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Iran
Issues New Warnings After Defying a Deadline
08/08/2008 Iran warned Monday that it could easily close
a critical Persian Gulf waterway to oil shipments and said
that it had a new long-range naval weapon that could sink
enemy ships nearly 200 miles away. The warning, by the
head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, followed the
weekend expiration of an informal deadline for Iran to
respond to an offer of incentives from six world powers
to stop enriching uranium...
Pakistan
coalition to move for Musharraf impeachment
08/08/2008 Pakistan's ruling coalition will move to impeach
President Pervez Musharraf on charges of plunging the country
into a political and economic crisis, party leaders said
on Thursday. They also warned Musharraf, a former general
who first came to power in a 1999 military coup, against
any attempt to dismiss the government...
Afghanistan
accusing Pakistan of aiding insurgents
08/07/2008 Afghanistan's spy agency alleged on Wednesday
that a member of Pakistan's consulate in the country's
south helped a Taliban commander in his attempts to weaken
the government. The allegation will likely further strain
the acrimonious relations between the two key U.S. allies
in the region...
Bin
Laden Driver Convicted Of Supporting Al-Qaida
08/07/2008 Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver,
was convicted of providing material support for terrorism
but found not guilty of conspiracy by a panel of six military
officers at Guantanamo Bay. Hamdan, a Yemeni who faces
up to a life sentence, held his head in his hands and wept
when the verdict was read. A sentencing hearing was scheduled
for Wednesday afternoon...
White
House 'buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs'
08/06/2008 Tony Blair and George Bush both saw intelligence
contradicting the rationale for invading Iraq, a new book
claims. MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq
that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein
had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was
passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according
to a new book...
Stop
the 'war' on terror
08/06/2008 Military might against Al Qaeda and other terrorist
groups isn't working – and no wonder. After studying
the record of 648 terrorist groups between 1968 and 2006,
we've found that military force has rarely been effective
in defeating this enemy. Indeed, the US reliance on military
force – especially conventional military forces – has
often been counterproductive...
Pentagon
closes post-9/11 CIFA intelligence unit
08/05/2008 The Pentagon said it was closing a controversial
intelligence office that had stirred concerns about domestic
spying by the military after the September 11 attacks.
The Defense Department said it had "disestablished" the
Counterintelligence Field Activity office, or CIFA, created
in February 2002 by former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
to manage defence and armed service efforts against intelligence
threats from foreign powers and groups such as al-Qaeda...
Officials
investigating threats of Al-Qaida attacks in Europe
08/05/2008 Senior European intelligence officials
are investigating threats that Al-Qaida may try to attack
locations
within the European Union. The threats range from dissemination
of propaganda to suicide attacks, and they come in the
wake of Al-Qaida's announcement Sunday confirming the death
of Abu Khabab al-Masri, one of the organization's top commanders,
in an air strike in Pakistan...
Top
al-Qaeda man now back in Kenya
08/04/2008 A suspected Al-Qaeda mastermind and key
suspect of the 1998 American Embassy bombing in Nairobi
is in Kenya,
but has eluded a police dragnet. Fazul Abdullah Mohamed
escaped arrest in Malindi at the weekend after sneaking
into the country from Somalia a few days earlier. Fazul
beat the police in his trails by an hour when he left a
house he had been staying for the past week...
Iran
ignores deadline to agree to talks on nuclear program
08/04/2008 Over the weekend, Iran failed to respond to
an informal two-week deadline to give a yes-or-no answer
to negotiations on dismantling crucial parts of its nuclear
program. It was instead busy in a flurry of diplomatic
and military activity to bolster its position. On Saturday
and Sunday, Tehran received a Syrian delegation led by
President Bashar Assad, an important Iranian ally, in an
apparent effort to coordinate diplomatic strategy and fend
off any possible U.S. or Israeli attack...
Iran
defiant on nuclear deadline
08/03/2008 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said
his country will not retreat "one iota" on its
nuclear programme. He was speaking after meeting Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, who is on a two-day visit to
Tehran. The meeting coincided with an informal deadline
set by Western officials in a dispute over Tehran's uranium
enrichment plans...
Ahmadinejad
adamant on nuclear issue
08/03/2008 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted
Saturday that Tehran will not give up its "nuclear
rights," according to the official website of the
Iranian leader, in remarks that rebuffed an informal deadline
set by the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members
and Germany. Any participation by Iran in international
talks on the nuclear issue would "definitely be aimed
at reinforcing" those rights, Ahmadinejad was quoted
as saying in the report... US
President Bush order shifts intelligence roles
08/02/2008 President Bush's new executive order revising
rules for intelligence agencies expands the national intelligence
director's powers and may further erode the CIA's autonomy.
The order, revised in secret and signed Wednesday, drew
criticism from civil liberties groups and lawmakers. House
Republicans on the Intelligence Committee walked out of
a briefing on the order yesterday to protest what they
consider to be White House disrespect for congressional
oversight...
Conflicts
Arise As Intelligence Community Expands
08/02/2008 During the Cold War era, the CIA was the only
U.S. spy agency. But as threats to national security have
become more diverse, other government agencies - such as
the FBI and the DEA - are recruiting foreign informants
and pursuing their own intelligence leads. And that's causing
competition and conflict...
Overhaul
Elevates Intelligence Director (USA)
07/31/2008 The White House is expected Thursday to unveil
the largest overhaul of intelligence powers in a generation,
spelling out the responsibilities of each intelligence
agency in the wake of several reforms following the 2001
terrorist attacks, according to government officials familiar
with the plans. President George W. Bush signed the executive
order updating spy powers Wednesday, the officials said...
CIA
cites Pakistan spy agency's ties to militants
07/31/2008 U.S. intelligence suspects rogue elements in
Pakistan's spy agency are giving militants sensitive information
that helps them launch more effective attacks from the
tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a Bush administration
official said Wednesday. Top CIA and U.S. military officials
recently traveled to the country to press their concerns
about the apparent ties with Pakistani officials... Ahmadinejad
calls for greater activism from NAM
07/30/2008 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right)
with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Tehran
on Tuesday. Iran has urged countries belonging to the Non
Aligned Movement (NAM) to establish a collective fund as
part of an effort to overhaul the existing global financial
political architecture. In his inaugural address to NAM
Foreign Ministers on Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said big powers were dominating the world through
an elaborate network of institutions such as the United
Nations Security Council and the international banking
system...
Barak
Says Israel Keeps Options Open on Iran Threat
07/30/2008 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said options
including a military strike are still open to his government
in dealing with the threat from Iran's nuclear program. "I
told the senior people I met here that Iran is a major
threat to the stability of the whole world," Barak
told reporters after meeting Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice at the State Department today in Washington for two
hours... Bush,
Pakistan PM Hold Talks Amid Rising Concern Over Afghan
Violence
07/29/2008 President Bush has met at the White House with
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. The Bush administration
wants the Pakistanis to do more to confront extremists
and terrorists that have flourished along the Pakistani
side of the border. But at the same time, Washington does
not want to alienate Pakistan's government...
Iran
Not Building Nuclear Bomb, Ahmadinejad Tells NBC
07/29/2008 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told
NBC News that Iran isn't developing nuclear weapons and
the country would respond positively to a new approach
from the U.S. "We are not working to manufacture a
bomb,'' NBC's Brian Williams quoted Ahmadinejad as saying
following an interview with the president in Tehran. ``Nuclear
weapons are so 20th century."...
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