A CIA contractor, charged with fatally assaulting an Afghan prisoner, was fired from a police force after an assault 14 years ago and a history of run-ins, authorities and acquaintances said today.

A radical Muslim cleric arrested in London today is accused in a US indictment of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon while providing aid to both al-Qaida and the Taliban.

AL-QAIDA is planning an attack on US soil "in the next few months", US Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday.

Al-Qaida is planning an attack on US soil “in the next few months“, US Attorney General John Ashcroft said today.

British actor Corin Redgrave called on the US to follow its release of five Britons detained in Guantanamo Bay with the return of all the estimated 660 people held at the US Navy base in Cuba.

A US jury was considering today whether Washington sniper Lee Malvo should live or die, after the teenager was convicted of capital murder over the three-week reign of terror.

Turkish police have arrested number of men who are suspected of involvement in the deadly suicide bombings on the British consulate and a London-based bank that were blamed on al-Qaida.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell held private talks with US Attorney General John Ashcroft in Dublin this morning.

Crime in the US has dropped to the lowest level since records began 30-years-ago, official figures showed today.

THE US Justice Department is defying a court order to produce an al-Qaida prisoner for cross-examination by a man accused of the September 11 bombings.

Accurate, detailed information on the priceless antiquities looted from Iraqi museums is crucial for the international effort to track them down, experts and officials said at a meeting on stolen artefacts today.

Despite the destruction of most of its bases in Afghanistan, the al-Qaida terror network remains a serious threat, with sleeper cells and agents who “are always ready to act,” the world’s top justice and interior ministers said tonight.

THREE men yesterday agreed to surrender to the United States on charges of conspiring to trade drugs for anti-aircraft missiles they allegedly wanted to sell to the al-Qaida terrorists.

Six people, including a former US army reservist, have been charged with trying to travel to Afghanistan to join forces with al-Qaida and the Taliban.

A Briton will appear in a US court today to admit trying to bring down a transatlantic flight with powerful explosives hidden in his shoes.

The FBI is investigating unsubstantiated information that terrorists are targetting American banks.

Civil rights lawyers in the US have said they planned to sue US Attorney General John Ashcroft and other officials, alleging widespread abuse of Middle Eastern men detained on immigration violations after September 11.

The United States has indicted a British-born Islamic militant in connection with the abduction and murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl.

A fugitive suspected of sending hundreds of fake anthrax letters to abortion clinics was captured today.

Human rights group Amnesty International has said that many of the 603 people interned without trial in the US as part of a crackdown on alleged "terrorists" have been mistreated while in custody.

Three letters contaminated with anthrax all were dated September 11, the same day as the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and contained anti-American and anti-Israel messages, US officials said.

The FBI is investigating the death of a journalist in Florida after he was exposed to the anthrax disease at his workplace.

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called the September 11 attacks a ‘‘wake-up call from God’’ and said America can shield itself from future attacks through a spiritual revival.

The FBI has produced the first piece of evidence linking the suicide hijackers who carried out the attacks on the US.

US Attorney General John Ashcroft has said that people with possible links to the hijackers who carried out the attacks in New York and Washington earlier this month obtained licences to transport hazardous materials.

US Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked Congress to approve so-called "anti-terrorism" legislation which breaches the US constitution.

The FBI says 18 hijackers were on board the four planes involved in the US terrorist attacks.

A man who had been identified by federal authorities as a possible hijacker involved in Tuesday's terrorist attacks is alive and cooperating with the FBI, sources said Thursday.

US Attorney General John Ashcroft has said that each of the four planes involved in yesterday's crashes at the World Trade Centre was hijacked by between four and six individuals.