Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said the US was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts in a new video released today, the latest in a series put out by the terror network to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Al Qaida’s number-two leader today warned that the terrorist group would not stand idly by while “these (Israeli) shells burn our brothers” in Lebanon and Gaza.

A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman has said.

AN AIRPORT that was the starting point for one of the September 11 hijackers was evacuated for several hours after receiving a bomb threat signed under the alleged terrorist’s name.

An airport that was the starting point for one of the September 11 hijackers was evacuated for several hours after receiving a bomb threat signed under the alleged terrorist’s name.

Jordan and Britain will soon sign a memorandum of understanding on the joint-extradition of wanted people between both countries, Jordanian Interior Minister Awni Yirfas said today.

A prime suspect in last year’s train bombings in Madrid took the stand today at the trial of 24 suspected al-Qaida members and denied he had anything but a business relationship with their accused leader, who allegedly helped plot the September 11 attacks in the US

A suspected Muslim extremist accused of helping to plot the September 11 attacks in the United States said today he had never even heard of al-Qaida until he was arrested four years ago on suspicion of leading one of its cells.

Twenty-four men will go on trial in Spain today as suspected members of an al-Qaida cell charged with using their new homeland as a staging ground for the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The father of September 11 hijack leader Mohammed Atta has insisted his son did not carry out the 2001 attacks, blaming a “Jewish conspiracy” for the outrage.

A senior planner of the September 11 2001 attacks said the Hamburg al-Qaida cell was smaller than investigators believed, consisting only of himself and three of the suicide pilots, a German court was told in the first public release of statements by suspects in US custody.

A key al-Qaida captive in US custody told interrogators that a Moroccan on trial for helping the Hamburg-based September 11 suicide pilots had no knowledge of the plot, according to a summary read out in court in Hamburg today.

CHILLING radio transmissions by the September 11 hijackers from the planes they commandeered were played for the first time yesterday.

Chilling radio transmissions by the September 11 hijackers from the planes they commandeered were played for the first time today.

Plagued by miscommunication and confusion, the Pentagon’s air-defence command missed an opportunity to possibly intercept at least one of the hijacked planes on September 11, the federal panel reviewing the attacks said today.

SEPTEMBER 11 plot mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed originally envisioned an attack involving 10 hijacked planes, including one he would pilot and, after all male passengers were killed, land at an airport and make an anti-American speech, according to the commission investigating the attacks.

The only September 11 suspect ever convicted was freed by a German court today after his conviction for aiding the suicide pilots was thrown out last month.

A German court today overturned the world’s only conviction for the September 11 attacks and ordered a retrial for a Moroccan found guilty last year of aiding the Hamburg cell of suicide hijackers.

THE federal commission reviewing the September 11 attacks is examining whether the US failed to aggressively track one of the hijackers after obtaining his first name and phone number more than two years before the attacks.

A HAMBURG court yesterday acquitted a Moroccan man of helping the September 11 hijackers after a 5½-month trial that was only the second anywhere of a suspected attacker.

A Moroccan who allegedly helped the September 11 hijackers but was freed on evidence suggesting he knew nothing of the plot awaited a verdict today in only the second trial anywhere for the attacks on the United States.

By Amir ShahHUNDREDS of rival militiamen with tanks and artillery faced off along a narrow front line in northern Afghanistan yesterday, as the government scrambled to stop what it described as the worst fighting in months.

MOHAMMED ATTA, the man believed to have led the terror cell that plotted and executed the September 11 attacks, was no more than second in command in the group, a German magazine has claimed.

The second alleged September 11 terrorist to face trial anywhere appeared in court today in Hamburg, Germany.

A Moroccan student was today convicted of being an accessory in the murder of more than 3,000 September 11 victims and helping support the Hamburg-based terror cell.

A verdict was expected today in the first trial of a suspect in the September 11 terror attacks against New York and Washington.

Philip Blenkinsop, Hamburg

A MOROCCAN charged with supporting the September 11 suicide hijackers told a German court yesterday some alleged plotters wanted to fight against Russians in Chechnya.

A Moroccan student accused of aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the September 11 attacks on the US went to Afghanistan in 2000 and attended a training camp there, his lawyer said yesterday.

A 28-year-old Moroccan student was today going on trial in Germany, charged with aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the September 11 attacks on the United States, which included lead suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta.

A Moroccan man was arrested in Hamburg today on suspicion that he provided logistical support to the cell of September 11 hijackers led by Mohamed Atta, German federal prosecutors said.

The CIA has said Osama bin Laden provided the voice recording for the latest al Qaida videotape to air on television, but intelligence officials do not believe he was taped recently.

MOHAMED ATTA, the lead September 11 hijacker, met Osama bin Laden at an Afghan training camp in December 1999, it was reported yesterday.

The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera today broadcast parts of a videotape in which a male voice attributed to Osama bin Laden can be heard naming all 19 September 11 hijackers.

The weapons were crude, the plot staggering in its conceit. Bring down buildings, kill, shake America to its core.

Adam Tanner discovers that terror network still has members scattered through Europe.

A SEPTEMBER 11 hijacker vowed as far back as 1999 that thousands would die when planes crashed into the World Trade Center, a German prosecutor said yesterday.

THE White House is now backing claims that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta secretly met an Iraqi agent in Prague, Czech Republic, five months before the attacks, it was reported yesterday.

Fighting raged today between rival Afghan warlords - both of them officials in the interim government.

The American government tonight faced embarrassment when a flight school where two of the September 11 hijackers trained received a letter saying they had been approved for visas.

Al-Qaida fighters holding out in the terror gang’s final Afghan stronghold are facing an ultimatum to surrender or be annihilated.

Heavy fighting continued around the Taliban’s last northern stronghold today after a Northern Alliance leader claimed the besieged town had surrendered.

Three Tunisians attending flight schools in Florida, including a student who acknowledged knowing a flatmate of terrorist hijacker Mohamed Atta, were ordered deported yesterday.