All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The Boston Globe:
Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned Al Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. ( read the article)

< http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/09/libya.jail/> CNN:
As we first stepped into Libya's forbidding Abu Salim jail we had no idea what to expect.
We'd been negotiating for a year to get in, we'd had meetings in cafes, hotels, on street corners; we'd sent emails, countless text messages and phone calls.
(read the article)

AP:
Switzerland has opened its own investigation into the case of a nuclear physicist France suspected of al-Qaida links, an official said Sunday. (read the article)

AP:
Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al Qaeda terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts. (read the article)

The New York Times:

Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country. (read the article)

AP:

Using sweeping security codes passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United Arab Emirates' highest court convicted an American citizen Monday on terrorism-related charges amid claims that torture was used to extract his confession. (read the article)

The Washington Post:
A federal judge on Monday disclosed the existence of videotapes that may reveal potentially abusive interrogations of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and ordered the government to provide copies of the tapes to the man's lawyers. (read the article)

The Independent:
The French intelligence service has warned of a new terrorism threat from suicide bombers carrying in-body explosives that can't be detected by standard airport screening. The method was used in a failed attempt to kill the Saudi anti-terrorism chief in August. (read the article)

CNN:

Several people who traveled from New York to Pakistan last year with a man accused of plotting a terrorist attack have since returned to the United States, sources close to the investigation told CNN. (read the article)

The Dallas Morning News:

After terrorists slammed airliners into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, the law-enforcement community had one overriding priority – preventing another attack. (read the article)