Blair foreign policy adviser
David Manning says US president talked up possible links between Saddam and al-Qaida

George Bush tried to make a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida in a conversation with
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Osama Bin Laden was within military reach when the Bush administration allowed him to disappear into the mountains of Afghanistan rather than pursue him with a massive military force, a new
Senate report says.
The report asserts that the failure to get the terrorist leader when he was at his mos
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Eight are charged with recruiting young Somali Americans in Minn.
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Federal authorities unsealed
terrorism-related charges against eight men Monday, accusing them of recruiting at least 2
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By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
COLORADO SPRINGS — The commander of military forces protecting North
America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style
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Having a famous father is not always easy: the burden of expectation can weigh heavily on young shoulders. So what to do when your surname is Bin Laden?
In an interview with the
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Stephen Dinan and Kara Rowland
House Republicans say they'll make Democrats feel the political heat for President Obama's decision to try Sept. 11 attack plotters in U.S. civilian courts by trying to force a vote on a bill to block those trials.
Republicans will launch a discharge petition -- which m
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ISLAMABAD – A suicide attack on the northwestern headquarters of Pakistan's spy agency Friday showed how militants have turned against an institution that once nurtured them and marked an escalation in their war against the U.S.-backed government.
The truck bombing was the second this year against offices of the intelligence agency, which has helped the CIA track down and arrest many al-Qaida suspects since 2001 but is still suspected by some Western officials of sympathiz
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U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
According to the officials, the Army was informed of Hasan's contact, but it is unclear what, if anything, the Army did in response.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested
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The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday.
Intelligence subcommittee Chairwomen Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) are leading an ongoing investigation into what they described as a practice of incomplete and often misleading intelligence briefings, which arose in the wake of CIA Director Leon Panetta’s June 24 admission that intelligence officials failed to notify Congres
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A nuclear scientist arrested by armed police is said to have admitted plotting an Al Qaeda terrorist atrocity, possibly in Britain.
Dr Adlene Hicheur, 32, has confessed to talking over the internet with the North African branch of the terror organisation about attack
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NEW YORK - An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior al-Qaida operative, intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.
The CIA learned about Najibullah Zazi through one of its sources and alerted domestic agencies, including the FBI, intelligence officials said. The officials, who declined to offer more details on the operative, spoke on condit
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DALLAS, Texas (CNN) -- Texas terrorism suspect Hosam Smadi recorded a seven-minute video message for al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden before his arrest on charges of plotting to blow up a Dallas building, an FBI agent testified Monday.
No details of the message were provided in court. But FBI Special Agent Thomas Petrowski said the video was recorded in a hotel room with the assistance of undercover FBI operatives and Smadi intended for it to be delivered to or seen by
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As the eighth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the nation's top military officer sought to rally fading support for the Afghan war on Sunday with a warning about the enduring Al Qaeda threat to the U.S.
"I don't think that threat is going to go away," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said of Al Qaeda. The threat "is one which we're very focused on, making sure i
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CIA in 2004 hired contractors from the private security firm Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to track and assassinate senior al Qaeda figures, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Blackwater helped with planning, tr
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Social networking is not just for the MySpace generation. Intelligence agencies are adopting a controversial new technique to identify terrorist masterminds
Intelligence agencies are building up a Facebook-style databank of international terrorists in order to sift through it with complex computer programs aimed at identifying key figure
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A senior al Qaeda military leader says that Western spies are using a panoply of disguises in their efforts to undermine militant extremist groups — and being extremely successful at it.
In a new book, published online and translated by the National Intelligence Directorate as well as the intelligence blog Secrecy News, an al Qaeda field commander in Afghanistan
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Added by The Watchmen on July 14, 2009 at 10:04am —
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Written by Siobhan Gorman for
The Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2009. Evan Perez and Elizabeth Williamson contributed to this article.
WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director
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Added by The Watchmen on July 13, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Recent revelations concerning the U.S. importing Taliban members into Iraq to foster false flag terrorism is merely the tip of the iceberg when compared to the U.S. intelligence complex’s multi-decade history in sponsoring Sunni Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups around the world.
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Added by The Watchmen on July 3, 2009 at 9:23am —
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