MURDER OF U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; CONSPIRACY TO MURDER U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; ATTACK ON A FEDERAL FACILITY RESULTING IN DEATH   USAMA BIN LADEN   Date of Photograph Unknown

The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Usama Bin Laden. An additional $2 million is being offered through a program developed and funded by the Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

The information below, provided by various publishers, is public knowledge.  Osama has stated that he wants to die as a martyr.  Perhaps you can find him yourself and execute his wishes or bring him to justice?  (Use the $25,000,000 to finance your startup business or retirement?)  Various experts and informants have identified likely hiding places and former residences.  This is one of the most comprehensive compendiums on the web of references and news items related to Osama bin Laden and his terrorist activities, including maps, interviews, criminal evidence and the latest updates on the search for Osama bin Laden.

• FBI Most Wanted 01 Nov 2001: - Description of Usama bin Laden, his various aliases, warning about his terrorist activities and use of weapons
• US Department of State 15 Dec 1999 FBI Websites Document Evidence Against Bin Laden - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made public two websites where information about Usama bin Laden is available
• Frontline 1998-2001: Hunting bin Laden  Who is bin Laden and what does he want?
• MSNBC Sep 2001: Osama bin Laden: FAQ - Background and updates on Bin Laden's activities and location
• ABCNEWS.com Sep 2001: The World's Most Dangerous Terrorist - Source: Vince Cannistraro, former CIA counter-terrorism chief / Map by Mark Bloch/ABCNEWS.com
• The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism Sep 2001: Osama bin Ladin and al-Qaida - ICT News and Articles
• Gobal Exchange 12 Sep 2001:  Who is Osama bin Laden?   Background information by Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
• TIME.com 13 Sep 2001: How to Beat Bin Laden - How Osama Bin Laden operates — and what it will take to defeat him 
• The Public i 13 Sep 2001:  How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist  The author, Ahmed Rashid of Pakistan is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity
• CNN.com 14 Sep 2001: Bin Laden goes low-tech to avoid a trace - Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the U.S. terror attacks, is outfoxing intelligence agencies with his low-tech communication methods
• Los Angeles Times 14 Sep 2001: Bin Laden's Trail of Terror - The millionaire militant is believed to lead a terror network with operations in 60 countries and to have carried out numerous attacks around the world - detailed list of countries and maps
• disinformation 18 Sep 2001: Where's Osama been hidin'?  Background information and discussion
• BBC News 18 Sep 2001:  Who is Osama Bin Laden?  Osama Bin Laden is both one of the CIA's most wanted men and a hero to many young people in the Arab world
• MSN Slate 20 Sep 2001: Where Is Osama Bin Laden?  What likelihood is there that he is hiding in the place that everyone assumes—in a cave? And where will he go now that the Taliban has asked him to leave?
• Economist.com 20 Sep 2001:  Osama bin Laden's Network - A trickier enemy is hard to imagine
• smh.com.au 21 Sep 2001: Mullahs urge bin Laden to leave voluntarily - Afghanistan's religious leaders were last night reported to have urged Osama bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in last week's terror attacks, to leave their country where he has been sheltered as a "guest" 
• ABCNEWS.com 26 Sep 2001: Bin Laden Interview (Dec 1998) - ABCNEWS producer Rahimullah Yousafsai interviewed Osama bin Laden in December 1998
• CNN.com 03 Oct 2001: Officials reveal two earlier plans to get bin Laden - The CIA trained and armed about 60 Pakistani commandos in 1999 with plans for them to enter Afghanistan and capture or kill Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials confirmed to CNN Wednesday
• TheAge.com.au 07 Oct 2001: Bin Laden out of hiding, but when, where? The undated video, thought to have been made in Afghanistan, was delivered to the Kabul office of the al-Jazeera Arabic-language television channel
• ABCNEWS.com 07 Oct 2001 Osama bin Laden: a Terrorist's Profile - A Private Terrorist Osama bin Laden: Folk Hero, Pariah, Bankroller of Terrrorist Training Camps
• USINFO 12 Oct 2001: Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda - Countries where al Qaeda has operated
• CNN.com 03 Nov 2001: Bin Laden lashes out at U.N., U.S. attacks in taped message - On the 20-minute tape, bin Laden does not deny that his organization was responsible for the September 11 attacks
• BBC News 18 Nov 2001: Where is Bin Laden? Map of possible locations and previous sites
• Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) 20 Nov 2001: WMD Terrorism and Usama Bin Laden (1998-2001) - It seems more likely that Bin Laden has good reason to try and distance himself from Al-Fadl in order to cover up his actions and discredit the informant’s information on Al-Qa’ida, its members, and outside contacts, such as those in Sudan.
• WashingtonPost.com 24 Nov 2001: Former Camp Bears No Trace of Bin Laden  Abandoned camp in Hadda, Afghanistan 10 miles south of Jalalabad
• BBC News 26 Nov 2001: Bin Laden's fortress caves - If rumours that Osama Bin Laden and members of his al-Qaeda network have fled the network of fortified caves and tunnels near Tora Bora are true, this would be a formidable success for US forces
• WashingtonPost.com Dec 2001: Bin Laden's World  Map of Bin Laden's world with information about important regions
• Operation Enduring Freedom Portal 2001: Understanding The War on Terrorism  Discussion forums - Where is Osama Bin Laden?
• Opinion Journal 02 Dec 2001: Newspapers should report on Osama as if he's another Hitler - Comparison of Bin Laden and Hitler
• CNN.com./U.S. 13 Dec 2001: Transcript of Osama bin Laden videotape - The following transcript of a videotape of Osama bin Laden talking with others, translated from Arabic into English, was issued by the U.S. Department of Defense.
