Police in the Philippines killed three people including a suspected Muslim militant in a raid today linked to a bomb attack at the country’s Congress.

A politician killed in a bomb blast outside the Philippines congress may have been targeted by al-Qaida after double crossing them, it emerged today.

A congressman killed in a bomb blast outside the Philippine legislature was a former member of an al-Qaida-linked militant group who switched sides to support a US-backed offensive against them, police said today.

Five British al-Qaida terrorists jailed for life today were told they had "betrayed their country".

A British al-Qaida cell was facing massive jail sentences today for plotting a bombing campaign against the UK to rival the 9/11 terror attacks.

SERGEANT Hasan Akbar was noted by officers to have had an “attitude problem” earlier in his army career.

A US military jury in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has sentenced a soldier to death for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion.

A military jury in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sentenced a soldier to death on Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

Militants threatening to kill three UN hostages claimed today that talks to swap them for jailed comrades were progressing, even as an American general urged a tough line against the kidnappers. st week in police custody had been tortured.

The US military denied that American warplanes bombed a village in eastern Afghanistan, killing civilians, after militants attacked Afghan and US military camps.

US warplanes bombarded a remote village in eastern Afghanistan killing several people after a government office was attacked.

TAKING the witness stand three months after he was injured in a grenade attack in Kuwait, US Army Captain Terence Bacon said he remembered hearing screaming and seeing blood.

A MILITARY hearing opened yesterday for a soldier accused of a deadly grenade attack on his fellow Americans in Kuwait, with a major testifying that he was wounded by a gunshot after a grenade was rolled into his tent.

A military hearing opened in the US today for a soldier accused of a deadly grenade attack on fellow Americans in Kuwait days after the start of the Iraq war.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is due in the US today for ceremonies commemorating last year’s September 11 attacks, pledged to stay the course in fighting terrorism.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, en route to the United States for ceremonies commemorating last year’s September 11 attacks, today pledged to stay the course in fighting terrorism.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai was today travelling to the United States, where he will meet president George Bush and participate in ceremonies commemorating the September 11 terror attacks.

Muslim rebels who kidnapped around 24 hostages, including three Americans, have dumped the beheaded bodies of two of their captives near a main road outside the capital of a remote island in the southern Philippines.

Authorities were today anxiously awaiting contact with Muslim extremists as the rebels’ threatened to behead three American captives.

Authorities were today anxiously awaiting contact with Muslim extremists as the rebels’ threatened to behead three American captives.