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Alex Thomson
Will the Taliban renounce “international terrorism” as the US demands? Will they get their prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay? And will they recognise the Karzai regime in Kabul at all? Once you see movement on this you can start taking matters seriously.
Senior UK security officials and ministers could be in the frame as the Metropolitan Police begins a new wider investigation into allegations of rendition in Libya, as Simon Israel reports.
British spies will discover later whether they will face charges over their alleged complicity in the torture of terror suspects.
MI6 had struck up such a budding relationship with Libyan Intelligence in the preceding years that when they wanted to kill our people earlier this year, we seem to have known about it. Which illustrates a point the spooks often like to make: that it is in Britain’s national interests to do business with people we don’t like.
With founder Julian Assange facing a rape trial in Sweden, funding crippled by a “financial blockade” and dwindling support from fellow hactivists, can WikiLeaks survive? Channel 4 News investigates.
Two thousand Pakistanis join a rally against drone attacks, labelled a “global assassination campaign” by thinker Noam Chomsky as security sources say the latest strike has killed 13 militants.
A US drone strike in Pakistan has killed five commanders of a powerful Taliban faction which attacks western forces in Afghanistan, according to one of the group’s leaders.
Matt Frei
There are so many poignant images competing for attention this weekend. One came from Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where two former Presidents -Bush and Clinton- joined Vice President Biden to commemorate the passengers of United Flight 93.
Matt Frei
Matt Frei writes on how the town of Manhatten – in Kansas, has fared in the decade since the Twin Towers were destroyed.
David Cameron promises to look at “significant accusations” made against Britain as a spokesman for Libya’s new leadership claims the UK helped with the “kidnapping” of Gaddafi’s opponents.
Human rights campaigners are threatening to boycott an inquiry into allegations British terrorism suspects were illegally tortured on foreign soil. They say the inquiry is flawed.
The United States is to withhold some £500m in military assistance to Pakistan, as it “works through” strains in their relationship prompted by the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.
A Somali man is taken to the US to face charges of assisting terror groups in Yemen and Somalia, after being detained on a US Navy ship for more than two months.
Guidelines issued to Britain’s intelligence services on how to avoid complicity in torture are to be challenged in the High Court tomorrow, Simon Israel reports.
As troops leave Afghanistan defence experts tell Channel 4 News securing the violent eastern border with Pakistan will become a priority, and that may include the use of more unmanned drone strikes.