Islamist guerrillas are turning the vast Sahara into a new theatre of war against the West, writes Alex Diaz

A court in Paris has convicted and sentenced two Islamic militants to life in prison for their roles in a 1995 campaign of bombings of the Paris Metro that killed eight and wounded more than 200.

FBI officials have retraced their footsteps as far back as the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in the hope of finding any evidence which may provide a vital clue to the certain identity of the terrorists.