Bin Laden ‘warned his mother of terror strikes’

Suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden told his mother there was ‘‘big news’’ on the way, two days before the September 11 terror strikes, it was reported tonight.

An unnamed foreign intelligence agency reportedly intercepted a call in which bin Laden said: ‘‘In two days you are going to hear big news, and you are not going to hear from me for a while.’’