A U.S. airstrike killed most-wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq; Hamas called off a self-declared ceasefire with Israel, launching numerous rockets into Israeli territory; Egypt alleged that the suicide bombers that attacked resorts in the Sinai last year were trained by Hamas.

Canadian police announced the arrest of 17 individuals accused of plotting major terror attacks against Canada; militant Islamists in Somalia claimed Monday to have taken control of the capital city; British police raided an East London home housing two men accused of terrorist ties.

Pakistan has handed over a top al-Qaeda suspect to U.S. officials, according to a Reuters report citing Pakistani intelligence officers; hundreds of British police officers participated in raids that arrested nine suspected terrorists across the UK; the E.U. added the Tamil Tigers to their list of banned terrorist groups, while Tamil militants continued to launch deadly attacks in Sri Lanka.

Israel launched a series of actions against Palestinian terrorists, including the arrest of the head of the Hamas Military Wing in the West Bank and the targeted killing of Islamic Jihad's most senior militant in Gaza; Egypt claimed for the first time that Palestinians had aided in the recent Sinai Bombings; coalition forces killed hundreds of Taliban fighters following a new wave of deadly Taliban attacks against civilians and military targets in Afghanistan.

A U.S. military spokesman said that al-Qaeda in Iraq is increasingly targeting civilians, with attacks against Iraqis up more than 80 percent from six months ago; two Hamas members captured by Jordanian authorities last month confessed on Jordanian television that they had received military training in Syria; the bodies of 26 people, mostly children, were found in a cave in Algeria used by the al-Qaeda-linked Salafist Group for Call and Combat.

Coalition forces released captured outtakes of a recent Abu Musab al-Zarqawi video showing his apparent inability to operate his machine gun; Egyptian police killed the leader of the Monotheism and Jihad terror group; fighting between an Islamic militia and "anti-terrorism" warlords in Somalia's capital killed at least 57 people.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah admitted for the first time that his organization funds Palestinian terror groups; British intelligence sources told a London newspaper that insurgents linked to Iran are using multi-charged roadside bombs, developed by Hezbollah in Lebanon, against coalition soldiers in Iraq; former professor Sami al-Arian was sentenced to the maximum 57 months in prison for his support of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group.

On September 30th, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed; the resulting riots, often fanned by repressive governments and radical Islamist organizations, threw light into the deep chasm between Western concepts of freedom of the press and the strict control placed on media throughout much of the Muslim world. Reporters Without Borders, in its 2005 annual report, singled out the Middle East for its history of oppressing free speech and the media. A review of the region shows that all too often western concepts of freedom of the press are non-existent or severely curtailed; this oppression of the media is a significant obstacle to the growth of liberal democracy in the region.

At least 30 people were killed by three blasts which stuck the Egyptian resort town of Dahab; both Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi released new propaganda tapes; relations between Jordan and the new Hamas-led Palestinian government deteriorated after multiple discoveries of weapons smuggled by Hamas members from Syria into Jordan.

Islamic Jihad launched a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, killing nine civilians - Hamas leaders refused to condemn the attack, blaming Israel instead; former Florida professor Sami al-Arian reversed years of denials and plead guilty to aiding the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group; 41 Taliban members were killed in a coalition attack on Taliban hideouts.

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