A memo released on harsh interrogation techniques shows that a former USState Department official strongly dissented from the George W Bush administration’s secret legal view in 2005 that an international treaty against torture did not apply to CIA interrogations in foreign countries.

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and British prime minister Tony Blair today discussed the possibility of deploying a peacekeeping force along the Lebanese-Israeli border.

A British Muslim has told how he was trained as a hijacker for Osama bin Laden, and contacted the FBI before the September 11 terror attacks in the US.

The CIA warned as early as 1995 that Islamic extremists were likely to attack US aviation, Washington landmarks or Wall Street and by 1997 had identified Osama bin Laden as an emerging threat on US soil, a senior intelligence official said.

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.