“THE entire continent is involved,” the man investigating whether Europe’s governments are facilitating the CIA in the kidnap and torture of terror suspects claimed in his first report yesterday.

The Iraq prisoner abuse scandal shifted to the question of whether the Bush administration set up a legal foundation that opened the door for the mistreatment.

A key piece of information leading to the recent terror alerts in the United States was fabricated, it was reported today.

American-made Stinger surface-to-air missiles remain in small numbers in Afghanistan, left over from when the US supported rebels fighting the Soviet Union more than a decade ago.