Not enough agents for immigrant tracking
WASHINGTON -- With great fanfare, the Bush administration has pledged to fortify the nation's antiterrorism protections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new computer systems to keep tabs on millions of foreign students and visitors.

Experts contend racial profiling at airports works
The current system of random selection isn't effective, but civil libertarians continue to urge caution.

Is bin Laden dead? DNA may answer
WASHINGTON -- The government is seeking samples of DNA from Osama bin Laden's family to determine if human remains found in Afghanistan belong to the terrorist leader, the Associated Press reported Wednesday, citing law enforcement and other U.S. officials it did not name.

20 arrested at Boston airport
BOSTON -- Twenty workers at Logan International Airport, including six security screeners, were charged Wednesday with lying to get their jobs or security badges.

Success of scan machines questioned
WASHINGTON -- The $1-million machines the government plans to deploy by the hundreds to scan airline baggage for bombs have been foiled repeatedly by undercover teams simulating terrorists, a veteran federal agent charged Wednesday.

Fighting terror notebook
$5-million reward offered in Pearl case

Muslim mob sets fire to Indian train, killing 57
GODHRA, India -- Muslim attackers armed with stones and kerosene descended on a train carrying hundreds of Hindu nationalists Wednesday, setting fire to four cars and killing 57 people.