• The New York Times on the Web 2001: Bin Laden's Cave Locations - There are innumerable caves and tunnels in Afghanistan, but Osama bin Laden is said to be moving from cave to cave along the Pakistan border - maps and underground sketches
• Council on Foreign Relations Jan 2002 Terrorism: Questions & Answers - the recent history of terrorism with statistics and analysis of trends
• DailySouthtown 01 Jan 2002: Marines in combat gear leave Kandahar Karzai says they're searching for Omar
• news.com.au 24 Jan 2002: US mounts 'Somalia spy mission' - US army officers have secretly entered Somalia in the first indication of President George W Bush's determination to extend the war against terrorism, a British newspaper has reported
• CATO Institute 24 Jan 2002: Where in the Wolrd is Osama Bin Laden? - According to the Pentagon, the best assessment is that he is still in Afghanistan, but a senior intelligence officer admitted "best assessments can be proven wrong." A senior defense official said, "We don't have any evidence that shows he's anywhere but Afghanistan, but we don't have anything compelling that shows he's in Afghanistan."
• Los Angeles Times 25 Jan 2002: U.S. Raids Afghan Site, Seizes 27 Taliban Fighters - Asia: A skirmish north of Kandahar injures a Green Beret and kills 15 holdouts. Those targeted were "not simply foot soldiers," Rumsfeld says.
• FOXNews.com 27 Jan 2002: Karzai Heads to D.C. - Karzai told Afghan television that he would use the trip to push for the expansion of a multinational peacekeeping force into the rest of Afghanis
• The Public i 31 Jan 2002:  Africa's 'Merchant of Death' Sold Arms to the Taliban - According to Belgian intelligence documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, Victor Bout earned $50 million in profit for selling weapons to the Taliban in the late 1990s
• MSNBC 24 Feb 2002: U.S. unsure of bin Laden's location - bin Laden probably remains hidden in the remote terrain straddling Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan
• FOXNew.com 03 Mar 2002: Bombs Blast Afghan Mountains as U.S. Presses Taliban, Al Qaeda - SURMAD, Afghanistan  — American bombers continued to bombard Al Qaeda and Taliban mountain holdouts in eastern Afghanistan for a third day Sunday... Neither the former Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar nor Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden is believed to be in the area
• MSNBC 06 Mar 2002: How al-Qaida keeps in touch - Officials say group still uses high-tech to send messages
• Guardian Unlimited Observer 10 Mar 2002: Where is Osama bin Laden? - If still alive, Osama bin Laden is most likely to be in the mountains that line the Afghan-Pakistan frontier
• FOXNews.com 11 Mar 2002: U.S. Special Forces Advance Team on the Ground in Yemen, More Await Deployment - military sources tell Fox News that 500 troops will be in Yemen by the end of the month
• MSNBC 11 Mar 2002: Afghan allies mobilize for final push - U.S. warplanes pounded the remnants of a once formidable al-Qaida fighting force in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Monday as hundreds of Afghan reinforcements headed for the battlefront
• CNN.com 20 Mar 2002: Indonesia: A haven for al Qaeda? - "We know the JI has ties to al Qaeda," says FBI Director Robert Mueller. "We know the JI has ties in other countries besides Singapore, including Malaysia and Indonesia."
• Los Angeles Times 20 Mar 2002: Iran Hindering Terrorism War, CIA Chief Says - Tehran is still allowing Al Qaeda and Taliban members in Afghanistan to flee across its border, George Tenet tells a Senate committee
• FOXNews.com 01 Apr 2002: List of Senior Al Qaeda Leaders - Al Qaeda's top leaders, their nationalities and status, according to U.S. officials
• FOXNews.com 02 Apr 2002:  White House Lauds Zubaydah's Capture - The United States on Tuesday confirmed the capture of a senior Al Qaeda leader who is believed to hold the key to unlocking many of the terrorist group's secret operations and who may know the location of Osama bin Laden
• CNN.com 02 Apr 2002:  White House hails bin Laden aide's capture - Calling it a "very serious blow to al Qaeda," the White House on Tuesday celebrated the capture of one of Osama bin Laden's key lieutenants
• New York Times 04 Apr 2002:  A Terror Suspect Pleads Guilty to Trying to Kill a Jail Guard  - Mr. Salim has been described by prosecutors as one of Mr. bin Laden's top advisers, one who helped provide religious justification for terror attacks and ran businesses that generated money for Al Qaeda, Mr. bin Laden's terror network
• CNN.com 15 Apr 2002: New bin Laden tap surfaces - An Arabic-language television network has aired a previously unseen videotape of Osama bin Laden showing the accused terrorist mastermind sitting with a top deputy who claims credit for the September 11 attacks in the United States.
• Los Angeles Times 17 APR 2002: British Marines Search for Enemy in Afghan Heights - Royal Marines have begun a search-and-destroy mission to clear Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters from mountainous terrain in eastern Afghanistan, the first major combat operation of the conflict by British land forces
• CNN.com 18 Apr 2002: Sources: bin Laden wounded in Tora Bora battle - Captured al Qaeda fighters say Osama bin Laden was wounded in Tora Bora last year and ordered his lieutenants to disperse in various directions from the mountains of eastern Afghanistan
• Economist.com 19 Apr 2002: The elusive al-Qaeda - Around the world, there is evidence that Islamic terrorism is alive and kicking. A trial in Germany seems set to give an insight into how al-Qaeda works. But it is still unclear how many terrorist suspects are directly linked to Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington
• Time.com 19 Apr 2002: The Feds Fingerprint Al-Qaeda The U.S. looks to get some 10,000 suspected members in a single database as well as members of some 30 other terrorist groups
• FOXNews.com 24 Apr 2002:  Officials Name Six Taliban Leaders, at Large, Who Threaten Harm to U.S. - Despite their fall from power, a half-dozen key Taliban leaders pose a threat to U.S. interests in Afghanistan and elsewhere and remain high on America's target list.
