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WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest after a technical problem caused widespread flight delays at airports in spots along the East Coast. (All times are local):
9:45 p.m.
As of about 9:30 p.m. general arrival and departure delays were 15 minutes or less, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Flight Delay Information site. The information on the site reports general airport conditions and is not flight-specific.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Five immigrant mothers held in facilities with their children are seeking millions of dollars in damages from the U.S. government for what they contend is psychological and physical harm as a result of being detained, according to court papers filed Monday.
Andrew Free, a Nashville immigration lawyer representing the women, filed tort claims against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging the detained women and their children received inadequate medical care, suffered psychological trauma and in some cases were wrongfully imprisoned.
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CHICAGO — A U.S. Army skydiver who had served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan died Sunday from injuries suffered in a midair collision with another jumper during a stunt at the Chicago Air & Water Show, authorities said.
Corey Hood of Cincinnati, Ohio, who had recently turned ...
Iraq oil feud renewed as cash-strapped Kurds turn backs on deal with Baghdadby Florian Neuhof - Special to The Washington Times
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Since June, the Kurdistan Regional ...
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump proposed a broad crackdown on illegal immigrants Sunday, including tripling the number of deportation officers and building a border wall, as new numbers show illegal crossings on the Southwest border are beginning to swell again.
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CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) - Lots of golf, a family outing on a private beach and a stack of books. President Barack Obama's two-week vacation on Martha's Vineyard is shaping up as a pretty low-key retreat.
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Fighting has escalated in Ukraine six months after a ceasefire was supposed to end hostilities, raising fears that Russian-backed separatists could soon launch another offensive as the West focuses on other global crises.
Ukraine’s military reported 127 attacks on Monday by the pro-Russian rebels, including an assault by400 separatists and tanks about 30 miles north of Mariupol, a strategic government-held port in southeastern Ukraine. Four vehicles belonging to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were also torched last weekend in Donetsk, one of two main separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “expressed grave concern” Thursday about the escalation in rebel attacks in a phone call with Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart. Kerry urged Russia to end its support for the separatists and stick to the Minsk ceasefire signed in mid-February.
The Kremlin has blamed Ukraine for the recent upsurge in attacks and has denied providing substantial support to the rebels, despite mounting evidence that it has sent thousands of Russian soldiers to aid the separatists.
Luke Coffey, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom who studies European security issues, said in an interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing a “very incremental, deliberate, slow” strategy in Ukraine. By taking small pieces of territory over a months-long conflict, he can blunt a concerted response from an international community that has devoted attention to other immediate issues, such as the Iran nuclear deal.
“Putin will do what he knows he can get away with,” Coffey said. “Right now he can get away with a lot.”
Coffey said the latest rebel attacks are likely a response to the European Union Council Summit in June, where foreign ministers agreed to extend economic sanctions on Russia through January 2016.
More than 6,500 people have been killed in Ukraine since rebels began launching attacks against government forces in April 2014. The fighting followed Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in March and the ouster of a pro-Moscow leader from Ukraine’s government.
The separatists’ next target is likely Mariupol, the heavily fortified port that they “desperately need” to connect Crimea with resources from the Russian mainland, Coffey said.
“[Mariupol] will be a tough nut to crack, but it is the major obstacle standing in the way of the separatists,” he said.
Ukraine is not the only former Soviet country where Russia has sought to expand its influence. Russian forces extended the border of South Ossetia—a breakaway territory that the Kremlin seized from Georgia in a 2008 war—by about a half-mile last month, gaining partial control of an international oil pipeline.
Coffey noted that Russia achieved “incremental progress” in Georgia while the United States and EU were concentrating on the conclusion of the Iran nuclear talks—in which Moscow participated—and the bailout referendum in Greece.
Additionally, the Baltic states, all members of NATO with large Russian-speaking minorities, have become increasingly concerned about a Russian incursion in their territories. Russia has launched cyber attacks against the countries in recent months and assumed an aggressive military posture toward their defenses.
NATO aircraft in Europe—which recently reduced its patrols by half—intercepted about 150 Russian bombers and fighters over the Baltic last year.
