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See through Oz’s new spy HQ
And we do mean literally. Australia is sparing no expense on the new Canberra-based headquarters of its domestic spy agency ASIO, which will be the 2nd largest building in the city. The project’s just begun – tell-tale signs mark...
CIA under investigation
Despite protests (we’ve already conducted an internal investigation; employees who committed abuses have already been duly reprimanded) and extenuating circumstances (the CIA was up against a then very unknown enemy...
Egypt: Trial of Hezbollah spies in ...
This Sunday, Egypt brought 26 alleged Hezbollah agents to the stand, where they were formally accused of passing information to a foreign organization, possession of explosive material and planning terrorist attacks on Egyptian...
CIA’s contractor conundrum
The CIA’s been under a microscope lately, and Director Leon Panetta didn’t help matters by coming clean to Congress this June about a terrorist assassination operation that went on for seven years (unbeknownst to Congress). Worse yet is...
UK spy chief says British intellige...
Allegations are mounting – have MI5 and MI6 agents been involved in the extreme interrogation and torture of terror suspects abroad? It would not be shocking, given the threat of terrorism, the pressure to stop it in its tracks, and...
Moroccan-born ‘Belgian spy’ get...
Although he claims that his contact with terrorist organizations the world over was all part of his undercover work for the Belgian government, the Moroccan courts believe otherwise and have jailed Abdelkader Belliraj (51) for the remainder of his life. He has been convicted of leading a terrorist...
Seven ‘spies’ beheaded in Somal...
In Somalia today, seven people were executed by the fanatic Islamic insurgency for being spies and followers of Christianity. The group responsible for the beheadings is Al Shabaab (Youth in Arabic), a rebel faction affiliated with Al Qaeda. Al Shabaab is committed to overthrowing the Somali government and imposing...
Former CIA spy laments Milan rendit...
An ex-U.S. spy – once a CIA station chief in Italy – recently spoke to the Italian paper Il Giornale about his involvement in a 2003 CIA rendition heist, which took a Muslim cleric (Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr) suspected of terrorist involvement from his home in...
Debate on FBI use of informants in ...
Recently, several news stories have made it more than clear that the FBI is planting informants in mosques around the U.S. to spy on fellow worshipers. There’s the case of the mosque informant who claims the FBI failed to pay him for spying on mosques in Southern California and also that of the homegrown terrorist plot …
Ex-Chinese spy appeals to stay in B...
For once – a Chinese spy caper that has nothing to do with the United States. Beijing has been pressuring Bangkok to extradite Li Yuzhou, a confessed Chinese spy and dissenter, who has been accused of...
NY: Little sympathy for unrepentant...
Four men with plans to bomb two NYC synagogues and shoot down U.S. military planes appeared in court yesterday after being arrested on Wednesday night. A federal prosecutor on the case said that the men – far from being repentant – were disappointed they’d missed out on the...
Informant helps FBI stop NY terrori...
Thanks to an invaluable informant and a carefully orchestrated FBI operation, the plans of four amateur NY-based terrorists have been thwarted. The undercover investigation lasted...
Terrorists use Facebook to recruit ...
So while the FBI is using Facebook and other online marketing tools to help catch fugitives and find missing children, terrorists have decided there may be something in these sites for...
Egypt Charges Alleged Hezbollah Spi...
Forty-nine people – allegedly operatives for the terrorist group Hezbollah – have been charged by Egypt’s attorney general with espionage and plotting to destabilize the nation.
Attorney General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud shared with MENA, the government-run Egyptian news agency, that the accused comprise citizens of Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and Sudan, and that they have been acting as …
Bail Denied for Alleged Al Qaeda Sl...
Tagged as an ‘enemy combatant’ under the Bush Administration, alleged Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri was held in solitary confinement for over five years before finally getting the chance to go to trial this month. As an enemy combatant, he was being held indefinitely, without trial or sentence.
Al-Marri will stand trial for providing material …