Independent.co.uk - Another day, another outrage
Only days ago, Mr Bush declared that "al-Qa'ida is on the run" and that "about half of all the top al-Qa'ida operatives are either jailed or dead". In either case, he said, "they are not a problem any more".

The wave of suicide attacks in an arc that stretches from Morocco and Algeria through Israel ­where seven were killed yesterday ­to Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Pakistan have been mounted by different violent groups for different reasons. Yet they stand as testimony to the inaccuracy of President George Bush's view that America is winning the "war on terror". They also fortify the position of those who say the war in Iraq was not so much part of that war as a diversion from it ­and that it has fuelled anti-Western attacks rather than reduced them.