Team Obama has quietly built a juggernaut re-election machine in Chicago. Andrew Romano goes inside

DEMANDS for an independent inquiry into the July 7 London suicide attacks were stepped up tonight after claims that the CIA identified the leader of the bombers as a terrorist threat two years before the strikes on London.

In Geneva, they’ll read patriotic poetry. In Vienna, they’ll drown their sorrows and plot their revenge.

A former senior White House official who claimed that President George Bush planned the Iraq war days after taking office could find himself at the centre of an investigation into the revealing of a secret government document.

Former US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said he never saw any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.