by Josh Greenberger

How did terrorism, which has been around for centuries, go from a sporadic, often localized, atrocity to a global threat in the 21st Century? Are terrorists recruiting more vigorously? Do terrorist have more reasons to hate? Or have terrorists gotten more support than ever before?

A close look at some events in recent years seems to indicate it's the latter. What's most disturbing, though, is that the greatest motivational support has come not from internal sources or...

The sheer brutality of this move by the dasturdly American Superpower is sure to leave Dear Leader quaking in his boots. It's bad enough having to give up caviar and Rolexs, but with no Playstation under the Lenin Tree, I just don't see how the regime can withstand these kinds of pressure tactics. Something has got to give! Read more at http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/si...ey/16123408.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats won a cliffhanger race in Montana on Wednesday that took them to the brink of control of the Senate, after Americans sick of scandal and weary of war brought down the Republican House majority.

"It was a thumpin,'" President Bush told reporters at a White House news conference.

Reflecting the redrawn Washington landscape, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld agreed to step down, satisfying Democratic demands.

With Democrats now assured of 50 Senate seats,...

Angry, shaking and defiant, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death this morning by hanging for ordering the massacre of Iraqi civilians

He shouted: "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest) and "Long live the nation!", pointing defiantly at the judge.

Looking defiant and bitter as the verdict was delivered, he continued to shout "Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!"

He had refused to stand for the verdict and had to be lifted...

Lawmakers across party lines on Tuesday endorsed the prime minister's new plan for stopping sectarian killings, but Shiite and Sunni leaders still had to work out details of how to put aside their sharp divisions and work together to halt the violence.

At least 33 people were killed in violence around Iraq, including a suicide attack on a fish market in Baghdad that killed three people and wounded 19. A bomber detonated a belt rigged with explosives in the outdoor market in the primarily...

Thailand's new ruling junta on Thursday announced a ban on meetings of political parties and barred the establishment of new parties. The announcement, made on all Thai television stations, said the...

A bomb blast Wednesday at Baghdad's largest and oldest wholesale market district killed at least 24 people and injured 35, according to the police.

The blast occurred at just before 10 a.m. at...

Half of America apparently still thinks Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003. This according to a new poll, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices...

Hezbollah launched a new kind of rocket Friday that made its deepest strike into Israel yet, rattling Israelis as their warplanes and artillery blasted apartment buildings and roads gunning for...

War protester Cindy Sheehan has purchased a 5-acre plot in Crawford with some of the insurance money she received after her son was killed in Iraq.

The group she helps lead, Gold Star Families for...