News you may have missed #528

• Bin Laden’s courier linked to Pakistan spy agency. A mobile phone found last month during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout shows that Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the al-Qaida leader’s closest courier, regularly communicated with commanders of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a terrorist group linked to Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency.
• Egypt remands Israeli spy suspect in custody. Egypt has decided to remand in custody spy suspect Ilan Grapel, a US-Israeli joint citizen, despite Israel’s insistence he is innocent of espionage.
• US extradites fugitive Philippine police officer who served time for espionage. This blog has covered the strange case of Michael Ray Aquino since 2009. In 2006, Aquino was imprisoned for supplying classified FBI intelligence on the Philippines to political forces opposed to the government of President Gloria Arroyo. As intelNews has already shown, Aquino’s extradition is linked to a US-Philippine deal on the continuing presence of US troops in the Southeast Asian country.