More al-Qaida attacks feared

Security officials and diplomats in the Gulf, the Far East and East Africa were tonight trying to piece together the strands of intelligence pointing to imminent major al-Qaida terror attacks.

British Airways flights to Kenya remained grounded as Kenyan police hunted for one of Osama bin Laden’s top henchmen who was at large in the country and thought to be planning an attack on an airliner, embassies and foreign residences.