Justice Minister Alan Shatter has strongly defended the sharing of personal information of air travellers to the US and said the system had resulted in the prevention and investigation of terrorism and organised crime.

An American convicted of helping plan the 2008 Mumbai terrorist massacre has backed claims that Pakistan was heavily involved in the attack.

Two wives of a businessman convicted over the Mumbai terrorist attacks in India spoke to the FBI about their husband three years before, it has emerged.

THE US was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a report compiled by the former heads of the 9/11 commission.