Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on America in the next three to six months, intelligence chiefs told the US Congress.

Osama bin Laden’s terror network helped fund all of the suicide bombings in Indonesia in the past four years, a senior police official said today, highlighting links between al-Qaida and the regional militant group Jemaah Islamiyah.

A SUSPECT in the suicide bombing of an American destroyer off the coast of Yemen in October 2000 was among six suspected al-Qaida men arrested in two simultaneous raids yesterday.