Royal Navy – Searching of a ship suspected to contain terrorist supplies continues and will be done in exacting detail. Meanwhile, UK ports have been placed on a terrorist alert for suspect materials being shipped into the UK.

• BBC: Ship search ‘will take weeks’
  

• Daily Telegraph:
  Ports on terror alert for suspect shipping

Royal Marines – Royal Marines are patrolling in Kabul.

• Daily Telegraph: British Marines bring order to Kabul

Background – Taliban Strategy – Why the Taliban’s strategy failed against US forces.

• Washington Post: Taliban’s ‘Hide-and-Wait’ Strategy Failed

Background – Iraq – Options being put forward for how to deal with Iraq.

• Daily Telegraph: Bush handed three attack plans for Saddam

Background – Afghanistan – How the al-Qaeda effectively hijacked the government of Afghanistan.

• Washington Post: Inside Al Qaeda’s Secret World