The trial of Florida Professor Sami al-Arian began this week. Al-Arian has long been suspected of running American front groups that raised funds for Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Pakistani authorities announced the arrest of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a Libyan who is believed to be al-Qaeda's chief operating officer. His capture has led to a series of arrests of al-Qaeda members.

The State Department released a report showing that the number of significant terrorist attacks worldwide tripled in 2004. Iran was the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2004.

The U.S. revealed this week that it had nearly captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in February. While Zarqawi escaped, a senior lieutenant of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was captured along with a computer that reportedly contained information that further confirmed the close links between bin Laden and Zarqawi.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for two suicide car bombings that killed at least 15 people. In separate attacks, suicide bombers also killed an American aid worker and a dozen people outside an Iraqi army recruitment center.

The U.S. indicted three alleged al-Qaeda members who had reportedly scouted targets in New York, Newark, and Washington. The three were among eight picked up last summer by British authorities after an investigation in Pakistan turned up computer files naming the suspects.

European audiovisual regulators agreed to oppose broadcasts that incite hate and violence, and the Netherlands announced that it would remove Hezbollah's al-Manar television from the New Skies Satellite system. This is the latest in a series of actions taken against al-Manar by governments around the world.

In the largest pro-democracy protest in the history of the modern Middle East, an estimated million or more supporters of Lebanese independence gathered in Beirut in response to recent pro-Syrian demonstrations organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah.

In a major speech on terrorism and the prospects for democracy in the Middle East, President Bush encouraged Lebanese democracy activists and continued to pressure Syria to end its occupation.

Lebanese and international outrage against Syria continued to grow, with mass anti-Syrian demonstrations in Beirut – called by some the "Cedar Revolution" - prompting the resignation of Lebanon's Syria-backed government.

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