The bodies of the relatives of Osama bin Laden were “incinerated” when the private jet they were flying in crash-landed at a car auction site, a coroner has said.

Osama bin Laden urged followers to concentrate on attacking Americans during his years in hiding – and wrote bittersweet letters to one of his wives and his children.

Prosecutors have presented declassified al-Qaida documents obtained after the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound at the trial of a man accused of a British terror plot.

American and British military experts were today assessing the damage done to the Taliban cause after the allies finally struck at terror chief Osama bin Laden and his protectors.