• washingtonpost.com 25 Apr 2002: U.S. Units Attacking Al Qaeda in Pakistan - Covert Operation Straddles Border
• BBC News 29 Apr 2002: US Muslim charity head arrested - The FBI filed an affidavit with the complaint, saying that Enaam M Arnaout, the executive director of the Benevolence International Foundation, has had a relationship with Osama Bin Laden "and many of his key associates dating back more than a decade."
• CNN.com 29 Apr 2002: FBI links head of charity to bin Laden - Federal agents arrested the director of an Illinois-based charity Tuesday and charged him with lying about links to Osama bin Laden and international terrorism.
• CBS News 02 May 2002: Brits Spearhead Afghan Sweep - British marines are leading a force of 1,000 allied forces in a major sweep of southeastern Afghanistan. The mountainous region is thought to have been a key al Qaeda base, the British military said Thursday.
• FOXNews.com 03 May 2002: FBI Agent Warned of Suspicious Flight Students Last Summer - In July of last year, two months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, FBI agents based in Arizona warned headquarters to be wary of Middle Eastern men studying at American flight schools.
• Economist.com 09 May 2002: Pakistan's terrorist war - The al-Qaeda terrorist group is suspected of being responsible for a suicide bomb attack which killed fourteen people
• Los Angeles Times 09 May 2002:  Pakistan on High Alert After Blast - President Pervez Musharraf ordered security forces on maximum alert Wednesday and said a suicide car bombing that killed 11 French workers and two of his citizens was an act of international terrorism
• washingtonpost.com 09 May 2002:  Bomb Attack Kills 36 in Town Near Chechnya - 12 Children Among the Dead in Blast Putin Called a Terrorist Attack
• FOXNews.com 10 May 2002:  Allied Forces Blow Up 20 Truckloads of Weapons in Afghan Caves - Coalition forces blew up four caves Friday packed with tens of thousands of rockets, shells and grenades that once belonged to the Taliban -- and were apparently still being used.
• CBSNEWS.com 10 May 2002: FAA Was Alerted To Sept. 11 Hijacker - Months before Hani Hanjour is believed to have flown an American Airlines jet into the Pentagon, managers at an Arizona flight school reported him at least five times to the FAA.
• Economist.com 10 May 2002:  Pakistan's terrorist war - Pakistani police are trying to trace three men believed to have been involved in an attack which killed 16 people with possible al-Qaeda involvement
• CNN.com 14 May 2002:  U.S. Forces kill 5 Taliban fighters, capture 32 - Senior Pentagon official said the five were killed after opening fire on U.S. troops about 60 miles north of Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold.
• Los Angeles Times 19 May 2002:  On the Trail of a Man Behind Taliban's Air Fleet - Victor Bout supplied combatants in hot spots around the world.
• CBSNews.com 19 May 2002:  Group Releases 'New' Bin Laden Tape - A British-based Islamic news agency released video footage of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden on Sunday which it said was filmed just two months ago.
• CNN.com 20 May 2002:  Cheney: Another attack on U.S. 'almost certain' - A matter of 'when' not 'if', according to Cheney
• CNN.com 20 May 2002:  Video of Osama bin Laden released - Video contains nothing indicating it was taped after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
• The New York Times 22 May 2002: Seeking Mullah Omar in a Land of Secrets - Mullah Omar, Afghanistan's former leader, is one of the world's most wanted men, since he gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network in 1996 and allowed him to operate and acquire enormous power and influence in the country
• disinformation 23 May 2002: US ignored pre-9/11 warnings from Jordan and Morocco - Investigators should consider the specific warnings that friendly Arab intelligence services sent to Washington in the summer of 2001
• TIME.com 24 May 2002: Person of the Week: Abu Zubaydah - Tips from al-Qaeda's COO resulted in tightened security and questions about how seriously to take his threats
• FOXNews.com 24 May 2002: U.S. Troops Raid Taliban Compound - Based on intelligence that it was a sanctuary for senior Taliban and Al Qaeda figures, U.S. military officials said
• BBC News 24 May 2002: US-led troops raid 'Taleban' camp - General Peter Pace said the coalition troops were fired on as they entered the camp, west of the city of Kandahar on Thursday night
• CNN.com 24 May 2002: Mueller: Justice Department to launch FBI probe - Coleen Rowley wrote a letter this week to Mueller and key members of Congress complaining about the way FBI headquarters handled information on suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and other terrorism-related investigations
• The Age 25 May 2002: Cuba detainees claim maltreatment - Bribery and maltreatment have been alleged by the two Australians the United States is holding in Cuba on suspicion of links to al Qaeda
• CBSNEWS.com 27 May 2002: Shook Up, FBI Plans Changes - The FBI is moving forward with a major reorganization amid criticism the agency missed clues that would have helped uncover the Sept. 11 plot, congressional Republicans said Sunday
• disinformation 30 May 2002: FBI gets even more power - New Justice Department guidelines to be unveiled today will give FBI agents latitude to monitor Internet sites, libraries and religious institutions without first having to offer evidence of potential criminal activity, officials said yesterday
• Public Integrity 01 June 2002: Victor Bout Denies Involvement in Arms Traffic - Alleged Russian arms trafficker Victor Bout denied that he had any links to the al Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden and no role in shipping weapons to Afghanistan
• CNN.com 03 Jun 2002: Senator has tough questions for FBI - "There were a number of bits and pieces, and they weren't put together," Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on CNN's "Late Edition."
• FOXNews.com 03 June 2002: Feds Warn of Nukes in Wrong Hands - At a regional security conference in Singapore, Wolfowitz said the concern that "nuclear weapons or scientists with nuclear expertise [could] fall into the hands of rogue regimes or terrorist groups is a very, very real one." 
