Jordan’s military court today convicted a terror suspect of raising funds to help Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, the most-wanted militant in Iraq, carry out attacks on US forces there and against Jordanian interests in the kingdom.

Two high-profile women prisoners in American custody will not be released immediately, the US embassy said in Baghdad despite an earlier announcement by Iraqi authorities.

The spiritual leader of the group holding Briton Kenneth Bigley has been killed in a US air strike, Islamic clerics said today.