Analysts say Putin is unlikely to assume a less belligerent approach toward his neighbors in Eastern Europe as Russia’s economy, beset by low oil prices and Western sanctions, enters a recession. The Russian leader, unwilling to implement market-oriented reforms that could loosen his grip on power, has staked his regime’s legitimacy on the patriotic mobilization of his citizens against Western adversaries. That could mean more trouble ahead, Coffey said.
“Vladimir Putin’s reaped huge popularity from his actions in Ukraine,” he said. “Whose to say that he won’t push the envelope even further to boost his popularity even more?”
While U.S. forces have begun training troops in Ukraine’s National Guard, the Obama administration has resisted providing arms that Ukrainian leaders say they desperately need, including small rifles, ammunition, and anti-tank weaponry.
Most Republican presidential candidates for 2016 have said they support supplying lethal arms to Ukraine. However, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and Democratic frontrunner, has yet to state a position. A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to a request for comment.
Gen. Raymond Odierno, the retiring U.S. Army chief of staff, joined other top military leaders on Wednesday in calling Russia the “most dangerous” threat to U.S. security, citing their threats to use nuclear weapons and destabilizing actions in Ukraine.
Increasing the sanctions on Russia and arming Ukraine, Coffey said, could incite a domestic backlash and finally alter Putin’s calculus after previous measures have failed.
“Russians are quite happy to eat feta cheese from the North Caucasus because they can’t eat feta cheese from Greece,” he said. “But when the body bags come home, people are going to start questioning what’s going on.”
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Muslim terrorists are using Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate the U.S. southern border to plan attacks on the United States from within, according to Sun City Cell, a documentary produced in collaboration between Judicial Watch and TheBlaze TV.
“Mexican drug cartels are smuggling foreigners from countries with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town near El Paso and they’re using remote farm roads—rather than interstates—to elude the Border Patrol and other law enforcement barriers,” states Judicial Watch. “Our nation’s unsecured border with Mexico is an existential threat to our nation.”
Chris Farrell, the director of research and investigations at Judicial Watch, says the cartel’s ability to completely control the El Paso region paved the way for a sophisticated narcoterrorism partnership.
“If you want to move something from point A to point B, a contraband item, you need their assistance, there’s a price tag with it, its all about making money,” he says. “There’s a tremendous amount of public corruption. There are cartels and those criminal enterprises do billions and billions of dollars worth of elicit business. Their corruption runs deep and it runs high and so there are people that are afraid frankly for this story to come out.”
Jonathan Gilliam, retired Navy Seal and former FBI special agent, says it’s always been his fear that high-level terrorist leaders would try to get into the United States and plan things here.
“For them to send out orders from overseas is one thing, but to see them come into the United States and actually start helping plan and give orders, that just shows another level of commitment and it shows a drastic shift in their mindset and where there dedication is,” says Gilliam. “I mean you don’t just go embed yourself into where you want to start a war, unless you’re serious about starting a war.”
“It probably means that’s not the first time they’ve gotten people in this way. And it’s really scary when you think about it,” said Gilliam.
Despite the alleged collusion between the Mexican cartels and Muslim terrorists, many tout El Paso, Texas, as a safe city to live.
“The cartel wants El Paso to be the shiny penny where everything is good, don’t look behind the curtain over here,” says an anonymous source in the documentary. “Everything is wonderful. And so, it’s known by the gang members and the criminals in all the area, if you draw attention, you hurt a police officer, you do anything that interferes with their business, they’ll melt you in a bucket of acid and not think twice about it.”
“The law enforcement for the most part is bought and paid for,” the source continues. “Not a lot of people have respect for police. The criminals certainly don’t, but what they have fear of is an organization that doesn’t have Fourth Amendment and doesn’t use jail cells, and that’s the cartel.”
Farrell says the Obama administration has a responsibility in putting an end to the alleged narcoterrorism ring.
“The principal functions of the administration, certainly of a president, is to provide for the security of the country and this is an issue that goes to terrorism, it goes to narcotics trafficking, human smuggling all sorts of areas of security and criminality, preventing crime,” he said. “And so of course it’s the administration’s responsibility.”
A former military intelligence officer specializing in counterintelligence and human intelligence, Farrell spent four years on the investigation and has traveled to El Paso many times to meet with dozens of sources for this story.
