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• CIA places blame for Bhutto assassination: U.S. paper

  - 2008-01-21

  WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 Kyodo The CIA has concluded that members of al-Qaida and allies of Pakistani tribal leader Baitullah Mehsud were responsible for last month's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the Washington Post reported Friday. They also stand behind a new wave...

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• Al-Qaeda, tribal leader behind Bhutto assassination: CIA chief

  - 2008-01-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — Al-Qaeda and allies of Pakistani tribal leader Baitullah Mehsud were behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the US intelligence chief was quoted as saying Friday. A newly active alliance between local and international terrorists poses a grave risk to Pakistan's government, CIA Director Michael Hayden told...

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• 9/11 commission leaders blast CIA on interrogation tapes

  - 2008-01-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — The leaders of a US commission that examined the September 11, 2001 terror attacks accused the CIA Wednesday of having obstructed their investigation by withholding information about videotaped interrogations of terror suspects. The goal of the blue ribbon 9/11 Commission, wrote chairman Thomas Kean and vice-chairman...

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• CIA rejects 9/11 commission leaders criticism on destroyed tapes

  - 2008-01-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — The CIA on Wednesday rejected criticism from the leaders of a US commission that examined the attacks of September 11, 2001, saying the agency cooperated fully with the investigation. The co-chairmen of the blue ribbon 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, wrote in The New...

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• Castro's head worth US $150,000 to CIA.(CUBA)

  - 2007-08-01

  The US Central Intelligence Agency CIA offered US$150,000 to Mafia figures to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, just one of several CIA plots against foreign leaders detailed in 693 pages of classified US documents recently released, reports AFP (June 27, 2007): Other CIA targets,...

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• Castro's head worth 150,000 dollars: CIA files

  - 2007-06-26

  WASHINGTON AFP — The CIA offered 150,000 dollars to mafia figures to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, just one of several CIA plots against foreign leaders detailed in 693 pages of classified US documents released Tuesday. Other targets of CIA targets, long alleged but only now revealed in the...

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• Bush meets pope as anti-war protesters gather

  - 2007-06-09

  VATICAN CITY AFP — US President George W. Bush had his first private audience at the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday as anti-war protesters gathered in Rome amid heavy security. The US leader told European journalists last month that he would be in "a listening mode" during...

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• COLOMBIA: FINANCE MINISTER, MORE CONGRESSMEMBERS IMPLICATED IN "PARAPOLITICS" SCANDAL, U.S. MONEY FROZEN AFTER CIA REPORTS LEAKS.

  - 2007-05-04

  More members of the Colombian Congress are facing charges that they had links with paramilitary death squads while the country's recently installed finance minister has admitted to making policy with a paramilitary leader. President Alvaro Uribe's s More members of the Colombian Congress are facing...

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• Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Al-Qaeda thriller

  - 2007-04-09

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star in a new drama about a CIA agent hunting for a top Al-Qaeda leader, it was reported on Monday. DiCaprio, who received an Oscar nomination this year for his performance in action-adventure "Blood Diamond," is being lined up...

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• Leaders offer insight, advice at CIA's women in industry day

  - 2007-03-05

  HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- Twelve female industry leaders recently shared their experiences and advice with students at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., during the college's second annual Women in Industry day.

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