Moroccan police have dismantled a terrorist network, arresting 17 people, including two former prisoners at the US base at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay reported.

A man claiming to be armed with two grenades tried to hijack a passenger plane from Cuba’s Isle of Youth to the United States last night, but the plane was forced to land in Havana because of insufficient fuel.

Teams of trained Islamic extremists who escaped the US led war in Afghanistan are hiding in Europe, ready “to hit at the chosen moment,” the head of France’s counter-espionage service said today.