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Jailed Afghan Drug Lord Was Informer on U.S. Payroll
• NY TimesWhen Hajji Juma Khan was arrested and transported to New York to face charges under a new American narco-terrorism law in 2008, federal prosecutors described him as perhaps the biggest and most dangerous drug lord in Afghanistan, a shadowy figure who
Updating Mohamed Harkat's Persecution
Stephen LendmanA Canadian judicial lynching
America Pressed Germans on Kidnapping by C.I.A.
• NY TimesAmerican officials exerted sustained pressure on Germany not to enforce arrest warrants against Central Intelligence Agency officers involved in the 2003 kidnapping of a German citizen mistakenly believed to be a terrorist, diplomatic cables made pub
Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative
• RawstoryOne of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). James D. Catlin, a lawyer who recently represented Assange, said
Honduras: Latin America's Murder Capital
Stephen LendmanMurder is out of control in fascist Honduras
CIA implanted electrodes in brains of unsuspecting soldiers, suit alleges
• RawStory.comA group of military veterans are suing to get the CIA to come clean about allegedly implanting remote control devices in their brains.
CIA implanted electrodes in brains of unsuspecting soldiers, suit alleges
• RawstoryA group of military veterans are suing to get the CIA to come clean about allegedly implanting remote control devices in their brains. It's well known that the CIA began testing substances like LSD on soldiers beginning in the 1950s but less is known
Pakistan tribesman ‘to sue CIA’ over drone deaths
• AFPA Pakistani tribesman is seeking $500 million dollars in compensation from the CIA after his son and brother were killed in America's covert drone war against Al-Qaeda, his lawyer said. Kareem Khan said his house was hit by US missiles on December 31
WikiLeaks Hit By Powerful Cyber-Attack
• CBS NewsThe WikiLeaks website says it’s under a forceful Internet-based attack, and the site was inaccessible to some users in U.S. and Europe throughout the morning Tuesday. The site, which just distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents, said in a
Iranian nuclear scientist killed and another wounded in separate bomb attacks
• Daily MailAn Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and another injured in separate attacks in Tehran today. The scientists were targeted in 2 different locations by men riding motorcycles who attached bombs to their car windows as they drove to work.
Pakistan forcing Taliban militants to keep fighting, Karzai says in leaked cable
• RawstoryAfghan President Karzai told a US envoy that the Pakistani government is forcing Taliban fighters to keep fighting coalition forces. Asdd evidence to claims Pakistan is intentionally prolonging the war effort to ensure any future peace settlement res
CIA Must Disclose Data on Human Experiments
• Courthouse NewsA federal magistrate in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975. They used 7,800 soldiers as guinea pigs
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says
• NY TimesA secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clash
Drug expert claims David Kelly was murdered as he could not have taken overdose
• Daily MailPolice have been urged to start a murder inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death following further allegations that he did not commit suicide. Officers have been told the government scientist could not have taken an overdose of painkillers.
Prosecutor to probe US surveillance in Sweden
• APSweden is investigating to see whether the US embassy has committed any crime by carrying out surveillance measures, the prosecutor's office said today in a case similar to one that has blown up in neighbouring Norway. The probe to see if illegal
CIA Terror Tapes Case Closes without Charges
• CBS/APNo charges will be filed against the CIA's former top clandestine officer or anyone else in the destruction of CIA videotapes of harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Another part of the nearly thr
CIA's Valerie Plame, in spotlight again
• APNot for nothing have they called Valerie Plame Wilson the Glamorous Spy. And yet for years, she lived a life of secrecy that most of us would have trouble fathoming, unable to tell her best friends what she actually did for a living, or her own hu
CIA punished 16 officers in 2001 Peru plane shootdown of Muskegon missionary, infant daughter
• APIn a footnote to a tragic mistake, the CIA revealed Monday that 16 retired and current officers were given administrative punishments for their role in Peru’s 2001 shootdown of a plane that killed two innocent Americans from Muskegon. American mis
Inquiry Finds U.S. Official Set Up Spy Ring in Asia
• NY TimesA senior Pentagon official broke Defense Department rules and “deliberately misled” senior generals when he set up a network of private contractors to spy in Afghanistan and Pakistan beginning last year, according to the results of an internal govern
Total US intelligence bill tops $80 billion
• APThe annual cost of US intelligence is public for the first time: just over $80 billion for 2010. Figures released by the government yesterday show $27 billion goes to military intelligence and $53.1 billion covers the CIA and some of the country’s ot
Is Al Queda Leader CIA Asset?
• .Newly-released documents about Anwar Al-Awlaki, a Muslim-American tied to many terrorist attacks and currently on the CIA’s capture or kill list, are leading some to believe he may in fact be working for the CIA or another government intelligence age
US seeks $2 billion in military aid for Pakistan
• ReutersThe US announced $2 billion in military aid for Pakistan as the countries sought to dispel doubts about Islamabad's commitment to uprooting Islamist insurgents from safe havens on its soil. "The United States has no stronger partner when it comes to
'Systemic failures' led to attack, CIA says
• Washington PostThe CIA was cautioned last year that a self-proclaimed al-Qaeda turncoat might be luring the agency into an ambush, a warning that came weeks before the man killed seven agency operatives in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, an internal investigation
Afghans allege abuse at secret US jail
• APA new report from a U.S. foundation details allegations of detainee abuse as recently as this year from Afghans who say they were held at a secret jail inside the main American military base in Afghanistan. The U.S. military has long operated a fa
Pakistan's judiciary threatens government stability
• Washington PostAfter this country's then-military dictator deposed the Supreme Court chief justice in 2007, a boisterous movement of protesting lawyers took to the streets and ushered in the return of democracy. Now the court may bring about an end to elected gover
Pakistan's Musharraf says to return to politics
• ReutersPakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf will return to lead a new political party to tackle corruption, revive the sluggish economy and step up the fight against Islamist militants. Musharraf, who quit office in 2008 to avoid impeachment
Video Hints at Executions by Pakistanis
• NY TimesAn Internet video showing men in Pakistani military uniforms executing six young men in civilian clothes has heightened concerns about unlawful killings by Pakistani soldiers supported by the United States.
Congress sends intelligence bill to Obama
• APAfter months of argument over lawmakers' access to briefings on top-secret intelligence, Congress sent the first intelligence authorization bill since 2004 to President Obama with language meant to strengthen oversight of sensitive spy operations.
Helicopter Attacks Militant Meeting in Somalia
• NY TimesAn unidentified military helicopter blasted rockets at a house where Somali militants were meeting on Sunday, according to residents and insurgent leaders, in an apparent strike against the Shabab insurgent group.
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