Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden addressed the “wise men” of the European Union in a new audio message slamming the publication of drawings insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and vowed a strong reaction.

Al-Qaida’s chief ideologue and strategist, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has published a 212-page book on militant Islamic websites slamming his former radical colleagues in Egyptian prisons for disavowing armed struggle and turning their backs against violence.

Al-Qaida’s American-born spokesman urged fighters to greet US President George Bush with bombs not flowers when he visits the Middle East this week, according to a video posted on the internet today.

Al-Qaida’s American spokesman Adam Gadahn called on the terror network’s fighters to greet US President George Bush with "bombs and booby-trapped vehicles" when he visits the Middle East later this week, according to a new video posted today.

Osama bin Laden warned Iraq’s Sunni Arabs against joining tribal councils fighting al-Qaida or participating in any unity government in a new audio tape posted on the web today.

Al-Qaida’s number two Ayman al-Zawahri said in a new video posted today that the US was trying to hide its failures in Iraq and warned that the mujahedeen there were increasing in strength.

Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television.

Al-Qaida's media operation today announced that it will release a new video of Osama bin Laden presenting the last testament of one of the September 11 suicide hijackers, marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks.

An al-Qaida commander who escaped from a US prison in Afghanistan criticised Hamas and other Islamic groups in a new video today, accusing them of abandoning holy war in favour of nationalism and electoral politics.

Counter-terrorism officials in the US were analysiing a new video of Osama bin Laden tonight ahead of the sixth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.

Al-Qaida has released a video showing what they claimed to be an insurgent attack on a military position of US and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.

Somali government troops backed by Ethiopians today prepared to launch a major assault on the last stronghold of Islamic movement militiamen.

Al Qaida’s number-two leader today warned that the terrorist group would not stand idly by while “these (Israeli) shells burn our brothers” in Lebanon and Gaza.

Government officials believe the latest tape of Osama bin Laden was made recently and are trying to determine whether its release now may be a signal of an impending attack.