• washingtonpost.com 03 June 2002: CIA Failed To Share Intelligence On Hijacker - The CIA possessed disturbing information about one of the Sept. 11 hijackers months before it was previously disclosed and could have used that knowledge to prevent him from renewing his visa to enter the United States prior to the attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, a senior administration official said yesterday
• Los Angeles Times 12 June 2002: Slowly Stalking an Afghan 'Lion' - When Sept. 11 dawned here, charismatic Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masoud was stashed in a refrigerator at a Tajikistan morgue--killed 48 hours earlier by Al Qaeda assassins.
• Los Angeles Times 23 June 2002: Intelligence Officers Read Between the Enemy LInes - Among the more than 20,000 documents recovered are lists of Al Qaeda leaders killed in battle, detailed diaries from terrorist training camps and long-winded letters to Arab leaders from Osama bin Laden
• CNN.com 29 June 2002: Pakistan releases 'Most Wanted' list - Pakistan police have appealed for public help in capturing some of the country's most wanted, releasing photos of 11 Islamic militants suspected in recent bombings and the kidnap murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl
• Los Angeles Times 30 June 2002: Pakistan Puts 11 Men on Wanted List in Killings - Police published photos of the 11 men, along with notices of rewards totaling about $330,000, in newspapers
• The Christian Science Monitor 01 Jul 2002: Jordan foils Al Qaeda plot to attach US - The arrest of 11 suspected militants – who are said to have Al Qaeda ties – may have short-circuited plans to attack a variety of US and Israeli targets in the area
• CNN.com 02 Jul 2002: Al Qaeda may be planning attacks - Although there are no specific indications about what targets al Qaeda may hope to attack, there are "a lot of indications that something is up," one U.S. intelligence official said
• The Christian Science Monitor 02 July 2002: Al Qaeda thriving in Pakistani Kashmir - Sheltered by Pakistani intelligence, officially banned Islamic militants are moving freely near the Indian border
• CBSNews.com 04 Jul 2002: Where in the World is Bin Laden? - Whether Bin Laden is alive or dead isn't certain, but as CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports U.S. officials see more and more signs that what Gaith had to say about al Qaeda is true
• CBSNews.com 10 Jul 2002: The War: Nine Months Later - Most Americans continue to think the war in Afghanistan is going well for the U.S., despite the assassination of one of Afghanistan's vice presidents
• Los Angeles Times 10 Jul 2002: U.S. Seeks 29 Who Gained Visas in Scheme - Two men who roomed with suspected hijackers in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are among the 71 people who obtained the illicit visas, officials said
• PressTelegram.com 10 Jul 2002: Al-Qaida spokesmen say terror group planning new attacks against America - A key al-Qaida spokesman has made a new threat to attack American targets and urged Muslims the world over to "kill enemies of God everywhere."
• FOXNews.com 12 Jul 2002: FBI Searches for Americans Suspected of Advising Al Qaeda Sleeper Cells - There may be as many as 5,000 people in the United States linked to Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network, intelligence officials estimate
• Economist.com 12 July 2002: Fragile Afghanistan - The government of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s interim president, is in serious trouble. The accidental bombing of a wedding by American forces, and then the assassination of a senior figure in Mr Karzai’s government, threaten to shatter the country's fragile unity
• Los Angeles Times 12 Jul 2002: Terror Cells Active in U.S. - The Al Qaeda terrorist organization maintains an aggressive network of underground "sleeper" cells in the United States and is trying to smuggle even more terrorists into the country by having them pose as ordinary visitors, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft said Thursday
• Los Angeles Times 13 Jul 2002: Links to Terrorism Probed in Northwest - SEATTLE -- A regional terrorism task force is investigating a possible terrorist cell here composed of suspected Muslim radicals with links to an Al Qaeda recruiter in London as well as the former Taliban leadership in Afghanistan and a "jihad training camp" in rural Oregon, according to interviews and an investigative document obtained by The Times
• FOXNews.com 14 Jul 2002: U.S. Inquiry Said to Focus on Two Seattle Mosques - Members of a pair of now-defunct mosques in Seattle are being investigated as having possible ties to the international Al Qaeda terrorist network
• MSNBC 14 Jul 2002: Zubaydah at U.S. Base - One of Osama bin Laden’s top deputies, Abu Zubaydah, is being held at a U.S. naval facility on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, Time magazine reported on Sunday
• BBC News 15 Jul 2002: US 'still thinking' on Iraq - Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said that the Iraqi leader was too dangerous a threat to ignore and would have to be tackled
• CBSNews.com 15 July 2002: Arab Journo: Terror Chief Lives - Osama bin Laden is alive and in good health after being wounded in an attack on his base in Afghanistan in December, an Arab journalist with close ties to the Saudi-born militant's associates said on Monday
• CNN.com 15 Jul 2002: 'I plead guilty,' Taliban American says - The 21-year-old American who fought last year with the Taliban in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Monday to two charges in an agreement with U.S. prosecutors that could keep him in prison for 20 years
• CNN.com 15 Jul 2002: Bin Laden 'wounded' in attack - Osama bin Laden is in good health after recovering from a shrapnel wound inflicted in December, according to an Arabic-language magazine editor
• FOXNews.com 15 Jul 2002: Taliban John Could Be Witness Against Terrorist - John Walker Lindh's guilty pleas enable the government to avoid revealing any sensitive information at trial, gain a potentially valuable witness against other accused terrorists and potentially eliminate a public relations headache

