Cia
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CIA's interrogations were brutal post 9/11, says US Senate report
World | Dec 10, 2014, 09:53 AM ISTWashington: The CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era were far more brutal than previously acknowledged and delivered no “ticking time bomb” information that prevented an attack, a long-delayed US Senate report
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Hackers warn against 'The Interview' release
Hollywood | Dec 10, 2014, 07:06 AM ISTLos Angeles: A group of activists calling themselves Guardians of Peace have warned movie executives at Sony to scrap plans to release Seth Rogen's new comedy “The Interview”.The organisation is claiming responsibility for the hack
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Report clears Obama administration on Benghazi attack
World | Nov 22, 2014, 12:03 PM ISTWashington: A two-year Congressional probe into an attack on a US diplomatic post in Libya's Benghazi city has cleared the Obama administration of accusations of mishandling its response, media reports said Saturday.The report released Friday
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CIA triples estimate of Islamic State strength
World | Sep 12, 2014, 11:26 AM ISTWashington: The Islamic State, the dreaded terrorist group that has gained control over a large part of Iraq and Syria, has up to 31,500 fighters - three times as many as previously feared, according to
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CIA joins Facebook, Twitter
Jun 07, 2014, 07:24 PM ISTWashington: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), one of the top intelligence-gathering agencies of the US government, has sent out its first tweet on its official Twitter page.It quickly confirmed in a press release Friday that
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Terror link not ruled out in missing Malaysian jetliner mystery: CIA
World | Mar 12, 2014, 09:43 AM ISTWashington: The possibility of a terror link cannot be ruled out yet in the " mystery" of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, John Brennan, director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), said Tuesday.The CIA
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Pakistan: lawyer of doctor who helped CIA find bin laden has fled
World | Dec 11, 2013, 11:23 PM ISTPeshawar: The main lawyer for a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden fled Pakistan on Wednesday after receiving death threats from militants, his colleagues said.The lawyer had represented Dr.
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CIA papers show Leon Panetta spilled Osama bin Laden secrets
World | Dec 11, 2013, 10:03 AM ISTWashington: Newly declassified documents show that former CIA director Leon Panetta revealed secret information to "Zero Dark Thirty" scriptwriter Mark Boal, who was allowed to attend Panetta's speech at CIA headquarters marking the raid that
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Pak doctor who helped trace Osama bin Laden to face fresh trial
World | Aug 29, 2013, 06:54 PM ISTIslamabad: The 33-year jail term given to Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA Track Osama Bin Laden, was today overturned by an official who ordered a fresh trial.Frontier Crimes Regulation Commissioner Sahibzada
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Know more about Edward Snowden controversy
World | Jul 02, 2013, 07:22 AM ISTNew Delhi: Edward Snowden who is giving a slip to USA was born to an officer of US Coast Guard on June 21, 1983. He pursued his computing career but left mid way. Then he worked
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CIA plotted to kill terrorist Awlaki by arranging bride
World | Oct 16, 2012, 04:14 PM ISTWashington, Oct 16: The CIA had paid an Al Qaeda spy to help find a bride for American-born terrorist Anwar al Awlaki in a plot to kill him, a media report said.Morten Storm, a Danish
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China arrests suspected CIA agent
World | Jun 02, 2012, 10:16 PM ISTWashington, Jun 2: Chinese authorities have arrested a suspected CIA agent in China who apparently worked in the Ministry of State Security, country's main intelligence agency, a media report today said.However the US has refused
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US drone kills four militants in Pakistan
World | Jun 02, 2012, 02:12 PM ISTIslamabad, Jun 2: A US drone targeted a vehicle in the south Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan today, killing four militants in the latest in a string of attacks by the CIA-operated spy planes.The drone
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US not willing to buy Pak's new story on Afridi
World | May 31, 2012, 07:10 AM ISTWashington, May 31 :Seeking a clarification from Pakistan, the US on wednesday said that it did not believe in the “story” that a Pakistani doctor, who helped CIA track Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to
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Pak doctor's prosecution 'unjust and unwarranted',says Clinton
World | May 25, 2012, 06:37 AM ISTWashington, May 25 : The 33-year jail term to a Pakistani doctor who helped CIA in finding Osama bin Laden has created outrage in the US with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling it “unjust
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US Senators ask Pakistan to pardon, release Afridi
World | May 24, 2012, 08:28 AM ISTWashington, May 24 : Shocked over Pakistan sentencing a doctor, who helped the CIA to find al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, two top American Senators on Wednesday asked the authorities there to pardon and
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Doctor Who Led CIA To Bin Laden Is Jailed For 33 Years For Treason
World | May 24, 2012, 08:43 AM ISTIslamabad, May 24: A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state, officials said, a verdict that is
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Pak doctor gets 33 years for helping CIA find Osama
World | May 23, 2012, 09:25 PM ISTIslamabad, May 23: A Pakistani doctor who ran a fake vaccination campaign for the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden was today sentenced to 33 years of rigorous imprisonment for committing treason under harsh
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US Ambassador Cameron Munter steps down early
World | May 09, 2012, 02:22 PM ISTIslamabad, May 9 :The growing influence of the CIA and Pentagon in shaping relations with Pakistan was a key reason behind US Ambassador Cameron Munter's decision to quit his post, the media here claimed today.Munter,
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If you take four wives, you live like a groom, said Osama bin Laden
World | Apr 30, 2012, 12:37 PM ISTNew York, April 30: American newsmagazine TIME has published for the first time the hand-written memo written by CIA director Leon Panetta authorizing the attack on the Abbottabad compound, where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin