Investigative Round-Up: CBSNews.com

German Kidnapped In Afghanistan May Have Been Killed: Police

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:19:13 EDT

AFP:
A German national kidnapped in western Afghanistan seven months ago may have been killed after a ransom was not paid, police said Wednesday.
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Afghan Secret Service Alerted India On Terror Cell

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:16:38 EDT

The Hindu:
Afghanistan"s secret service, the Riyast-e-Amniyat-i-Milli, provided precision intelligence on the jihadist cell which executed last week"s bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, highly placed government sources have told The Hindu.
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Why Some Terrorists Make the Choice to Leave al Qaeda

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:14:18 EDT

U.S. News & World Report:
When it comes to exploring why people join the ranks of the al Qaeda terrorist network, scholars and intelligence officials have offered a host of possible motivators, ranging from the disenfranchisement of a particular tribe or sect to more general humiliation, marginalization, and alienation from society.
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Problems Persist With Red Cross Blood Services

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:28:07 EDT

New York Times:
For 15 years, the American Red Cross has been under a federal court order to improve the way it collects and processes blood. Yet, despite $21 million in fines since 2003 and repeated promises to follow procedures intended to ensure the safety of the nationʼs blood supply, it continues to fall short.
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Afghan Secret Service Alerted India On Terror Cell

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:24:47 EDT

The Hindu:
Afghanistanʼs secret service, the Riyast-e-Amniyat-i-Milli, provided precision intelligence on the jihadist cell which executed last weekʼs bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, highly placed government sources have told The Hindu.
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Companies Defraud Government For Millions

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:24:47 EDT

AP:
Companies collected millions of dollars in government contracts by claiming to have main offices in poor neighborhoods that were actually empty duplexes, part-time offices and other ineligible locations, congressional investigators charge.
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Top Qaeda Operative Held In Multan

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:02:36 EDT

Daily Times:
Security agencies arrested a top Al Qaeda operative late on Monday along with his two accomplices in Punjabʼs southern city of Multan, sources told Daily Times on Tuesday.
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Fatah Voice: "Al Qaeda In Palestine" Planned To Assassinate Blair

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:50:15 EDT

Fatah Voice:
Special Mideast envoy Tony Blair has cancelled a visit to Gaza due to security threats, according to the pro-Fatah news service website "Fatah voice." The website claimed that "al Qaeda in Palestine" has a plan to assassinate the former British Prime Minister with snipers, dozens of suicide bombers and three car bombs. The article said that the spokesperson of al Qaeda in Palestine, Hamza al Ghamedi had strongly criticized Hamas for welcoming Blair"s visit and voiced his disappointment over its cancellation.
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Pop-Singer Turned Militant Tells His Story

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:48:13 EDT

Alwatan:
Former Kuwaiti pop-singer Hussein al Ahmad was arrested last week by Kuwaiti authorities upon his return from Afghanistan after reports about him attending a militant training camp over there. Al Ahmad confessed to his investigators that he traveled to Afghanistan to join the fighting, but was disappointed to find that most of the militants there were drug users.
"I went there via Iran, to join the jihad and help Muslim brothers there emerge victorious," al Ahmad said. "When I started my military training, I was hit by the drug consumption and the systematic attempts to get young jihadis carry out suicide operations using suicide belts, in order to become martyrs." Al Ahmad said he decided to escape back to Kuwait after he"s heard the religious edicts about fighting and the shortest ways to paradise. "I got really scared and I began planning my escape out of Afghanistan."
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Secret Footage Of Teenager's Pleas Exposes Life In Guant namo Prison

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:44:50 EDT

Guardian:
The secrets of interrogation at Guant namo Bay prison camp were broadcast for the first time yesterday in grainy footage of a teenage inmate calling for his mother and begging: "Help me, help me."
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