He says the investigation will continue.
“This is probably one-third of the whole story about what’s going on in El Paso right now,” he said. “Two-thirds of the story we have not even reported on. There is so much more and our investigation continues.”
“It only gets worse, frankly,” he said. “If people were disturbed or concerned about what they saw in this portion of the story, it is a fragment of the overall story.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russians and Ukrainians are “practically one people” and that Ukraine will survive the difficulties it currently faces when it releases itself from “external control.”
At a meeting with representatives of Crimea’s national associations, President Putin expressed hope that Ukraine and Russia would develop together. He also noted that 3 million Ukrainian citizens reside in Russia, most of whom are males of military age.
Interfax reports:
“I am sure that, despite all of the difficulties of today’s time, the situation in Ukraine will improve, Ukraine will positively develop, it will cease the shameful practices that we see today, namely placing an entire huge European country [Ukraine] under external management, with foreign citizens in key positions in the government and regions,” [Putin] added.According to Putin, this situation is humiliating for the Ukrainian people.“[These practices] will obviously be judged by the Ukrainian people, and Ukraine will recover and will develop positively, together with Russia Ukraine will build its future.”Putin also said that Ukrainians make up the third largest segment of the Russian people, after Russians and Tatars.“Five million Tatars live in Russia, and three million Ukrainians–not counting those who are in Russia on a temporary basis and are Ukrainian citizens. We also have around three million such citizens [Ukrainian citizens in Russia], and the vast majority of them are males of military age,” said the president.
In August 2014, Putin told a youth camp that Russians and Ukrainians are “practically one people.” At that time, violence in Ukraine was at a high and separatist forces were pressing towards Mariupol, as they are again now.
Putin’s disapproval of foreign leaders in the Ukrainian government brings to mind similar concerns regarding the nationality of separatist leaders last year. At the end of July 2014, Alexander Borodai, Igor Strelkov, and Valeriy Bolotov, Russian-born leaders of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic all suddenly “withdrew” from their posts and were replaced with Ukrainian-born leaders.
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A New York man accused of buying combat gear and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group is due in court on charges of attempting to support a terrorist organization.
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Iraqi lawmakers on Monday referred to the public prosecutor a report calling for former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other senior civilian and military officials to be held to account for the fall of Iraq’s second-largest city to the militants of Islamic State last summer.
Hillary Rodham Clinton said that Jeb Bush, in criticizing the Obama administration’s withdrawal of troops from Iraq, had failed to mention his brother’s pledge to withdraw forces by the end of 2011.
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news.
IRAQ and SYRIA
Syrian government forces killed as many as 100 peoplein airstrikes on the Douma area of Damascus yesterday, one of the single deadliest attacks of the country’s four-year civil conflict, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. [Reuters; Washington Post’s Hugh Naylor]
The attacks followed the announcement by the largest local rebel group, the Islam Army, of a new offensive against government forces in a suburb close by, report Ben Hubbard and Maher Samaan. [New York Times]
The UN’s Special Envoy for Syria on Friday condemnedthe shelling of Damascus suburbs, saying that the indiscriminate killing of civilians has “no justification,” in a statement.
