News you may have missed #0073
August 20, 2009 Leave a comment
- Homeland Security denies involvement in domestic spying case. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says that reports on antiwar groups gathered by John Towery, an undercover Army spy in Washington state, did not make their way into DHS intelligence data banks.
- Sudan’s new spy chief speaks to the press. Mohamed Atta Al-Moula Abbas, who replaced Salah Gosh as head of Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Services last week, has spoken publicly for the first time.
- US special operations forces can’t exploit intelligence. US special operations forces are successfully collecting valuable operational intelligence materials in the field, but can’t exploit and disseminate those materials, according to a new report.
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News you may have missed #558
August 4, 2011 by Ian Allen 3 Comments
Amrullah Saleh
►► US government says Iran aids al-Qaeda. The US Treasury Department has accused the Iranian authorities of aiding al-Qaeda, saying Tehran had entered into financial agreements with six people believed to be al-Qaeda operatives in Iran, Kuwait, Qatar and Pakistan. According to Treasury officials, one of the six “is believed to have recently ascended to the No. 2 position in Al Qaeda, reporting directly to the organization’s new leader, Ayman al-Zawahri”.
►►Interview with Afghan spy chief. CNN has an exclusive interview with Amrullah Saleh, the –usually media-shy– former head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate for Security. The interview is essentially one long attack on Pakistan, which Saleh blames for destabilizing Afghanistan, hiding and sheltering al-Qaeda members, and providing funding and arms to the Taliban.
►►Sudan’s spy chief secretly visited France in June. The director of Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS), Mohamed Atta al-Moula Abbas, secretly traveled to Paris last June. He held talks there with Read more of this post
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