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JOHN MALKOVICH will star in new spy thriller RED, after JOHN C. REILLY dropped out of the upcoming movie.
The Dangerous Liaisons star will join a stellar cast including Dame Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis in the film, based on the comic book series of the same name.
The movie, which is set [...]
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Cairo, Jan 9 (DPA) The death of a Pakistani Taliban chief would be avenged both ‘inside and outside the US’, according to the Al Qaeda bomber who killed seven officers of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a Dec 30 attack in Afghanistan.
In an alleged video message aired Saturday on the Doha-based al-Jazeera news [...]
Washington, Jan.1 (ANI): The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) base attacked by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan this week was at the heart of a covert program overseeing strikes by the agency’s remote-controlled aircraft along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, officials familiar with the installation said Thursday.
The blast early Wednesday evening [...]
Washington, Jan.1 (ANI): The US Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) is reported to be expanding its role in Afghanistan, and also playing a greater role in quasi-military operations elsewhere.
According to the New York Times, the CIA is using drone aircraft to launch a steady barrage of missile strikes in Pakistan and sending more operatives to Yemen [...]
Washington, Jan 1 (DPA) US President Barack Obama offered his condolences Thursday after seven employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were killed and six injured in a suicide attack Wednesday on a military base in eastern Afghanistan.
In a letter to CIA employees, Obama called those killed ‘brave Americans (who) were part of a long [...]
Washington, Dec 31 (IANS) American spy agencies failed to combine intercepts of conversations among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a coming terrorist attack with other clues, according to the New York Times.
The exercise could have disrupted the attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day, the influential [...]
Washington, Dec 31 (DPA) At least eight US civilians were killed in an attack on a military base in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, the US State Department said.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the attack took place Wednesday on a US military base near the Pakistani border.
In Washington, the dead and at least eight [...]
Washington, Dec. 30 (ANI): The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had received a lead on a person dubbed “The Nigerian” suspected for meeting “terrorist elements” in Yemen as early as August 2009, but it failed to establish a link when Umar [...]
Washington, Dec. 28 (ANI): The United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front, against Al Qaeda in Yemen.
According to the New York Times, the Central Intelligence Agency sent many field operatives with counter-terrorism experience to that country last year.
Simultaneously, the secretive Special Operations commandos have [...]
Washington, Dec. 23 (ANI): A a Lithuanian parliamentary committee has ordered a probe into allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency ran a secret prison in Lithuania where al-Qaeda suspects may have been held.
Lithuania [...]
Islamabad, Dec 17 (DPA) At least 17 people were killed and several more injured Thursday in multiple US drone attacks in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border, officials said.
An intelligence official said 10 missiles fired from five US unmanned aircraft hit two compounds in Angoshga, some 25 km west of the [...]
Washington, Dec 17 (ANI): The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday has rebuffed all reports claiming Pakistani-origin US national David Coleman Headley; accused in the 26/11 terror attacks of being a CIA agent.
CIA spokesperson Marie E Harf denied that Headley had connections with the CIA, when posed questions related to Headley’s links with the CIA.
“I [...]
Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has denied that Pakistan-born US national David Coleman Headley, a key suspect in the 26/11 terror attacks, was its agent at any point of time.
‘I can’t comment on an ongoing investigation, but any suggestion that this individual worked for the CIA is flat wrong,’ said CIA [...]
Kolkata, Dec 15 (IANS) The West Bengal government Tuesday held a high-level meeting to review the stepped up security arrangements across the state in view of a central intelligence agency’s inputs that Taliban-trained terrorists could target vital installations in the city.
Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty held talks with state Director General of Police Bhupinder Singh [...]
Kolkata, Dec 14 (IANS) The West Bengal government Monday said it has made adequate security arrangements across the state acting on a central intelligence agency’s input that a few Taliban-trained militants have sneaked into the country and might launch attacks on vital installations.
‘The state director general of police and the Kolkata Police commissioners have received [...]
Washington, Dec. 14 (ANI): The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has reportedly been asked to launch drone strikes beyond Pakistan’s tribal region.
According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, senior Obama administration officials have told the CIA to target the city [...]
Washington, Dec.12 (ANI): The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has discontinued the services of private security services agency, Blackwater, which purportedly assisted the intelligence agency in its covert drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
According to intelligence officials, the contract with the company, now known as Xe Services, was terminated by CIA Director, Leon Panetta, earlier this [...]
Lahore, Dec.12 (ANI): In a stunning revelation, US private security service agency, Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, has claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had asked the agency to kill Pakistani nuclear scientist, Dr. A Q Khan.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Prince said the CIA had asked the Blackwater to eliminate Dr. Khan, however, [...]
Washington, Dec. 11 (ANI): Agents from America’s private security firm, Blackwater Worldwide, directly collaborated with CIA to carry out secret raids on suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the transporting of detainees, former company employees and intelligence officials have revealed.
Several former Blackwater guards said [...]
London, Dec.10 (ANI): Distressing accounts of torture, rape and brutal violence meted out to opposition supporters, before during and after the disputed June presidential elections in Iran, are detailed in a damning report from Amnesty International, reports The Independent.
Amnesty says that human rights violations in the country are as bad as at any time [...]
Washington, Dec. 7 (ANI): US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said that President Obama is sending extra troops to Afghanistan in order to bring the Taliban to the negotiation table, but clarified that America won’t negotiate with Taliban leaders in Pakistan, as “it’s up to the Pakistani military to deal with this problem.”
“I think that [...]
New Delhi, Dec.1 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been entrusted with the task of probing the case related to 26/11 Lashkar suspects David Coleman Headley and Tawahhur Hussain Rana, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram revealed to the media while presenting his end of the month report for [...]
New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): In a first instance of its kind, the United State Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified and released records that estimate that most Indians believe that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was alive in Siberia and waiting to make a big come back.
“It is now currently rumoured in the Delhi area [...]
London, Nov. 29 (ANI): Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed alMegrahi was implicated in the purchase and development of chemical weapons by Libya, the US has claimed.
According to documents produced by the US State Department, Megrahi sought to buy 1,000 letter [...]
Port of Spain, Nov.29 (ANI): India’s National Security Adviser M K Narayanan has said that New Delhi has no plans to interrogate either David Coleman Headley, an alleged Lashkar operative based in the United States of Pakistani origin, or his associate, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, in connection [...]
Geneva, Nov.21 (ANI): The United States has agreed to give India crucial information regarding the involvement of one accomplice of terror suspects Tahawwur Hussain Rana and David Coleman Headley in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case or another India-related terror plot. The accomplice [...]
New Delhi, Nov. 21 (ANI): Chief of the America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Leon Panetta, met National Security Advisor M K Narayanan here on Saturday.
Panetta, who arrived here late last night after his visit to Pakistan, met for nearly [...]
Islamabad, Nov.21 (ANI): US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, who arrived here on Friday on an unannounced visit, has said that it is important that Pakistan expands its military operations in the Tribal areas in order to target all the terror safe havens located inside the country’s geographical boundaries.
According to sources, Panetta, during [...]
Islamabad, Nov.21 (ANI): Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, during his meeting with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, has reportedly presented evidence regarding India’s hand in fanning terrorism in Balochistan and Waziristan.
Sources privy to the meeting said differences cropped-up between the two intelligence chief’s after General Pasha criticised the US for its [...]
Islamabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Friday urged the US to fully share the contours of its road map on Afghanistan and incorporate Islamabad’s input in it.
He made the remarks while speaking to US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Leon E. Panetta, who was on a two-day unscheduled visit here that [...]
