Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service today denied that Moscow provided information on US troop movements and plans to Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Interfax news agency reported.

Recruits to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist training camps in Afghanistan were clamouring for suicide missions against the United States more than a year before the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to al-Qaida documents that the US Defence Department has declassified.

RÓNÁN MULLEN’S rather paranoid column (Irish Examiner, July 13) indicating that we are all targets of Islamic terrorists missed some rather crucial points.

INVESTIGATORS are hunting for any clues to see if al-Qaida was behind the weekend suicide attack on a Qatar theatre that killed a Briton, the first such attack in the US-allied Gulf Arab state.

An Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility today for shooting down an RAF Hercules transport plane with a missile, killing ten British servicemen and backed up their claim with a video.