US MARINES forced Iraqi youngsters to kneel while troops discharged a weapon in a mock execution, used electric shocks on one prisoner and set fire to a puddle of solvent that burned one of them, according to US Navy documents.

DISSIDENT republican paramilitaries are fuelling gun crime on the streets of Britain by smuggling weapons from Ireland to sell to gangs, Justice Minister Willie O’Dea claimed yesterday.

SEVERAL thousand asylum seekers are now travelling back and forth across the Border every year, an intelligence report in Britain has concluded.

A British rock star is at the centre of a British police investigation into allegations that he downloaded child pornography from the Internet, it was reported today.

Football hooligans trying to reach Slovakia for England’s Euro 2004 qualifier will be banned from neighbouring Austria and the Czech Republic, police said today.

British police were tonight sifting through suspected cyber child porn seized in a series of raids across the country.

Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service today warned it would be ‘‘naive’’ to expect a hooliganism-free World Cup.

Bank accounts suspected of being used by outlawed terrorist organisations - including Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida network - have now been frozen in a total of 130 countries, a high-ranking US financial official said.

Bank accounts suspected of being used by outlawed terrorist organisations - including Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network - have now been frozen in a total of 130 countries, a high-ranking US financial official said today.

Police were today continuing their operation to stop potential troublemakers making the trip to see the Germany-England World Cup qualifying match in Munich.

Detectives from Japan and Korea are travelling to England to watch football matches in a bid to prepare themselves for soccer thugs at next year’s World Cup finals, it emerged today.

Eighty footballers are to have their passports examined by police following claims that clubs are fielding illegal players.