All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The NY Times:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. (read the article)

The Washington Times:

U.S. national security agencies remain woefully short of foreign-language speakers and translators nearly eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks resulted in a war on an enemy that often communicates in relatively obscure dialects, current and former officials say. (read the article)

The NY Times:
Despite repeated denials by President Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan officials have continued to assist commanders of Colombia’s largest rebel group, helping them arrange weapons deals in Venezuela and even obtain identity cards to move with ease on Venezuelan soil, according to computer material captured from the rebels in recent months and under review by Western intelligence agencies.
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Los Angeles Times:
The two spies were allies and kindred spirits.

Robert Seldon Lady, the CIA station chief in Milan, and Col. Stefano D'Ambrosio, the local head of the SISMI, Italy's intelligence agency, shared pride in their fight against terrorism and disdain for self-serving bosses.
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The Guardian:
Government officials handed confidential police intelligence about environmental activists to the energy giant E.ON before a planned peaceful demonstration, according to private emails seen by the Guardian.
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The Hindu:
Admitting that there were "gaps" in the intelligence set up, the Centre on Thursday said it will take a number of steps, including strengthening laws and setting up a National Investigation Agency (NIA) to insulate the country from terror strikes like in Mumbai.
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Reuters:
Three days before Islamist militants landed in Mumbai to launch deadly attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had warned the country's police chiefs India could not afford another attack.
(read the article)

AFP:
Indian newspapers on Friday slammed the government and intelligence agencies for failing to prevent the Mumbai attacks, saying the country's anti-terrorism forces were ill-prepared for the militants.
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El Khabar:
The Libyan Intelligence Services have unveiled that they have played a key role in the release of the two Austrian hostages, recently, after more than 8 months of abduction by a terrorist group linked to al Qaeda, which claimed responsibility of their abduction southern Tunisia.
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Elaph:
The head of Germany's foreign intelligence agency, Ernst Uhrlau, told reporters that al Qaedaʼs training operations are currently shifting from Afghanistan to Mali and Mauritania. Uhrlau said that terrorists from Algeria, Morocco, Somalia and Nigeria are now turning to the new North Africa camps as a base for their military training, from which they will launch their operations.
(read the article in Arabic