The US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan said the September 11 2001 attacks “wouldn’t have happened” if Americans had been forewarned to be on the lookout for terrorism.

An air strike and a raid by ground troops in Afghanistan has killed eight insurgents, including a senior Taliban leader who spearheaded attacks against Afghan security forces in northern Afghanistan, Nato said today.

An alleged Islamic radical has been extradited to Germany and charged today with membership in a foreign terrorist organisation, prosecutors said.

Intelligence officials said the al-Qaida-linked leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is believed to have been killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan's north west.

Four men accused of a foiled German terror plot were fuelled by hatred and aimed to cause destruction on the scale of September 11, a court heard today.

THE US military has launched a new “Most Wanted” campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 (€141,500) for information leading to the capture of 12 Taliban and al-Qaida leaders.

The German Interior Ministry today said the Islamic Jihad Union militant group has taken responsibility for planning foiled terror bombings in Germany, adding that the US air base at Ramstein was a target as well as US and Uzbek consulates in Germany.

German authorities were today searching for 10 suspected supporters of an Islamic group linked to al-Qaida who are believed to have assisted the three militants arrested earlier this week in their foiled bomb plot.

Three Islamic militants from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing a “profound hatred of US citizens” were arrested on suspicion of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks targeting Americans in Germany, prosecutors said today.

Three suspected Islamic terrorists were arrested for plotting “massive” bomb attacks on Frankfurt’s international airport and the Ramstein US Air Base, German authorities said today.

Soldiers opened fire on thousands of protesters in eastern Uzbekistan today after demonstrators stormed a jail to free 23 men accused of Islamic extremism, while a protest leader said about 50 people may have been killed hours earlier in clashes with police and security forces.

Soldiers opened fire on protesters in eastern Uzbekistan today and killed at least three after demonstrators stormed a jail to free 23 men accused of Islamic extremism, witnesses said.

Outrage over the terror trial of 23 Muslims exploded into broader unrest in eastern Uzbekistan today when armed protesters stormed a jail to free the defendants and thousands of people swarmed the streets, clashing with police.

An explosion ripped through a market in the Uzbek capital Tashkent today, killing at least two people, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

Pakistani troops have begun withdrawing from some parts of western Pakistan after militants agreed to release captured soldiers and politicians.

The US has frozen the assets of 25 worldwide terrorist groups including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and the Real IRA.