PRESIDENT George W Bush, trying to reverse a slide in public support for the war in Iraq, said yesterday that Islamic radicals are seeking to “enslave whole nations and intimidate the world”, calling it a prime reason not to pull out of Iraq.

US President George Bush today accused Islamic militants of seeking to “enslave whole nations and intimidate the world” and charged they have made Iraq their main front.

The husband of a woman killed in the Omagh bombing joined fellow victims of world terror attacks at a conference in Colombia.

International police organisation Interpol today offered Russia its help to determine whether militants who seized a school there were linked to international terrorists.

The European Union, in veiled criticism, regretted the violent and bloody resolution of the school hostage crisis by Russian authorities today, but said they understood authorities had been faced with few options.