• FOXNews.com 15 Jul 2002: Canadian Destroyer Chases Down Two Al Qaeda Suspects - The Canadian navy captured two men with suspected terrorist links after a nighttime chase in the north Arabian Sea and handed them over to the United States, Canadian military officials said Monday

• CBSNews.com 17 Jul 2002: FBI Official Thinks Bin Laden is Dead - FBI counterterrorism chief Dale Watson said Wednesday he believes Osama bin Laden is dead — the first time a senior U.S. law enforcement official has publicly given an opinion on the al Qaeda leader's status

• MSNBC.com 18 Jul 2002: Pakistan arrests 7 al-Qaida suspects - Seven suspected al-Qaida agents were arrested in a posh area of Peshawar, Pakistan, in predawn raids on Thursday, but the main targets of the operation evaded authorities, according to security officials speaking on condition of anonymity

• CBS News 19 Jul 2002: 'I Am A Member Of Al Qaeda' - Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged as a Sept. 11 conspirator, attempted to plead guilty Thursday to new federal charges that could bring him the death penalty

• FOXNews.com 19 Jul 2002: French Navy Nabs Two Al Qaeda Suspects in Persian Gulf - The two were captured Wednesday by the French ship Guepratte, marking the second time this week that Al Qaeda suspects have been captured at sea

• KTLA - Los Angeles Times 19 Jul 2002: U.S. Drops Bomb as Two Afghan Factions Clash - A U.S. jet dropped a bomb as a show of force Thursday after Afghan troops swooped into an area of eastern Afghanistan in a raid that left a warlord's brother dead, U.S. and Afghan officials said

• MSNBC.com 20 Jul 2002: U.S. hold suspected al Qaeda trainee - U.S. Customs agents have arrested a Jordanian-born man who was allegedly carrying $12 million in false cashier’s checks, alarming counterterrorism officials who said the suspect may have been trained in al Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan

• TIME.com 21 Jul 2002: How Bin Laden Got Away - An officer of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), speaking on condition of anonymity, tells TIME that bin Laden was last seen on November 17, departing the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan in anticipation of the imminent collapse of the Taliban regime

• Christian Science Monitor 22 Jul 2002: The war on terror's money - According to a six-month investigation that led to his arrest in May, Bazaz was the key link in a money trail between British charity groups, Kashmiri politicians, and members of violent Kashmiri terrorist groups

• CBSNews.com 25 Ju 2002: Moussaoui's Casserole Of Guilt - Among the many problems Zacarias Moussaoui has right now, in the wake of Thursday's disaster of an arraignment, is his insistence on trying to tweak long-established judicial rules in order to get the result he says he wants

• Los Angeles Times 25 Jul 2002: Man Held in Pakistan Bomb Plot - A member of an extremist group linked to Al Qaeda was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of financing and planning a June car bombing at the U.S. Consulate here that killed 12 Pakistanis, officials said

