News you may have missed #0069
August 17, 2009 Leave a comment
- Book claims Mossad considered murdering Swedish journalist. The Mossad considered assassinating renowned Swedish left-wing journalist Jan Guillou in the 1970s, according to a book just published in Sweden.
- Romania denies allegations it hosted secret CIA prisons. The Romanian Foreign Ministry rejects revelations in a New York Timesarticle that a downtown Bucharest building served as a major secret CIA prison after 9/11.
- Iran releases on bail French woman accused of spying. Clotilde Reiss had been held in Tehran’s Evin jail since being arrested on July 1. She will now have to stay at the French embassy in Tehran while she awaits the verdict in her trial, which was heard on August 8.