IRAQI security forces questioned terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Fallujah area last year but released him because they didn’t realise who he was, the deputy interior minister said yesterday.

GLASSES and bottles could be banned from nightclubs in a radical clampdown on street violence.

Both the Gardaí and PSNI forces must lend their support to the Omagh victims’ £10m (€14.9m) civil action against the suspects if anyone is ever to be convicted for the atrocity, it was claimed today.

Israel said tonight it had suspended a planned withdrawal from two West Bank towns after Palestinian gunmen fired on its soldiers.