• Christian Science Monitor 26 Ju 2002: US ships Al Qaeda suspects to Arab states - One reason for this new approach, US officials privately say, is that in some cases these militants' home countries have a better understanding of Islamist groups, their contacts, customs, and language

• CNN.com 26 Jul 2002: Moussaoui withdraws bid to plead guilty - First, Moussaoui stated that he wanted to plead guilty to the four death penalty-eligible conspiracy charges against him and then retreated from his position when he realized there was no way he could do that and continue to deny a role in the September 11 attacks

• New York Times 28 Jul 2002: Colleges and High Schools to Observe 9/11 - The 1,100 students who attend Earlham College in West Richmond, Ind., can expect to spend at least part of Sept. 10 in workshops that recreate what they were thinking and doing on that date last year — and considering, in hindsight, how narrow their views of the world were

• Los Angeles Times 29 Jul 2002: FBI Plans to Fight Terror With High-Tech Arsenal - Since Sept. 11, the FBI has budgeted tens of millions of dollars to turn its massive collection of computerized case files, memos, tips and phone intercepts from an investigative black hole into a mother lode of predictive intelligence

• CNN.com 29 Jul 2002: Concern over ASEAN anti-terror treaty - The ASEAN summit -- involving Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam -- will discuss regional measures against global terrorism

• Time.com 29 Jul 2002: Al-Qaeda's New Hideouts - Chased out of Afghanistan, bin Laden's fighters are lying low — but are hot to strike back — in Pakistan

• Times Online 29 Jul 2002: US accused of airstrike cover-up - AMERICAN forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan civilians this month, according to a draft United Nations report seen by The Times 

• Christian Science Monitor 29 Jul 2002: Firefight shows strong Al Qaeda persistence - By the time the four-and-half hour gunbattle was over, three Arabs and two Afghans were killed. Five Americans and seven Afghans were injured, two of the Americans seriously injured and evacuated to Germany Sunday, according to US military spokesmen at Bagram Air Base in Kabul

• CBSNews.com 29 Jul 2002: Bin Laden Son Climbing Qaeda Ranks - Saad bin Laden has gained so much new authority that U.S. counterterrorism officials now name him among their top two dozen targets in al Qaeda

• Christian Science Monitor 30 Jul 2002: Arab elite warms to Al Qaeda leaders - Mahfouz Azzam is a prominent Egyptian lawyer who proudly describes himself as an uncle and godfather to Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al Zawahiri

• MSNBC 30 Jul 2002: Bin Laden bodyguards held by U.S. - But the fact that some of bin Laden’s bodyguards have been captured does not necessarily indicate bin Laden is dead

• CBSNews.com 31 Jul 2002: Sept. 11 ID Seller Flees U.S. - A man who authorities said sold fake identification to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers apparently left on a flight to Egypt hours before authorities raided his home and businesses Wednesday, officials said

• CBSNews.com 31 Jul 2002: Bin Laden Bodyguards Held At Gitmo - Some of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's bodyguards have been in U.S. custody since February at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials say

• Economist.com 01 Aug 2002: Terror in South-East Asia - The arrival in January of 1,200 American soldiers in sleepy Basilan island in the southern Philippines drew attention to a wider threat of international terrorism in South-East Asia

• CNN.com 01 Aug 2002: Man suspected of selling IDs to hijackers - Authorities said Mohamed El Atriss, 45, who is considered a fugitive, faces 28 charges involving the manufacture and distribution of fraudulent documents

• Washingtonpost.com 01 Aug 2002: U.S. Holding Canadian in Embassy Bomb Plot - Canadian man accused of organizing a plot to blow up U.S. and Israeli embassies in Singapore is being held in a secret location in the United States, where he is cooperating and revealing information about terrorists' plans, U.S. officials said

• Christian Science Monitor 02 Aug 2002: Failed plot shows Al Qaeda hand - Kabul police officials say they have received reports from Afghan intelligence sources that there may be as many as 25 armed Al Qaeda members in Kabul, ready to strike Afghan ministers, foreign diplomats, US representatives, or foreign aid workers

• BBC News 03 Aug 2002: US judge outlaws secret arrests - A US federal judge has ordered the government to disclose within 15 days the names of suspects being held in connection with the 11 September attacks

• CBSNews.com 15 Aug 2002: Partial DOJ Victory on Detainees - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Bush administration does not have to immediately reveal the names of those detained in the investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

• CBSNews.com 26 Aug 2002: New Effort Against Al Qaeda Forces - The U.S. military said on Thursday U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan militiamen had launched a fresh operation to root out al Qaeda fighters in southeastern Afghanistan

• CBSNews.com 28 Aug 2002: Osama's Status Still In Question - Afghanistan's foreign minister believes most al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives, including Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar, are in hiding across the border in northwest Pakistan

• Guardian Unlimited Observer 08 Sep 2002: 'Terrorists' upstairs in Flat 26 - Friends and relatives of the two young people arrested on suspicion of planning a spectacular bomb attack on the anniversary of 11 September described them yesterday as an outwardly normal couple

