Convicted September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says he lied on the witness stand about being involved in the terrorist plot and wants to withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial.

Jordan and Britain will soon sign a memorandum of understanding on the joint-extradition of wanted people between both countries, Jordanian Interior Minister Awni Yirfas said today.

Twenty-four men will go on trial in Spain today as suspected members of an al-Qaida cell charged with using their new homeland as a staging ground for the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The father of September 11 hijack leader Mohammed Atta has insisted his son did not carry out the 2001 attacks, blaming a “Jewish conspiracy” for the outrage.

Britain and the US stand accused of a shocking catalogue of human rights abuses today by three Britons who were held at Guantanamo Bay.

Three Britons who were held at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years have accused the US and Britain of a shocking catalogue of abuses in a report due out later today.

THE video footage acquired by the Associated Press newsagency at Dulles Airport shows hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Majed Moqed, each dressed in trousers and collared shirts, setting off metal detectors as they pass through security around 7:18am.

Some of the hijackers who crashed a jetliner into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, twice set off alarms as they passed through airport metal detectors, but security screeners did not appear to question them about knives they were apparently carrying, according to a newly disclosed surveillance video.

Surveillance video from Washington Dulles International Airport the morning of September 11, 2001, shows four of the five hijackers being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off metal detectors – but then permitted to board the fateful flight that crashed into the Pentagon.

PRESIDENT George W Bush has overstepped his authority since the September 11 attacks by jailing American citizens suspected of links to terrorism and denying them access to lawyers and courts, an attorney for a US-born terrorism suspect told the Supreme Court yesterday.

Political Editor Harry McGee questions the ‘intelligence’ that led to the Iraq war, and failed to predict September 11 and the Madrid bombings.

THE federal commission reviewing the September 11 attacks is examining whether the US failed to aggressively track one of the hijackers after obtaining his first name and phone number more than two years before the attacks.

THE flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11 seemed calm and professional beyond reason as she reported a ghastly scenario during a 23-minute telephone call just before the plane slammed into one of the World Trade Center towers.

The mastermind of the September 11 attacks has told US interrogators that he first discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden in 1996, according to interrogation reports.

All visitors travelling to the US on visas are to be fingerprinted and photographed from next year in an attempt stop terrorists entering the country.

Former Iraqi spymaster Farouk Hijazi, captured by US forces, could be the man to link Saddam Hussein’s regime to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terror network.

Pakistani authorities have captured another suspected key al Qaida figure – a man US government sources say oversees communication among the terror network’s operatives.

The first man convicted in connection with the September 11 attacks is today beginning a 15-year jail term in Germany.

Disclosures about alleged links between Iraq and the al-Qaida terror group have so far been viewed with some scepticism, and been seen as part of an attempt to win over public opinion in the build-up to military action.

A MOROCCAN charged with supporting the September 11 suicide hijackers told a German court yesterday some alleged plotters wanted to fight against Russians in Chechnya.

A 28-year-old Moroccan student was today going on trial in Germany, charged with aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the September 11 attacks on the United States, which included lead suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta.

FIVE al-Qaida suspects were handed over to US authorities and flown out of Pakistan yesterday.

President George W Bush said Ramzi Binalshibh’s arrest showed the war on terrorism had not flagged.

The US today landed its “big catch” – the self confessed al-Qaida member who boasted he helped plan the September 11 terror attacks.

Five al-Qaida suspects arrested last week in Pakistan have been handed over to US authorities and flown out of the country.

Pakistan has made no decision on the extradition of Ramzi Binalshibh, the September 11 plotter who was arrested last week in a joint operation by US and Pakistani intelligence, an Interior Ministry official said today.

A suspected organiser of the September 11 attacks has been captured in a shoot-out in Pakistan, according to US officials.

The CIA has said Osama bin Laden provided the voice recording for the latest al Qaida videotape to air on television, but intelligence officials do not believe he was taped recently.

AL-QAIDA considered striking US nuclear facilities as it planned its assault on New York and Washington and has not ruled out future nuclear attacks, according to a reporter’s account of his interview with two September 11 plotters.

Al-Qaida considered striking US nuclear facilities as it planned its assault on New York and Washington and has not ruled out nuclear attacks in the future, according to a reporter’s account of his interview with two September 11 plotters.

Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera says it has conducted interviews with two wanted al-Qaida members who disclose how the terrorist network planned and carried out the September 11 attacks in the US.

NEARLY 200 al-Qaida operatives, including several senior commanders, have settled in Lebanon with Syria’s permission, taking refuge in a large Palestinian refugee camp there, an Israeli newspaper reported on Monday.

US President George W Bush is not attending the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development currently taking place in Johannesburg.

THE White House is now backing claims that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta secretly met an Iraqi agent in Prague, Czech Republic, five months before the attacks, it was reported yesterday.

Spanish police have arrested a Syrian-born man suspected of financing operations conducted by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network in various countries, including the US.

US president George Bush said he was ‘‘plenty hot’’ to learn that student visas for two September 11 hijackers were delivered months after they flew planes into New York’s World Trade Centre.

The American government tonight faced embarrassment when a flight school where two of the September 11 hijackers trained received a letter saying they had been approved for visas.

Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person accused of being an accomplice in the September 11 terrorist attacks, will today plead not guilty to conspiring to kill and maim thousands of victims.

Al-Qaida fighters holding out in the terror gang’s final Afghan stronghold are facing an ultimatum to surrender or be annihilated.

A Spanish judge, has accused eight suspected Islamic terrorists, of playing a role in the September 11 attacks, and has ordered them to be held in prison.

Pakistan authorities have launched a nationwide manhunt for a key suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States after he apparently entered the country from Afghanistan, officials said.

Suspected suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta met at least once with an Iraqi intelligence agent during one of two trips to the Czech republic, a senior government official said today.

The CIA intercepted a message from an al-Qaida member boasting of plans to carry out a "Hiroshima" on America, it was revealed today.

US authorities have charged the first person with helping the New York and Washington terrorist hijackers as the number of people arrested or detained in the wide-ranging investigation grew to 352.