The US will pull two Patriot missile-defense systems from southern Turkey, an indication that the Pentagon believes the threat posed by Syrian Army missile attacks has decreased since the Patriots were deployed in 2013. Antimissile systems are said to be needed elsewhere to protect from North Korea and Iran. [New York Times’ Eric Schmitt]
Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki may face criminal charges for his part in the fall of Mosul to ISIS fighters last summer, after a parliamentary report named him among dozens of officials responsible for how easily the city fell. [Washington Post’s Loveday Morris and Mustafa Salim]
Jeb Bush is not “the ideal carrier” of the message blaming President Obama’s withdrawal of troops from Iraq for the rise of the Islamic State, rather than pinning it to George W. Bush’s “reckless invasion of the country,” argues James Traub. [Foreign Policy]
Iraq’s leader reduced his cabinet from 33 members to 22 yesterday, part of major reform being implemented by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in response to protests against government corruption and bad governance. [AP]
Sen Lindsey Graham would commit the full force of the US military, including boots on the ground, to the fight against the Islamic State were he to become president, he said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
GUANTÁNAMO BAY
The pre-trial hearing for suspects in the 9/11 attacks has been canceled, a US military spokesperson said yesterday, another setback to the “complex, slow-moving case” against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators. [Reuters]
Pentagon teams are looking into alternative detention facilities to Guantánamo Bay, including Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and the Charleston, S.C., brig, part of the groundwork of the Obama administration’s closure proposals for the prison. [Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg]
The Obama administration has urged a federal jury not to order the release of a Guantánamo Bay detainee whose eight year hunger strike has left him in a condition described as close to imminent death by his lawyers. [Miami Herald]
Evidence of carcinogens have been found at the war crimes court compound at the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay by a public health team, however it has so far been concluded that the property is safe for occupancy. [Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg]
IRAN
Iran will not be influenced by the US and will continue to oppose American policies in the Middle East despite the nuclear accord reached between Tehran and world powers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. [Reuters]
“Possibly the only Republican” in Congress who could have supported the Iran nuclear agreement has said he won’t; Sen Jeff Flake issued a statement explaining his reasons for doing so. [Politico’s Nahal Toosi]
Presidential candidate Donald Trump said the Iran deal would “lead to a nuclear holocaust” and accused Secretary of State John Kerry, who negotiated the deal, of being “incompetent,” on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” [The Guardian’s Martin Pengelly]
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
The NSA has maintained an “extraordinary, decades-long partnership” with AT&T, a relationship which facilitated the agency’s ability to spy on huge quantities of Internet traffic traveling through the US. Julia Angwin et al report on the revelation arising out of documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, jointly reviewed by the New York Times and ProPublica. [New York Times]
Egypt’s president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has imposed controversial new counterterrorism legislation, establishing special courts and offering additional protection from legal consequences for security officers who have used force. [BBC; Reuters] And Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi will appeal against the death sentence and life-in-prison term upheld against him by an Egyptian court in June. [Al Jazeera]
The Obama administration has given a warning to the Chinese government over the presence of covert Chinese agents operating in the US. US officials say that law enforcement agents are secretly trying to hunt down and repatriate Chinese fugitives, an effort named Operation Fox Hunt. [New York Times’ Mark Mazzetti and Dan Levin]
Fighting in Ukraine escalated between government forces and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine overnight, leaving a number of civilians dead. [Reuters]
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton must answer “all questions” put to her by the House Benghazi Committee during testimony scheduled for Oct. 22, and the hearing will take as long as necessary, chairman of the committee, Trey Gowdy said yesterday. [Politico’s Jennifer Shutt] And Michael B. Mukasey analyzes the “potentially applicable criminal laws in order of severity” relevant to Clinton’s use of a personal email server. [Wall Street Journal]
Fighters allied to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen have extended a series of victories, capturing a province and making progress in Taiz, a strategic southern city which has been under Houthi control since March. [Wall Street Journal’s Mohammed al-Kibsi and Asa Fitch]
The number of US drone flights will increase significantly over the next four years, facilitating access to more intelligence and greater military power aimed at tackling a growing number of global areas of concern, according to a senior defense official. [Wall Street Journal’s Gordon Lubold]
Should the Taliban “be considered a terrorist organization on par” with other groups tracked and killed by US Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC? Sean D. Naylor discusses how the Taliban is now largely ignored by elite American troops. [Foreign Policy]
Ecuador’s acting foreign minister has spoken out over Julian Assange, refusing to allow his country to take responsibility for the lack of progress in the case against the WikiLeaks founder who has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over three years. [The Guardian]
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The White House has warned the Chinese government to stop deploying on American soil intelligence operatives masquerading as tourists, business executives or other false covers.
Title: An Historical And Analytical Bibliography of The Literature of Cryptology
Author: Joseph Stanislaus Galland
Galland, Joseph Stanislaus (1945, 1970). An Historical And Analytical Bibliography of The Literature of Cryptology. New York, AMS Press
LCCN: 75128996
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Date Posted: August 17, 2015
Reviewed by Paul W. Blackstock and Frank L. Schaf[1]
A solid work. An adequate substitute may be found in Kahn, David (1967). The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan (cited in chapter 11, section A), which in effect represents a sort of classified bibliography on communications intelligence.
