Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said the US was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts in a new video released today, the latest in a series put out by the terror network to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

An al-Qaida-linked insurgent group has posted a video it claims shows the body of a US pilot killed in Iraq last year, a photograph of his identification card and brief footage of his aircraft’s wreckage site.

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden urged sympathisers to join the “caravan” of martyrs as he praised one of the September 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged today to mark the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon.

THE media arm of al-Qaida said yesterday, on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it will soon release a new video of Osama bin Laden giving the last testament of one of the hijackers.

The death toll from yesterday’s al-Qaida-claimed suicide bombings in Algeria today rose to 33, the government said.

Al-Qaida today posted a video showing what it claimed to be an attack by its fighters seizing a US-Afghan post in southern Afghanistan, in what experts said was a step-up in the terror group’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda.

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.

Al-Qaida’s No 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, blasted US President George Bush, saying he had been an alcoholic and was now a liar who gambled on the American people in Iraq and lost, according to a new audiotape released today.

Al Qaida No 2 Ayman al-Zawahri condemned US President George Bush in a video statement released tonight, calling him a failure and a liar.

French President Jacques Chirac said today that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is “in no way whatsoever confirmed.”

An Arab television station has broadcast previously unseen footage of a smiling Osama bin Laden meeting the top planners of the September 11 attacks in an Afghan mountain camp and calling on followers to pray for the hijackers as they carried out the suicide mission.

Previously unshown footage of the preparations for the September 11 attacks in which al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is seen meeting some of the planners and hijackers in a mountain camp in Afghanistan was screened tonight by al-Jazeera television.

Al-Qaida’s number two has issued a new videotape calling on Afghans to rise up against US and other coalition forces.

AN AUDIO recording in which al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden says convicted September 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui played no role in the attacks is authentic, a US intelligence official said yesterday.

Al-Qaida’s No. 2 has said that the terror network’s branch in Iraq has “broken the back” of the US military with hundreds of suicide bombings, in a video posted today that was the latest in a string of new messages by al-Qaida’s leaders.

US officials are treating a report on an Afghan news website about a new video showing Osama bin Laden with scepticism.

Kidnappers extended a deadline until Saturday in their threat to kill four captive peace activists, including Briton Norman Kember.