Intelligence failure?: Moscow shooting poses awkward questions for Russia’s intelligence agencies
Reuters correspondents report in the aftermath of last week’s mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall…
Lithuania broke human rights laws in case tied to CIA detention program, European court rules
Washington DC, US Reuters Lithuania broke European human rights laws by allowing the CIA to subject an alleged 9/11 suspect to “inhuman treatment” in a secret interrogation centre in the Baltic country, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the court said Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi […]
Updated: Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri killed in US drone strike in downtown Kabul
Updated: 6:55pm (AEST)Washington DC, USReuters The United States killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a “precision” strike in the centre of Kabul, the Afghanistan capital, President Joe Biden said, the biggest blow to the militant group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who had a $US25 million […]
Your own CIA jail? Lithuania to sell secret US ‘rendition’ site
Antaviliai, LithuaniaReuters A huge steel barn outside Lithuania’s capital, whose long corridor and windowless rooms with carpets and soundproof doors once served as a CIA detention centre, will soon go on sale. Washington’s so-called “rendition program”, under which suspected Islamist militants from conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq were spirited to jails outside US jurisdiction, remains shrouded […]
STRANGESIGHTS: WEIRD RESEARCH PROJECTS GET REWARDED; ANIMALS AS SECRET AGENTS?; AND, THE THEFT OF THE GOLDEN TOILET
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
STRANGESIGHTS: CIA JOINS INSTAGRAM WITH A RIDDLE; YETI LEAVES A TRAIL?; AND, ‘HECKBOY’ AND A SCOHOL…
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
Church retreat centre in Iran confiscated for ‘being funded by CIA’
World Watch Monitor The Iranian government has assumed control of a church-owned retreat centre, accusing the church of being funded by the US government and the CIA. The government said the retreat centre in Karaj, a city just west of Tehran, belonged to an organisation “funded by the US through the CIA spy agency to […]