CIA
Deadly blast at CIA base in Afghanistan
Source : Agencies | 26 Dec 2012
A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the same base that is believed to be used by the CIA and which a suicide bomber attacked three years ago killing seven CIA employees.
The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the eastern town of Khost, saying they had sent a suicide bomber driving a van packed with explosives to the base.
"The target was those who serve Americans at that base," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
US Treasury Claim of Iran-Al-Qaeda "Secret Deal" Is Discredited
By Gareth Porter | IPS | Washington | 11 May 2012
The U.S. Treasury Department's claim of a "secret deal" between Iran and Al-Qaeda, which had become a key argument by right-wing activists who support war against Iran, has been discredited by former intelligence officials in the wake of publication of documents from Osama bin Laden's files revealing a high level of antagonism between Al-Qaeda and Iran.
CIA seeks new authority to expand Yemen drone campaign
By Greg Miller | The Washington Post | 19 Apr 2012
The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed, U.S. officials said.
US Court Denies British MPs Access to Information about Rendition, Torture
By Richard Norton-Taylor | The Guardian/UK | 11 Apr 2012
Tony Blair, who was prime minister when MI6 rendered Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a prominent Libyan dissident, to the Gaddafi regime in 2004, says he has "no recollection" of the incident.
But he says he was sure the operation would be investigated "as it should be". Interviewed for BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, Blair said it should be remembered that "people in the Middle East were also trying to fight terrorism and extremism", and that Britain's co-operation with Libya at the time was important.
Iran leader says CIA, Mossad behind scientist's death
By AFP | Tehran |13 Jan 2012
Iran's supreme leader has accused the US and Israeli intelligence services of being behind the "abominable" assassination in Tehran this week of a nuclear scientist who was to be buried on Friday.
The "cowardly murder" on Wednesday of Moustafa Ahmadi Roshan, a deputy director of Iran's main uranium enrichment plant, was committed "with the planning or support of the intelligence services of the CIA and Mossad," said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Inside Romania's Secret CIA Prison
by Matt Apuzzo : AP | Washington / 08 Dec 2011
In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the center of Romania's capital city, is a secret that the Romanian government has tried for years to protect.
In Libya, former enemy is recast in role of ally
By Rod Nordland : The New York Times | 01 Sept 2011, TRIPOLI
Abdel Hakim Belhaj had a wry smile about the oddity of his situation.
Yes, he said, he was detained by Malaysian officials in 2004 on arrival at the Kuala Lumpur airport, where he was subjected to extraordinary rendition on behalf of the United States, and sent to Thailand. His pregnant wife, traveling with him, was taken away, and his child would be 6 before he saw him.
