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• DTN News: U.S. to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban

  BNET - 2009-08-11

  DTN News: U.S. to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban*Source: DTN News / The New York Times By James RisenNSI News Source Info WASHINGTON - August 10, 2009: Fifty Afghans believed to be drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban have been placed on a Pentagon target list...

  Tags: policy, U.S. Senate, NATO, Afghanistan, Pentagon

• USS Cole demands justice

  - 2008-07-09

  Nearly eight years ago, 17 American sailors were killed and dozens wounded when the USS Cole, a Navy destroyer, was attacked while it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. This past week, the Pentagon announced it will seek the death penalty against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi...

  Tags: attack, CIA, Pentagon, SECURITY

• War and indecision

  - 2008-06-16

  War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, by Douglas J. Feith (Harper, 688 pp., $27.95) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THIS book, an analytical description of a dysfunctional National Security Council and disloyal senior officials, will be studied for years by journalists, historians, and...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Government, Iraq, Pentagon, president

• Pentagon: Top al-Qaida figure caught last year

  - 2008-03-15

  WASHINGTON -- After secret interrogations, the CIA transferred to U.S. military custody a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon announced Friday. Mohammad Rahim was detained last summer, CIA Director Michael Hayden said, but the intelligence official didn't reveal...

  Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, Pentagon, U.S.

• Bin Laden associate in US custody: Pentagon

  - 2008-03-14

  WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon Friday disclosed the capture of an Afghan national who helped arrange Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora in the mountains of Afghanistan in late 2001. Muhammed Rahim, described as one of Bin Laden's most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists, was turned...

  Tags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, CIA, Leadership, Pentagon

• Death penalty sought for 9/11 conspirators

  - 2008-02-11

  WASHINGTON AFP — Military prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against six Al-Qaeda detainees on murder and conspiracy charges in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the Pentagon announced Monday. The Pentagon called the charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the attacks that...

  Tags: attack, CIA, mastermind, Pentagon, prosecutor, terror

• Guantanamo detainee given access to a lawyer

  - 2007-10-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon said Tuesday it is allowing one of 15 so-called "high value" detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to see a lawyer for the first time. Majid Khan, a Pakistani who lived in Baltimore, Maryland before his capture in Pakistan in 2003, was taken to Guantanamo...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, lawyer, Pentagon, SECURITY

• Remains of CIA pilot 'Earthquake McGoon' identified

  - 2007-05-23

  WASHINGTON AFP — The remains of a legendary CIA pilot shot down while dropping supplies to besieged French troops during the battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam have been identified, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The remains of James McGovern Jr, known as "Earthquake McGoon," were returned to his...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, aircraft, CIA, Manufacturing, Pentagon, Vietnam

• Top Al Qaeda operative taken into US custody

  - 2007-04-27

  WASHINGTON AFP — A top Al-Qaeda commander who led operations in Afghanistan and plotted the assassination of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has been taken into US custody, the Pentagon said Friday. Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi, who was taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within the past week, was intercepted as...

  Tags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, attack, CIA, Iraq, Pakistan, Pentagon, president, SECURITY

• Al-Qaeda suspect confesses to 9/11, Pearl killing

  - 2007-03-14

  WASHINGTON AFP — Top Al-Qaeda suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to plotting 31 terror attacks including September 11 and personally beheading US journalist Daniel Pearl, the Pentagon said on Thursday. In a closed-door hearing before a panel of US military officers, the Pakistani national admitted to masterminding terror...

  Tags: CIA, Government, officer, Pentagon, transcript