Al Qaida’s No 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, called on Iraq’s Kurds to renounce America and Israel in a video posted on the internet tonight.

IT is reported Osama bin Laden warned of a mission that would “result in killing Americans and getting rid of them” four years ago.

Just weeks before terrorists bombed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Osama bin Laden declared war on the West.

British and American special forces were today operating in Afghanistan after a week in which the full scale of the terrorism allegedly planned by Osama bin Laden was revealed.

A former fighter in the Al-Qaeda network has revealed how Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the attacks in the US on September 11th, planned to kidnap a US diplomat in an attempt to secure the release of one of his associates.