The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility today for a pre-dawn attack on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for US and other Nato forces.

Pakistan suspended truck shipments of US military supplies through the famed Khyber Pass after launching an offensive against militants who are trying to cripple Washington’s war on a resurgent Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan.

The CIA launched a secret bid to have suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin laden captured or killed three years ago.

Hope today evaporated for a miracle survival amid the rubble of the World Trade Centre, two weeks after the terrorist attacks on America.