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Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rick Gladstone - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press Staff - Jan. 09 (News Report) - An Iranian court has convicted a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

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CIA urged to be more open about climate change

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Suzanne Goldenberg - Nov. 15 (News Report) - After a year of epic weather, drought, heatwaves, hurricanes and floods, America's intelligence establishment has come out with a bold new suggestion: maybe it's time the CIA stopped treating climate change as a secret. A new report from the Defence Science Board – a US government agency – urges the CIA to step outside its traditional culture of secrecy and begin sharing the intelligence it has been gathering on climate change. The report, Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security, goes as far as to recommend the establishment of a new agency devoted to the study of climate change – one that would operate in the open and transparent manner so alien to the CIA. The report is the latest in the series of blows to CIA's climate centre, which has been struggling to justify its existence to the public since its establishment ...

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Obama expected to announce major Afghan drawdown

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Davis S. Cloud, Christi Parsons - Jun. 21 (News Report) - President Obama plans to announce a troop reduction in Afghanistan that Pentagon and other administration officials say is expected to bring home about 10,000 personnel by the end of the year.

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Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Risen - Jun. 16 (News) - A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him.

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Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Eric Schmitt, Mark Mazzetti - Jun. 15 (News) - Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.

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Pakistan arrests five men for helping CIA spy on Bin Laden house

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Declan Walsh - Jun. 15 (News) - Pakistani intelligence has detained five alleged CIA informants who spied on Osama bin Laden in the months before the al-Qaida chief was killed in a special forces raid, US and Pakistani officials have said.

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Outgoing US defence secretary slams NATO

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:51:45 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 10 (News) - Robert Gates, the US defence secretary who is set to retire at the end of this month, has blasted European allies for risking "collective military irrelevance" unless NATO members bear more of the burden and boost military spending in operations such as Libya and Afghanistan.

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CIA flew stealth drones into Pakistan to monitor bin Laden house

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Greg Miller - May. 18 (News Report) - The CIA employed sophisticated new stealth drone aircraft to fly dozens of secret missions deep into Pakistani airspace and monitor the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, current and former U.S. officials said.

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Post-Osama, Pak warns US of supply line cut

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - May. 15 (News Report) - Still angry over the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to American missile strikes against Islamist militants on their soil on Saturday, and warned that Pakistan may cut NATO's supply line to Afghanistan if the attacks don't stop. The nonbinding parliamentary resolution reflects the precarious state of the US-Pakistani alliance, which is vital to the war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. The bin Laden raid has brought to the fore a longstanding dilemma that US strikes that Washington says kill militants often are seen by Pakistanis as a violation of sovereignty with mostly civilian victims, exacerbating an already-high anti-American sentiment. During a visit to Afghanistan, US Sen John Kerry, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on Pakistan to be a better partner in the fight against terrorists.

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Bin Laden journal reveals his calculations for another 9/11-style attack

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ariel Zirulnick - May. 12 (News Report) - The release of more information seized from Osama bin Laden's compound revealed that he thought only another 9/11-scale attack would force the US out of the Arab world.

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U.S. Was Braced for Fight With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Eric Schmitt, Thom Shanker, David E. Sanger - May. 10 (News Report) - President Obama insisted that the assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops, senior administration and military officials said Monday.

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Osama bin Laden mission agreed in secret 10 years ago by US and Pakistan

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Declan Walsh - May. 09 (News Report) - The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago permitting a US operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil similar to last week's raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, the Guardian has learned.

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Bin Laden’s likely successor is a divisive figure

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock, Joby Warrick - May. 08 (News Report) - A week after the death of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda still has not publicly anointed a successor, and the most likely heir apparent could prove to be a divisive figure within the terrorist network.

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Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Steven Swinford - May. 05 (News) - The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.

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Data Show Bin Laden Plots; C.I.A. Hid Near Raided House

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Mazzetti, Scott Shane - May. 05 (News Report) - After reviewing computer files and documents seized at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, American intelligence analysts have concluded that the chief of Al Qaeda played a direct role for years in plotting terror attacks from his hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, United States officials said Thursday.

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Bin Laden Raid Revives Debate on Value of Torture

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Scott Shane, Charlie Savage - May. 04 (News Report) - The raid that led to Bin Laden’s death has raised anew the issue of using torture to gain intelligence.

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Osama bin Laden, the face of terror, killed in Pakistan

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - May. 02 (News Report) - The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces have the body of bin Laden. The enormity of the destruction -- the World Trade Center's towers devastated by two hijacked airplanes, the Pentagon partially destroyed by a third hijacked jetliner, a fourth flight crashed in rural Pennsylvania, and more than 3,000 people killed -- gave bin Laden a global presence. The Saudi-born zealot commanded an organization run like a rogue multinational firm, experts said, with subsidiaries operating secretly in dozens of countries, plotting terror, raising money and recruiting young Muslim men -- even boys -- from many nations to its training camps in Afghanistan.

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The Secret Team That Killed bin Laden

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Marc Ambinder - May. 02 (News) - Sunday’s operation provides strong evidence that the CIA and JSOC work well together. Sometimes intelligence needs to be developed rapidly, to get inside the enemy’s operational loop. And sometimes it needs to be cultivated, grown as if it were delicate bacteria in a petri dish.

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The Secret Team That Killed Osama bin Laden - Marc Ambinder - International - The Atlantic

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Marc Ambinder - May. 02 (News) - DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak. We only hear about JSOC when something goes bad (a British aid worker is accidentally killed) or when something really big happens (a merchant marine captain is rescued at sea), and even then, the military remains especially sensitive about their existence. Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story -- generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. That's the code.

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CIA’s brain drain: Since 9/11, some top officials have moved to private sector

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Julie Tate - Apr. 13 (Special Report) - In the decade since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, private intelligence firms and security consultants have peeled away veterans from the top reaches of the CIA, hiring scores of longtime officers in large part to gain access to the burgeoning world of intelligence contracting.

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Pakistan Tells U.S. It Must Sharply Cut C.I.A. Activities

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jane Perlez, Ismail Khan - Apr. 12 (News) - The demand that the United States scale back its presence is a sign of the near collapse of cooperation between the two testy allies after the arrest of a C.I.A. security officer in Pakistan.

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C.I.A. Agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt - Mar. 31 (News Report) - The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces, according to American officials.

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Revealed: US military's social media spy operation

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ian Cobain - Mar. 17 (News) - The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media using fake online personas designed to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract wit

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CIA contractor Raymond Davis freed after ‘blood money’ payment

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Greg Miller, Shaiq Hussain - Mar. 16 (News) - A CIA security contractor who fatally shot two Pakistani men in January was released Wednesday after relatives of the victims received “blood money” as compensation and agreed to pardon him, U.S. officials said.

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