Eight candidates for FBI director have been interviewed at Justice Department headquarters as US President Donald Trump suggested a decision on a nominee to replace Director James Comey could be announced within days.

Former US homeland security secretary Tom Ridge claims in a new book that he was pressured by other members of George Bush’s Cabinet to raise the US terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election.

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden urged sympathisers to join the “caravan” of martyrs as he praised one of the September 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged today to mark the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon.

THE investigation into who masterminded and bankrolled the plane bombing plot will be a global and multifaceted probe led by British, US and Pakistani authorities but reliant on intelligence from other countries, counter-terrorism experts said yesterday.

The investigation into who masterminded and bankrolled the plane bombing plot will be a global and multifaceted probe led by British, US and Pakistani authorities but reliant on intelligence from other countries, counterterrorism experts said Friday.