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• Teen had assault guns, map to White House retreat: report

  - 2008-08-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — Police are investigating a Washington area teenager who allegedly had amassed an arsenal of deadly assault weapons and bomb-making materials, along with a map to the US president's weekend retreat, press reports said Wednesday. Authorities said recent high school graduate Collin McKenzie-Gude -- who had a...

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• CIA leak columnist retires after 'dire' tumor diagnosis

  - 2008-08-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — Conservative US columnist Robert Novak, whose unmasking of a covert CIA agent sparked a political and legal firestorm, said Monday he was retiring after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Novak, who announced he was suffering from the tumor late last month, said the medical prognosis...

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• Karadzic protected by US until he broke 'deal': Belgrade report

  - 2008-08-02

  BELGRADE AFP — Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his "deal", the Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source. The newspaper claims Karadzic was secretly granted immunity in return...

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• Pakistan intelligence rift shows deepening US frustration: analysts

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — A reported rift between the US and Pakistani intelligence agencies reflects deepening US frustration over Islamabad's role in a worsening insurgency in Afghanistan, analysts said here. Suspicions about Pakistani intentions have grown in recent weeks following a suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, a...

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• Bush to unveil US intelligence overhaul

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush will Thursday unveil an overhaul of the US intelligence services that strips the CIA of some power to work with foreign intelligence agencies, a White House spokeswoman said. The executive order, signed by Bush on Wednesday, "clarifies and strengthens the authorities...

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• Journalist submits to waterboarding

  - 2008-07-02

  NEW YORK AFP — British-American writer Christopher Hitchens voluntarily submitted to waterboarding and concluded that the controversial interrogation technique used by the CIA is torture, he said in a magazine article published Wednesday. Hitchens said in the Vanity Fair article that he contacted members of the US special forces...

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• CIA rendered 14 prisoners to Jordan: report

  - 2008-04-08

  NEW YORK AFP — The CIA secretly transported at least 14 war on terror detainees to Jordan between 2001 and 2004, making it the top "rendition" destination at that time, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. "While a handful of countries received persons rendered by the United States during this...

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• CIA kidnapping trial resumes in Italy

  - 2008-03-19

  ROME AFP — A Milan court on Wednesday resumed the "CIA-gate" trial of 26 US citizens accused in the February 2003 CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian imam in the northern city, a court-appointed lawyer said. Judge Oscar Magi had suspended the trial last June to allow the Constitutional Court...

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• US universities turn schools for spies and more

  - 2008-03-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — That young American exchange student who stayed with you last summer to do a language immersion course could be part of a new program to educate the next generation of US intelligence agents. But don't worry: even if she does end up working for the CIA,...

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• CIA chief says China not acting as "responsible" major power

  - 2008-03-13

  WASHINGTON AFP — CIA chief Michael Hayden said in a report Thursday that China was not behaving like a responsible major power, accusing the Asian giant of pouring aid to South Pacific islands merely to win UN votes. Chinese communist leaders "have not yet stepped up to the responsibility...

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