• disinformation 08 Sep 2002: FBI informant lived with two 9/11 hijackers - At first, FBI director Bob Mueller insisted there was nothing the bureau could have done to penetrate the 9-11 plot. That account has been modified over time—and now may change again. NEWSWEEK has learned that one of the bureau’s informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers: he was their roommate

• Economist.com 09 Sep 2002: The hunt gets harder - At least one plot has been foiled to attack American interests on September 11th, with the recent arrest of a 25-year-old, German-born Turk

• CBSNews.com 09 Sep 2002: U.S. Steps Up Border Hunt For Osama - U.S. commanders appear to have concluded that Osama bin Laden is moving among mountain hideouts along a 250-mile stretch of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to a published report

• CNN.com 09 Sep 2002: Al-Jazeera: Bin Laden tape praises hijackers - "There aren't enough words to describe how great these men were and how great their deeds were," bin Laden said in an audiotape message played Monday by the Qatar-based, Arabic-language television news network Al-Jazeera

• CATO Institute 11 Sep 2002: The Cato Institute's Scholars on September 11, 2001 - In commemoration of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Cato Institute presents a series of studies and opinion pieces our scholars have published over the past year addressing the attacks themselves, the American response, civil liberties in wartime, and the road ahead

• The New York Times 11 Sep 2002: A Nation Challenged: How We Cope With Death - ... one year after the attack on the World Trade Center, nearly half of all New York City residents say the event has not changed their lives

• disinformation 11 Sep 2002: mainstream media on 9/11 foreknowledge: the government knew airplane attacks were going to occur in the us - Below you’ll find the Cliff’s Notes version of official actions which indicate the attacks were foreseen. There is much more than this, of course--enough to fill entire books

• CBSNews.com 11 Sep 2002: Bush: We'll Answer History's Call - He cautioned Americans that the United States has "determined enemies" and is "not invulnerable to their attacks."

• Washingtonpost.com 11 Sep 2002: 9/11 Report Raises Questions - The U.S. intelligence community received a surprising number of credible reports of a likely terrorist attack prior to Sept. 11, including some threats to domestic targets, according to a congressional report unveiled today

• FOXNews.com 11 Sep 2002: Suspected Al Qaeda Financier Nabbed - Troops also detained at least eight other people and seized more than 150 Kalashnikov assault rifles, 200 explosive booby traps, a mortar, several cases of hand grenades, rocket launchers, rockets, heavy machine guns and military communications equipment, said Lt. Col. Martin Schweitzer, commander of the 82nd Airborne's 3rd Battalion.

• Washingtonpost.com 12 Sep 2002: Detainee Called Key Al Qaeda Figure In Southeast Asia - Omar al-Farouq, the detainee whose information prompted the United States to raise its terrorist threat indicator for the first time, is al Qaeda's facilitator for Southeast Asia and reported directly to Abu Zubaida, the terror group's senior operations coordinator, government sources said yesterday

• smh.com.au 12 Sep 2002: Suspected top Al-Qaeda financier captured - US forces have captured a man believed to be a top financier for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network or the Taliban during operations in southeastern Afghanistan, the military said today

• CNN.com 12 Sep 2002: Bush tells nation: 'A mission goes on' - 'What our enemies have begun, we will finish'

• FOXNews.com 13 Sep 2002:  Sept. 11 Planner Arrested: Suspected Terror Cell Busted in Buffalo - In a double whammy on the war on terror, U.S. authorities in Pakistan arrested a man suspected to be a major planner of the Sept. 11 attacks and also arrested five members of a suspected terror cell near Buffalo, N.Y.

• ArabNews 15 Sep 2002: Key 9/11 suspect held - US and Pakistani officials were questioning key Al-Qaeda suspect Ramzi Binalshibh yesterday after arresting him on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks he is accused of helping to plan

• Christian Science Monitor 16 Sep 2002: 'War on terror' moves toward Iran - A secret new US Special Forces mission to hunt down Al Qaeda along Afghanistan's border with Iran is triggering cross-border accusations of espionage, amid persistent suspicions that Iran is harboring terrorists

• MSNBC.com 16 Sep 2002: New arrest linked to N.Y. sweep - A sixth man from western New York has been arrested in connection to the five charged over the weekend with supporting al-Qaida terrorists, The New York Times reported Monday

• Los Angeles Times 16 Sep 2002: Terror Suspect Likely to Face Charges in U.S. - Signs mounted Sunday that Ramzi Binalshibh, the man believed to have been the lead coordinator of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will be extradited to the U.S. to face charges for those crimes

• CBSNews.com 20 Sep 2002: Bush Backs Independent 9/11 Probe - But families of those killed in the attacks aren't buying it. Stephen Push, who lost his wife on American Flight 77, said the White House's independent 9/11 commission, proposed late Friday, today wouldn't not go far enough

• Christian Science Monitor 20 Sep 2002: Is war on Iraq inevitable? - In Washington, the steady din of the Bush administration's sword-rattling may be obscuring the fact that possibilities remain for the United States and Iraq to settle their differences without going to war

• Los Angeles Times 21 Sep 2002: Panel Told of Pre-9/11 Breakdowns - The CIA failed repeatedly before Sept. 11 to share key information with the FBI about two Al Qaeda suspects who became hijackers in last year's attacks, even after learning the men held U.S. visas, were in the United States, and had links to the bombing of the destroyer Cole, congressional investigators disclosed Friday

