THE US was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a report compiled by the former heads of the 9/11 commission.

Barack Obama will disclose more today about the botched airline terrorist attack - and what else he will do to beef up security.

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama, looking to chart a US foreign policy course far removed from the Bush administration’s path, said he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that would deny the al-Qaida leader the chance to become a martyr.

A PROPOSED agreement to hand over personal information about every passenger flying from the EU to the US is contrary to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, the EU’s data protection officer has said.

Set to become the US' first female speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are "ready to lead" in partnership with Republicans, "not in partisanship".

WE are writing to enquire whether you or other members of the mainstream media are aware of the growing concern in the US and Europe over the official findings of the 9/11 commission.

The US' Homeland Security Department has made the nation only marginally safer than before the 2001 terror attacks that created it, the agency’s former internal watchdog claims in a new book.

The United States is not doing enough to thwart terrorists’ attempts to acquire or make weapons of mass destruction, the September 11 commission has found.

NEW ORLEANS Mayor Ray Nagin announced yesterday that large parts of the city will reopen early next week, and the French Quarter the week after that. “The city of New Orleans will start to breathe again,” he said.

The putrid air rising from New Orleans’ slowly receding floodwaters was found not to be overly polluted, encouraging news for a mayor weighing the reopening of the French Quarter and other dry parts of the city.

As US congress hurried toward approval of a €41.8bn emergency hurricane aid package, US President Bush George today mapped a plan to get a wide range of government benefits – from medical care to job training – to storm victims who have scattered around the US.

Some immigrants used false documents to enter the United States, others let their legal visas expire once in the country. And at least 21 foreign nationals became naturalised US citizens before being charged or convicted as terrorists.

Hilary Swank and Kevin Costner will narrate the upcoming US film On Native Soil: The Documentary of the 9/11 Commission Report.

US President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney today answered questions for over three hours from September 11 commissioners trying to learn how followers of Osama bin Laden pulled off the worst terrorist attack in US history.

IN all the uproar over Richard Clarke’s testimony to the 9/11 Commission, I think we’re missing the larger issue. The focus now is all on whether the Bush administration focused on the terror threat prior to the attacks on 9/11.

The White House backed down today and will allow National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify in public under oath before the commission investigating the failure to prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks.