Detainees interrogated in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks gave US intelligence agents the breakthrough they needed to hunt down Osama bin Laden, senior Obama administration officials said.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s environmental adviser Van Jones, who has been embroiled in a controversy over past inflammatory statements, has resigned his White House job after what he calls a “vicious smear campaign against me”.

US AUTHORITIES have brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to the United States, flying him into New York to face trial for bombing US embassies, the Justice Department has said.

The first Guantanamo Bay detainee was today flown to the United States to face trial for bombing US embassies.

A NEW YORK judge has thrown out a lawsuit by September 11 families trying to stop construction of the World Trade Center memorial to the 2001 terror attacks.