The ISI's new terror matrix comprises three major terrorist groups, at least half-a-dozen big and small front organisations with extremist ideology, spanning three countries.
The Washington Post quoting from the draft of the independent commission probing the attacks said the Al Qaeda leaders delayed the attacks after the lead hijacker was not ready.
A US airbase near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan sparks protests.
The warning came in a secret briefing that Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on August 6, 2001, an unnamed government official was quoted as saying by The New York Times on Friday.
No let up in crackdown on terror, says Musharraf
'Declaring Pakistan a non-NATO ally has no link with military operations in Pakistan. We give that status to countries that have special relations with us,'says US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Powell has spoken with Pakistan president General Musharraf at least 81 times since September 11, 2001.
Senior Pakistani officials told Financial Times that George Tenet discussed operations along the Afghan border to nab Osama bin Laden.
While the chances of an Al Qaeda-mounted operation outside Iraq to avenge Saddam's execution are thus minimal, there is a greater danger of individual Muslims in the overseas diaspora carrying out acts of terrorism to avenge his execution
Sky News mistakenly identified a former Tunisian World Cup football star as a disciple of Osama bin Laden.
Besides New York and Washington, the tallest tower in Los Angeles was also on a list of targets discussed by Mohammed and Osama bin Laden back in 1996.
Tayseer Allouni, who interviewed Osama bin Laden in 2001, is thought to have helped two members of the Al-Qaeda.
It was the first document to emerge from what the military described as a ''treasure trove'' of information when Zarqawi was killed, the newspaper reported.
A senior Chinese diplomat was among those injured in terrorist attack.
'We're there until the Iraqi people have a democracy and make sure they are not a threat to their neighbors.' General Richard B Myers talks to Hamid Mir.
If a new leader emerges who is able to rally Al Qaeda cadres around and motivate them to act, we may still face new acts of mass casualty terrorism, warns B Raman
Bhutto says she is the only alternative in the country between the Musharraf dictatorship and the religious fundamentalists.
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