[1] Blackstock, Paul W. (1978) and Frank L. Schaf, Jr. Intelligence, Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Operations: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., p. 5
The Family Jewels by fredslibrary
Title: The Family Jewels
Author: John Prados
Prados, John (2013). The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press
LCCN: 2013004240
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- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Intelligence service–United States.
- Presidents–United States.
- Executive power–United States.
Date Posted: August 17, 2015
During Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers trial in May 1973, Bill Colby, then the CIA’s director of opertions, was unhappily surprised by a newspaper article that linked the CIA to a break-in at Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in 1971. Colby’s new boss, Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger, was more than distressed by the news and promptly directed all CIA employees to report any incidents they were aware of that fell outside the Agency’s charter. Former employees were also encouraged to contribute.
When indications surfaced that the White House was “pinning the blame for Watergate on the Agency,” a second directive was issued demanding details about the involvement of any CIA employee (or former employee). The result was a 693-page classified compilation, including an annex dealing with Watergate, that itemized dubious activities. It was quickly dubbed the “family jewels.” Although Colby informed the attorney general and Congress of their existence, he inexplicably failed to tell the White House, a decision he would later regret.[1]
In The Family Jewels, historian John Prados has gone beyond the activities described in the “family jewels” report to list what he terms “the broad range of questionable or abusive CIA activities” that have followed the “precedent” from the Watergate era. To set the stage, he reviews the original offenses. Separate chapters discuss domestic surveillance, mail opening, questionable detentions, and assassination operations that received public attention during the Church Committee[2] hearings of 1975. Then, in an extended, intense discussion, Prados addresses the “much more sinister .. .issue of what the CIA did to influence the ways in which it, itself, is portrayed” by the media. This includes spin-doctoring, press releases, “attempts to secure the dismissal of journalists,” and “suppressing the works of CIA’s own employees.” (p. 192) He is particularly exercised about what he deems the CIA’s dilatory declassification practices and the selective treatment of authors “given privileged access to intelligence case files.” (p. 226)
In a chapter devoted to CIA attempts to establish a “cloak of secrecy” around its operations, Prados returns to the subject of CIA authors. He challenges CIA’s handling of several well-known, controversial cases. These include Victor Marchetti[3], Frank Snepp[4], and Philip Agee[5]. Prados’ judgments are open to alternative interpretations, especially the one that questions former KGB general Oleg Kalugin’s well-documented assessment that Agee was a Cuban agent. Prados asserts that “it is more likely the Cubans regarded Philip Agee as a friend.” (p. 246)
A common theme Prados pushes in dealing with these issues is the influence of the CINs Publication Review Board (PRB) which, Prados argues, subjects even books favorable to CIA to unjustified scrutiny. Prados sees the PRB not as protecting security, but as attempting “to avoid accountability.” The result is a “fractured history” that obscures “known facts, embarrassing incidents, and outright illegalities.” (p. 273) This excessive secrecy has obscured more recent putative examples of “family jewels,” the use of “kidnappers and torturers- and with the drone war-executioners.” (p. 274)
The final chapters of The Family Jewels deal with the role of successive administrations in managing intelligence scandals and their investigation. Prados provides suggestions for preventing such problems in the future and puts reform of secrecy and accountability rules at the head of his list of needed changes: the number of secrets created should be reduced and accountability increased. At one point he hints at the need for a “truth commission” that would have total access to all intelligence operations and would work independent of the other branches of government. If Prados recognizes the bureaucratic and legal implications of such an entity, he doesn’t discuss them.
Prados begins his conclusion with the observation that “it is time to dispense with the fiction that the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and their confederates run around like ‘rogue elephants.” (p. 318) Conceding that intelligence agencies operate under presidential control, he concludes that this control is too often inadequate. Thus, he suggests, unless “the Central Intelligence Agency’s fortress of secrecy” is reformed, the discovery of more family jewels is likely. (p. 330)
The Family Jewels is a critical examination of disturbing historical and contemporary events. Whether Prados’ extension of the original meaning of the phrase is justified remains to be seen. The patterns he develops are subjectively, not objectively linked. Likewise, his suggestion that more openness as “a tool of accountability” contributes to a solution without diminished operational effectiveness is not persuasive. Obeying the law and not repeating past mistakes are more promising alternatives.
