News you may have missed #371
June 7, 2010 Leave a comment
- ASIO tip led to jailing of female Muslim convert in Yemen. Information provided by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation led to the jailing of Australian mother-of-three Shyloh Giddins, 30, who moved to Yemen after converting to Islam. She is suspected of having links to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
- New Operation Condor trial starts in Argentina. Five former intelligence and military officials in Argentina have gone on trial on charges of murdering 65 people. They are accused of kidnapping, torturing, and killing left-wing activists under the country’s military rule between 1976 and 1983.
- Ex-CIA station chief to plead guilty to rape charges. Andrew M. Warren, the CIA’s former Algiers station chief, who is accused of drugging and raping two Algerian women in his official residence, will plead guilty to the charges, according to court papers.