Actions of world terrorist organizations

Author: Gu Yu
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: On November 4, 1998, the U.S. Department of State increased the reward amount from $2 million to $5 million, seeking clues to arrest the international terrorist Osama bin Laden and his military commander Mohammed Atta in various parts of the world, or to bring them to justice. U.S. Attorney General announced in the afternoon that the two were charged in the Southern District of New York's federal court with bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In addition to traditional terrorist threats, the smuggling and proliferation of nuclear weapons, biological, and chemical weapons; the widespread reach of the information superhighway has made terrorist activities highly dangerous. A U.S. intelligence official said that with sufficient funding and 20 skilled computer programmers, the entire United States could be brought to a halt. Some fearfully called it the "political plague of the 21st century," and the next century would enter a "super-terrorist era."