US President George W Bush today opened three days of intensive consultations on Iraq, aiming to reverse the course of the nearly four-year-old war and energise his final two years in office.

The CIA may have had the chance to kill or capture terror chief Osama bin Laden a year before the deadly September 11 attacks, it emerged today.

The US was today accused of handing al-Qaida suspects over to foreign intelligence agencies where they can been tortured.