From The Boston Globe archives
US puts gulf forces on terrorism alert
WASHINGTON -- Following a threat against an unspecified American target in the Middle East, US military forces in the Persian Gulf region went on their highest state of alert, US officials said. 06/23/01
Four guilty in embassy bombings
NEW YORK -- A federal jury found four loyalists of reputed terrorist Osama bin Laden guilty of participating in a worldwide conspiracy that resulted in the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in Africa. The blasts killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. 05/30/01
Analysts see threat of terrorism by foes of globalization
As opponents of globalization become increasingly vocal, organized, and sophisticated, analysts say, there are indications that some extreme elements in the movement are poised to cross over into forms of violence more dangerous than window-smashing, stone-throwing, or computer hacking. 02/08/01
Former aide to bin Laden testifies
NEW YORK -- A onetime aide to Osama bin Laden took the stand as a government witness, explaining the origins, structure, and early history of what he called Osama bin Laden's plans to fight America and kill its people. 02/07/01
A wide plot to kill Americans alleged in embassy bomb trial
NEW YORK -- The trial of the United States v. Osama bin Laden opened with a federal prosecutor accusing alleged members of bin Laden's terror gang of staging the deadly 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa as part of a conspiracy to "kill US nationals anywhere in the world." 02/06/01
Editorial: Long war on terror
There is one area in which the security prescriptions of President George W. Bush and his advisers herald no dramatic improvement over the Clinton policies. That is the challenge from international terrorism targeted at American soldiers, sailors, and civilians. 01/22/01
Trial begins for four accused in embassy attacks
NEW YORK -- Amid extraordinarily tight security at a downtown Manhattan federal courthouse, the US government launched its trial against four followers of Osama bin Laden for the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 01/04/01
Islamic rebels thrive in central Asia
NAMANGAN, Uzbekistan -- High in the Kuramin mountains, heavily armed Uzbek border guards watched nervously as cars approached, scanning for passengers who might be Islamic rebels, searching trunks for arms and checking documents. 12/31/00
Middle East shock waves
WASHINGTON -- Raising the specter of a new terror campaign against US interests, a bomb tore through the steel hull of a US Navy destroyer during a refueling stop in a harbor in Yemen, killing at least six American sailors. 10/13/00
Links probed in Pakistan bombings
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Officials of several nations sought to identify who had orchestrated a series of six nearly simultaneous rocket attacks that appeared to target US and UN buildings around Pakistan's capital. 11/13/99
US asks UN to take step against Taliban
UNITED NATIONS -- Apparently bolstered by Russia's new hard line toward Osama bin Laden, the United States introduced a Security Council resolution that would seize assets and that would ground international flights of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement until bin Laden is turned over to US authorities. 10/07/99
A year after embassy bombing, the threat of terror settles in
At no other time has the United States faced as great a threat from a devastating terrorist attack as it does now. 08/08/99
Where bin Laden is beloved, anti-US calls mount
MARDAN, Pakistan -- The 6-year-old boy watched intently as his father dusted off his favorite possession, a leather-bound scrapbook of Osama bin Laden, pausing at a photo of the Saudi dissident with a semiautomatic rifle tucked in the folds of his trademark white robe. 07/25/99
Editorial: Caution in pursuit of bin Laden
Governments generally prefer enemies who have what the Israelis call an address. Witness how convenient it was for Turkey that the Kurdish terrorist Abdullah Ocalan had been harbored for years in Syria. When the Turks were ready to pursue Ocalan in earnest, they threatened to invade Syria, and the shrewd Syrian dictator Hafez Assad sent his importunate guest packing. 03/11/99