• CBSNews.com 04 Oct 2002: Remorseful Lindh Gets 20 Years - John Walker Lindh, an American who became a Muslim holy warrior, received a 20-year sentence Friday after tearfully asking forgiveness for serving the Taliban rulers who sheltered Osama bin Laden and his terrorist leadership in Afghanistan

• CBSNews.com 04 Oct 2002: 'Shoe Bomber' Pleads Guilty - man accused of trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes pleaded guilty Friday after declaring himself a follower of Osama bin Laden

• FOXNews.com 04 Oct 2002: FBI Charges Six With Terrorism -  Hailing a "defining day" in the fight against terrorism, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the arrests of four people in Oregon and Michigan on Friday on charges of conspiring to wage war on the United States and support Al Qaeda

• CNN.com 05 Oct 2002: Three of 6 accused terrorists appear in court - Three of the six U.S. residents charged with conspiring to assist al Qaeda and the Taliban in waging war against the United States made initial appearances in federal court Friday

• washingtonpost.com 06 Oct 2002: Purported Bin Laden Tape Says More Attacks Planned - The Arab satellite station al-Jazeera broadcast an audiotape today in which a male voice attributed to Osama bin Laden said the "youths of God" are planning more attacks against the United States

• Times Online 07 Oct 2002: Terrorist alert after oil tanker 'attack' - The spectre of al-Qaeda was raised yesterday after an explosion ripped through the hull of a French oil tanker moments after the crew spotted a small boat speeding towards its side

• Los Angeles Times 06 Oct 2002: Sketchy Details in Oregon Case - The alleged terrorists headed for Afghanistan at a time when the Taliban was on the run. They left the United States at a time when, authorities say, Al Qaeda's leadership was eager to have recruits on the ground here

• BBC News 21 Nov 2003: Is al-Qaeda behind the attacks? Can we be sure that al-Qaeda was behind the latest attacks? Not until the individuals behind the attacks are discovered and their personal histories told.

• BBC News 17 Dec 2003: Saddam down, Bin Laden next? - United States forces have caught Saddam Hussein, but can they now nail their other most wanted man, Osama Bin Laden?

• BBC News: 29 Dec 2003: 'Bin Laden blasts Iraq crusade' -  An audiotape thought to be from the al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden said the war in Iraq is part of a "crusade" against Muslims

• BBC News 05 Jan 2004: Tape 'probably Bin Laden' - CIA source told the BBC the finding was based on technical analysis of the tape, which was broadcast on Sunday

• CBSNews.com 09 Jan 2004: Colin Powell's To Do List - ... as long as Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, the former head of Afghanistan's Taliban regime, are still at large, diplomacy will take a back seat to the pentagon's effort to break the back of continued Taliban resistance

• New York Times 09 Jan 2004: Powell Admits No Hard Proof in Linking Iraq to Al Qadea - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell conceded Thursday that despite his assertions to the United Nations last year, he had no "smoking gun" proof of a link between the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorists of Al Qaeda

• LATimes.com 11 Jan 2004: The Barreling Bushes - The family even has links to the Bin Ladens — though not to family black sheep Osama bin Laden — going back to the 1970s.

• New York Times 14 Jan 2004: Hussein Warned Iraqis to Beware Outside Fighters, Document Says - Saddam Hussein warned his Iraqi supporters to be wary of joining forces with foreign Arab fighters entering Iraq to battle American troops, according to a document found with the former Iraqi leader when he was captured, Bush administration officials said Tuesday

• New York Times 15 Jan 2004: F.B.I. Director Calls Attack Quite Likely - The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, said on Wednesday that terrorists would "quite probably" strike the United States again and that Al Qaeda remained a major threat despite the lowering of the nation's threat status last week.

• CBSNews.com 14 Feb 2004P Qaeda Tapes Taunt U.S., France - Two audiotapes purported to be from Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, aired on Arabic TV stations Tuesday, one taunting President Bush and threatening more attacks, and the other criticizing France's decision to ban Islamic headscarves in schools

• LATimes.com 28 Feb 2004: U.S. Search for Bin Laden Gathers Steam - The United States is rounding up and questioning the relatives of fugitive al-Qaida leaders to generate information on the possible whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his top deputies. This tactic helped lead to Saddam Hussein's capture

• TIME.com 15 Mar 2004: Did al-Qaeda Change Spain's Regime? - The Madrid bombing made the election a referendum on Iraq. Now, bin Laden's movement could develop a taste for preelection terror

• Reuters 17 Mar 2004: Purported Al Qaeda Letter Calls Truce in Spain - A group claiming to have links with al Qaeda said on Wednesday it was calling a truce in its Spanish operations to see if the new Madrid government would withdraw its troops from Iraq, a pan-Arab newspaper says

• CNN.com 21 Mar 2004: Pakistan fighting slows amid talks - The fighting attracted global attention when Pakistani officials, expressing surprise at the ferocity of the resistance encountered in southern Waziristan, suggested al Qaeda's No. 2, Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri could be hiding out there

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