June 15, 2004

Spanish Judge Ties Suspects To 9/11 Washington Post - A Spanish investigating judge today said he had concluded a comprehensive, eight-year probe into Islamic extremist activity in Spain, and his report will likely lead to formal charges and trials for 15 suspected militants accused of helping to plan the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, according to media reports here citing the unreleased document.  10:27:26 PM

The United Nation's anti-corruption department has been rocked by accusations that the office itself is corrupt. The head of the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services, Undersecretary-General Dileep Nair (search), has been accused of promoting and recruiting people in ways that are not consistent with U.N. rules and regulations. Also, a senior investigator has been suspended and there have been accusations of financial and sexual misconduct. This is the group that should be helping Iraq? 10:21:16 PM

Iran massing troops on Iraq border Iran reportedly is readying troops to move into Iraq if U.S. troops pull out, leaving a security vacuum. The Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, monitored in Beirut, reports Iran has massed four battalions at the border. 4:10:52 PM

Death penalty worm spreading ComputerWeekly.com, UK - A multilingual worm, Zafi-B, is rapidly spreading using peer-to-peer file sharing networks and e-mail according to anti-virus supplier Sophos. Symantec is calling it W32.Erkez.B , and already has a FREE removal tool. 1:57:15 PM

Blackout hits major Web sites CNET News.com - A domain name outage Tuesday morning left many popular Web sites such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.com and Apple.com temporarily inaccessible, according to a Web research company. 1:56:03 PM