US president George Bush shrugged off massive protests against his visit to the world’s most populous Muslim nation today as a sign of a healthy democracy, as thousands braved heavy rains to call him a war criminal and a terrorist.

US President George Bush shrugged off massive protests against his visit to the world’s most populous Muslim nation today as a sign of a healthy democracy, as thousands braved heavy rains to call him a war criminal and a terrorist.

A Malaysian recruited by al-Qaida to become a pilot for a second wave of September 11-style attacks on the United States pulled out of the plan after he witnessed the carnage of the first assaults, officials said today.

A British-born terror suspect was asked by senior al-Qaida figures in Afghanistan to recruit Australian Muslims to be trained in explosives and sniper techniques, a court heard today.

A former member of the Indonesian Air Force has admitted building the bomb that levelled a Bali nightclub, it was reported today.