The former driver of Osama Bin Laden has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and aiding terrorism.

They had already seen some senior Sunni politicians pushed out of politics on what are widely believed to be trumped up charges of aiding terrorism.

A New York lawyer convicted of aiding terrorism by helping a client smuggle messages to militant followers was sentenced to 28 months in prison today.

William Shawcross, appointed as a partisan chair of the Charity Commission, has accused them of aiding terrorism abroad, amid accusations of "political" campaigning at home.