Tag: Cia

Instead of sharing intelligence about the hideout of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad with Pakistan, the United States not only took...

Pakistan has agreed to allow the CIA to send a forensics team to examine the compound where al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was killed,...

President Barack Obama thanked the US intelligence community on Friday for helping track down and kill Osama bin Laden and warned remaining members of...

The CIA flew new stealth drone planes on dozens of secret missions deep into Pakistan to monitor Osama bin Laden's compound before US commandos...

The crown prince of Abu Dhabi has hired the founder of private security firm Blackwater Worldwide to set up an 800-member battalion of foreign...

The CIA has begun showing lawmakers death photos of slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden that US President Barack Obama said were too...

Fresh tension erupted between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) after several Pakistani media outlets published the alleged name of the...

Former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf has said that neither CIA nor Afghan intelligence agencies had provided any solid evidence about Osama bin Laden’s...

Extensive surveillance of Osama bin Laden's hideout from a nearby CIA safe house in Abbottabad led to his killing on May 2. The US...

A US cable, released by WikiLeaks on many social websites including Twitter, has revealed that the US spy agency operatives knew since year 2008...

AMMAN - The brother of a Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan in 2009 has been arrested, their mother said Tuesday, after police clashed wtih Salafist protesters. "Security forces arrested my son Ayman Balawi, 36, Friday midnight when he was home, although he did not take part in Zarqa's demonstration that day," Shennara Awwad told AFP. More than 90 people, most of them policemen, were hurt on Friday when protesters from the ultra-conservative Sunni

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and the United States have agreed to give a greater role to Britain in efforts to eradicate terrorism on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border and one important part of this "trilateral arrangement" is the takeover of most intelligence operations by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from the US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Relations between the CIA and ISI went downhill after Raymond Davis, one of the latter's contract spies, killed two

LAHORE - The Central Investigation Agency (CIA) has established its own spy network in the tribal areas of Pakistan, reported The Economic Times newspaper while quoted various sources.
The US said the CIA no longer required any collaboration with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to specify targets for drone strikes. According to a US official, the network was developed during the last two years.
The newspaper says the meeting between the spymasters, CIA Director Leon

WASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence Agency has no plans to suspend "operations" in Pakistan against terror suspects despite objections from leaders in Islamabad, a US official said.
Pakistan has criticized missile strikes by US drone aircraft against militants in the country but CIA Director Leon Panetta has told intelligence officials that he has a duty to prevent attacks on the United States, the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
"Panetta

LAHORE - Indonesian militant Umar Patek is considered one of world's most dangerous terrorism suspects for whom the US offered a $1-million reward in 2005. Intelligence experts say he possesses a wealth of information about the al Qaeda-linked groups in Southeast Asia. Yet the US has made no move to interrogate or seek his custody since he was apprehended earlier this year by in Pakistan with the help of a CIA tip, The Los Angeles Times reports while quoting the US and Pakistani

ISLAMABAD - Despite the US providing a list of all CIA-linked contractors operating in Pakistan to authorities as demanded in the wake of the Raymond Davis fiasco, almost all such "dubious characters" still happen to be inside Pakistan. The US authorities have shared with Pakistani officials the exact number of CIA-linked contractors in Pakistan, as well as details of their whereabouts and nature of jobs.
Defence circles in Islamabad believe that almost all details required have

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Thursday spelt out serious concerns over the current state of the relationship between the two major allies in the US-led anti-terrorism campaign with the presence of a large network of CIA operatives on Pakistani soil at the top of complaints' list.
Pakistani authorities also warned that a delay in action on the part of Washington to address Islamabad's concerns could jeopardise the cooperation between the two countries in the fight against terrorism. The