A federal judge in California ruled that President Bush does not have the constitutional authority to designate groups as terrorists; Israel and the Palestinians agreed upon a cease-fire in Gaza, but Palestinian groups continued to fire rockets into Israel; six car bombs killed 160 people in Sadr City in the bloodiest attack in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion.

Anti-Syrian political leader Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in Lebanon, in another attack aimed at undermining the democratically elected government;U.S. authorities brought terrorism charges against two men for providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah television to American consumers; an Israeli woman was killed by Palestinian rocket fire.

Israel launched a major military raid in Gaza in an attempt to end rocket fire targeting civilian populations; an al-Qaeda operative who pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to attack American and British landmarks was sentenced in London to life in prison; Egyptian authorities seized 3,000 pounds of TNT that were apparently to be used in terror attacks by Palestinian and Egyptian groups.

Twelve years after terrorists bombed a Jewish cultural center in Argentina, killing 85 people, Argentine prosecutors have officially accused Iranian leaders of masterminding the attack and are seeking the arrest of a former Iranian president and other officials; a strike against a Pakistani madrasa frequented by Ayman al-Zawahri and other al-Qaeda leaders killed 80 militants, including pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Liaqatullah; security officials in Yemen have arrested eight men, apparently all foreigners, in a weapons smuggling plot reportedly tied to al-Qaeda.

Adam Gadahn, an American who has appeared in al-Qaeda videos, was indicted for treason; Lynne Stewart, a lawyer convicted of passing along messages from her convicted terrorist client to his followers, was sentenced to 28 months in jail; a British man pleaded guilty to conspiring to bomb high-profile targets in the United States.

The IAEA has found a sharp rise in the smuggling of radioactive material that could be used to build a "dirty bomb," especially in Europe; reports claim that the Lebanese Army has confiscated weapons from Hezbollah for the first time;a BBC investigation has found that U.N. aid for earthquake victims in Pakistan went into the hands of Militant Islamists.

Palestinian infighting continued to grow as the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade threatened to kill Hamas leaders and as President Abbas announced that unity negotiations with Hamas had broken down; a tape reputedly recorded by the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq announced that 4,000 foreign jihadists have been killed in Iraq; Indian police claimed to have evidence that the Pakistani spy agency was behind this summer's Mumbai bombings.

British troops announced that they had killed Omar al-Farouq, a top lieutenant to Osama bin Laden who escaped from a prison in Afghanistan last summer; a poll released this week found that most Palestinians favor following Hezbollah tactics in their own fight against Israel; Al Arabiya television quoted a Taliban official as saying that Osama bin Laden is alive and in good health.

In Somalia, a car bomb attack killed 8 people and the Islamic militia which controls much of the country announced plans to open training camps to prepare for holy war; tribes in Iraq's Sunni-dominated Anbar region have united to fight against al-Qaeda and other foreign terrorists; three men were found guilty this week for their roles in the 1993 Mumbai bombings which killed 257 people.

Four men attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, attempting to detonate two car bombs and throwing grenades at the building before Syrian forces killed three of the attackers and apprehended the fourth; NATO forces have killed 500 Taliban fighters during a 10-day offensive; a blast at an Indian mosque killed at least 31 worshipers.

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