Israel linked West Bank Palestinians with the al-Qaida network for the first time today when a military court charged two youths with receiving funds from the jihad group to carry out a co-ordinated double bombing in Jerusalem.

Four Jordanian hostages in Iraq have been freed, the brother of one of them said today.

A TERROR suspect on trial in Germany has admitted that he served as a member of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard squad.