Muslim groups today reacted with a mixture of shock and scepticism at the announcement by police that they had broken up a major terrorist plot to bomb airliners.

IT’S over a month since the last democratically elected president of Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov, was murdered by Russian forces.

A SPOKESPERSON for the US military in Iraq, Col Jill Morgenthaler, has stated that the six US soldiers pictured torturing Iraqi prisoners did not receive in-depth training on the Geneva conventions governing the handling of captives.