BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold.  

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A roadside bomb hit a police vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two officers, an official said. 

By Roger Weeder
CAMP BLANDING, FL - The newly created 779th Engineer Battalion is training this week knowing early next year Iraq is the next stop.  

TAMPA, FL (AP) -- An Egyptian college student facing federal explosives charges is out on bail after his Tampa trial was delayed. 

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The weekend plot to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai was masterminded by militants with links to al-Qaida members who reside in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, an Afghan intelligence official said Thursday. 

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia was killed in an overnight airstrike along with 10 other people, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday. 

By Grayson Kamm

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- First Coast fishermen aren't just keeping an eye out for the catch of the day; the government wants them to be on the
lookout for terrorists. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist the country's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the country's 95,000 miles of coastline and inland waterways. 

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A spate of suicide bombings and other attacks on security forces in southern Afghanistan Wednesday left 13 people dead and 24 others wounded, officials said. 

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said. 

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI began the final day of his American journey by blessing the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and pleading with God to bring "peace to our violent world." 

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- A man claiming to be the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq is vowing to launch a monthlong offensive against American troops in a new audiotape. 

MIAMI (AP) -- Convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla is now at a federal prison in Colorado known as "Supermax" for its strict conditions. 

TAMPA, FL (AP) -- Lawyers for an Egyptian college student accused of illegally carrying explosive materials are asking to delay the upcoming trial. 

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's No. 2 said in an audiotape released Friday that the United States will lose whether it stays in Iraq or withdraws, and he sneered that President Bush just wants to pass the problem on to his successor.