AN AFGHAN detainee who was captured as a teenager has railed in court against the US military’s tribunal system and said he will boycott his trial, telling the judge: “Don’t bother me anymore.”

Lawlessness spread in Baghdad today even as the fighting dwindled to occasional bursts of machine gun fire.

US intelligence was today examining a newly-aired videotape of Osama bin Laden that contains clues suggesting it could have been made around the time he vanished.