- old Indonesian traveling on a false Filipino passport slipped into this tightly controlled city-state carrying a plan to strike back at America. His mission, investigators say, was to activate a "sleeper cell" of Islamic militants who had long been waiting for a call from Al Qaeda's leaders in Afghanistan. This group, which had been loosely organized for eight years, began planning to blow up the embassies of the United States, Israel, Australia and Britain, the investigators say. The plot was foiled when 13 ...

Singapore -- The government said Friday that 13 of 15 people arrested here last month for suspected links to al-Qaida terrorists plotted to blow up Western embassies, U.S. naval vessels and a bus carrying American soldiers. &quot;The plan was apparently ... ready for activation,” a government statement said, but was thwarted when documents and evidence found in Afghanistan allowed authorities to arrest the suspects. Singapore released evidence, including notes in Arabic and a videotape it said was &quot;found in the rubble of an al-Qaida leader's house in Afghanistan.” In the tape, one detainee told how explosives could be carried ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. embassies or consulates in Germany, Denmark, Italy and Luxembourg received letters containing white powder on Wednesday, sparking fears of a fresh anthrax attack, a State Department official told Reuters. "Unidentified white powder was received in local mail deliveries," the official said, citing official information received from the embassies in Copenhagen, Luxembourg and Rome and consulates in Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich. "In each case when the white powder was discovered by mission employees, staff notified local authorities who responded immediately and are now evaluating the substance," he said.

Italian cell part of wider European terror web Its contacts, however, extended to Iran, Malaysia and Afghanistan. Their aim - hit American targets PARIS - A suspected terrorist cell broken up recently in Italy is believed to be part of a wider European network with contacts in Iran, Malaysia and Afghanistan that is suspected of plotting attacks on American targets. Five North Africans were arrested on Thursday and Friday in Milan, Naples, San Remo and the island of Malta. A sixth is at large and a seventh, the alleged leader, is in a British jail. Italian authorities said their activities...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Prosecutor asks for 3 more months to complete terrorist probe Associated Press Worldstream ANTHONY DEUTSCH; Associated Press Writer September 2, 2002 Monday 10:43 AM Eastern Time ROTTERDAM, Netherlands The public prosecutor on Monday asked for three more months to complete his case against four men accused of plotting terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in France and Belgium. Prosecutors say that in addition to the Paris embassy, the group targeted the Kleine-Brogel base in northeast Belgium, where around 100 U.S. Air Force personnel are...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands Sept. 1 — Stolen passports and videotapes of Osama bin Laden are among prosecution evidence against four men summoned to appear in court Monday for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in France and Belgium. Two Algerians, a Frenchman and a Dutchman are accused of running a terrorist support network out of a Rotterdam apartment to assist in strikes against the American Embassy in Paris and a U.S. munitions depot in Belgium.On Monday, prosecutors will set out the broad lines of their case and request three more months to complete investigations, according to spokeswoman Pollyan Spoon of...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish man of Tunisian origin, arrested on suspicion he was about to hijack a plane, was planning to crash the aircraft into a U.S. embassy in Europe, Swedish intelligence sources said on Saturday. Police are looking for four more men, including an explosives expert, who worked with him on the plan, the sources said. "We know for sure that the plan was to crash the plane into a U.S. embassy in Europe," a military intelligence source told Reuters. The man, 29, was arrested on Thursday -- almost a year after the September 11 hijack attacks on...

<p>A police officer looks at the damage Thursday after a car bomb exploded Wednesday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru.</p> <p>LIMA, Peru (CNN) -- Peru's interior minister Thursday tied a deadly car bombing near the U.S. Embassy to this weekend's visit by U.S. President George Bush and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.</p>

QUANTITIES of a cyanide-based substance found in a Rome flat used by four suspected Islamic terrorists may have been part of a "chemical bomb" plot against the city. The bomb theory emerged yesterday as magistrates charged the four, all Moroccans, with subversive terrorism, a crime carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years. The investigations into the men, arrested on Tuesday, initially focused on suggestions that they were planning an attack the on city's water supply or the American embassy. But officials said the nine pounds of potassium ferro-cyanide would have been too difficult to introduce into water conduits, where their ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian police arrested four Moroccans on Tuesday in possession of large quantities of cyanide and maps of Rome highlighting the location of the U.S. embassy, ANSA news agency reported early on Wednesday. ANSA quoted police sources as saying the Moroccans, aged 30 to 40, also had maps of Rome's water system. Police were not immediately available for comment. At least two of the men arrested had been followed after three other Moroccans were arrested last week, ANSA said.

The chemicals were stored in vats in the basement of an Egyptian restaurant in downtown Brussels. The suicide bomber, a former soccer player who had fallen into drug use and petty crime, had been selected. The target, the American Embassy in Paris, had been scouted. All that remained was the signal from Osama bin Laden's operatives in Afghanistan to strike. The nod was to come from a Frenchman of Algerian origin who was on his way back from training in Afghanistan. But he was arrested in transit, and he talked, spilling to French interrogators details of what could have been ...

<p>ROME (AP) -- A hole discovered in a tunnel adjacent to the U.S. Embassy in Rome was large enough to crawl through, and embassy officials said Monday that water pipes leading to the building were circled on a map that was seized along with a cyanide compound in a raid that led to nine arrests.</p>

Italian police say they have arrested four Moroccans who were planning a chemical attack in Rome, targeting buildings which included the United States embassy. The four men, aged between 30 and 40, were detained in a dawn raid on a flat in the Tor Bella Monaca area in the south of the Italian capital. They were discovered to be in possession of a powdered cyanide-based substance, maps marking the capital's water supply network, as well as a hoard of false documentation, officials said. It is suspected that they were intending to poison the water supplies in a commercial area of ...

<p>October 22, 2001 -- Lead suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta visited a Virginia naval base at least twice this year, perhaps thinking of making an aircraft carrier one of his terror targets, it was reported today.</p> <p>Atta made the trips to Norfolk in February and April, according to Newsweek.</p>

Did Clinton nod to Mubarak overthrow? Book suggests foreign policy goof led to Luxor terror massacre &copy;&nbsp;2001&nbsp;WorldNetDaily.com A secret deal between the Clinton administration and terrorists linked with Osama bin Laden led directly to the senseless slaughter of some 70 West European tourists and the wounding of hundreds, according to a book written by a former congressional terrorism expert. According to Yossef Bodansky, author of "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America," a Central Intelligence Agency operative dealing with Islamic terrorists on matters of security for the U.S. forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina led them to believe President Clinton ...