[1] Colby, William E. (1978) and Peter Forbath. Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 19·20, 337·39; Emery, Fred (1994). Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon. New York: Times Books [LCCN: 93044736], pp. 58·68; Nicholas Dujmovic (ed.), “Oral History: Reflections of DCI Colby and Helms on the CIA’s ‘Time of Troubles’,” Studies in Intelligence [51, 3 (Extracts-September 2007)].
[2] Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (1976). Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to the Intelligence Activities United States Senate, Hearings Before the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities of U.S. Senate. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. See http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/churchcommittee.html.
[3] Marchetti, Victor (1990) and John D. Marks. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. New York: Knopf
[4] Snepp, Frank (1978). Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End Told By The CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst In Vietnam. New York: Vintage Books
[5] Agee, Phillip (1975). Inside the Company: A CIA Diary. New York: Stonehill
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Iraq's parliament on Monday referred to the judiciary a report calling for the trial of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and dozens of other top officials in connection with the fall of Mosul to Islamic State last year. Lawmaker Mohamed al-Karbouli said the vote in parliament was taken by a show of hands and passed by a majority. He said the report was now due to go to the public prosecutor and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has the right to refer officers for court martial.
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Iran's nuclear deal with world powers will not open the Islamic Republic to political or economic influence from the United States, and could still be blocked by either country, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday."We blocked this path and will definitely block it in the future. We won't allow American political, economic or cultural influence in Iran." DEBKA Weekly 627 first disclosed Khamenei’s imposition of an anti-US boycott after the signing of a nuclear deal with the world powers. The article was published on July 30 under the heading: “Khamenei Shuts US Firms out of Iran’s Post-Sanctions Economy.”
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The US and its allies have carried out 22 air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in the past 24 hours, it has emerged.
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Bolivia’s area used to cultivate coca fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2014, a United Nations agency said, as the government efforts to reduce the raw material used to make cocaine appears to be paying off.
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Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian after stabbing an Israeli trooper near the West Bank city of Nablus. . Report by Asana Greenstreet.
Seven people have died after being gored by bulls since July during Spain's summer fiestas. Report by Asana Greenstreet.
The violence is igniting a fresh debate about racism and intolerance in the country where Nazis once ruled.
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After Wristwatch Scandal, Putin’s Spokesman Grilled Over Luxury Yacht by support@pangea-cms.com (Carl Schreck)
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov is embroiled in yet another controversy over his expensive tastes.
At least nine people die in heavy artillery exchanges between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Short, sharp earthquake jolts San Francisco Bay Areaby By KRISTIN J. BENDER
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A short, sharp earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday, breaking plates and cracking plaster without prompting reports of injuries or major damage....
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Ex-Kremlin Internet 'Troll' Wins Suit Against Ex-Employer
New York Times ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — A Russian court on Monday awarded symbolic damages of one ruble ($0.01) to a former "Kremlin troll" who sued her ex-employer and demanded closure of what she describes as a "factory" that has been churning out Internet ... Kyiv, Moscow Trade Blame for Escalation in E. UkraineVoice of America Putin slams 'external control' over Ukraine on Crimea visit The Daily Star Posted by ImaduddinBusiness Recorder (press release) (blog) The Moscow Times (registration) -Bloomberg all 163 news articles » |
Ex-Kremlin Internet 'troll' wins damages from Putin propaganda 'factory'
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that Iran would remain vigilant in guarding against influences from the United States, a message at odds with other officials.
Campaign foes? For Clinton and Biden, a long relationship marked by friendship, competition
The US government unveils a $5m (£3.2m) initiative to combat the use and trafficking of heroin amid a rising number of cases, especially in the north-east.
Big wildfire threatens Washington state resort town, destroys warehouse full of apples
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French, Moroccan police nab suspect wanted for $1.9 million luxury watch heist
Feds allow Shell to drill for oil in Arctic Ocean off Alaska for first time in 20-plus years
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