UN report warns of huge increase of al-Qaida trainees

NEW foot soldiers for Islam’s holy war are streaming into al-Qaida training camps recently reactivated in eastern Afghanistan, a United Nations report has said.

Osama bin Laden’s financial network has been mainly dismantled, but his terror network still enjoys significant support and has “access to substantial funding from its previously established investments,” said the report by an expert panel, led by Michael Chandler.

Mr Chandler said al-Qaida operatives might be present in about 40 countries, which he did not identify.