13 December 2011 Last updated at 03:36 GMT Hassan Nasrallah has referred to the US embassy in Beirut as a den of spies The Shia Islamist group Hezbollah has exposed purported CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon. Hezbollah broadcast what it said were the names of the American spies on a Lebanese television station, al-Manar, [...]
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December 13, 2011
December 10, 2011
Pakistani lawmaker: Air defense weapons may be deployed to Afghan border after NATO airstrikes
December 10, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Pakistani lawmaker: Air defense weapons may be deployed to Afghan border after NATO airstrikes 09 Dec 2011 Pakistan may deploy air defense weapons to the Afghan border to prevent future NATO airstrikes such as the ones last month that the Pakistani military claims were pre-planned and that killed 24 [...]
December 8, 2011
US confirms downed drone spied on Iran
December 7, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis US confirms downed drone spied on Iran 06 Dec 2011 US officials have confirmed that the reconnaissance drone which was downed by Iran’s Army in the eastern part of the country was on a CIA recon mission. On Sunday, December 4, the Iranian Army’s electronic warfare unit downed a [...]
December 8, 2011
CIA drone ‘part of fleet spying on Iran’
December 8, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis CIA drone ‘part of fleet spying on Iran’ 08 Dec 2011 United States officials say a drone that crashed inside Iran over the weekend was one of a fleet of stealth aircraft that have spied on Iran for years from a United States air base in Afghanistan. They say [...]
December 8, 2011
The US national security smokescreen | Nancy Goldstein
Ben Wizner, the litigation director for the ACLU’s national security project, cheerfully admits that its April 2011 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for 23 of the very same US State Department diplomatic cables we all read this time last year, when WikiLeaks released them to five newspapers including the Guardian, was “cheeky” – a way [...]
December 5, 2011
US forced to leave Pakistan base as relations reach new low after NATO attack
December 5, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis US forced to leave Pakistan base as relations reach new low after NATO attack that killed 24 04 Dec 2011 US military personnel have begun leaving Shamsi air base in Pakistan, after a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border plunged U.S.-Pakistani relations to an [...]
December 2, 2011
December 2, 2011
Obama lawyers: Citizens targeted if at war with US
December 2, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Obama lawyers: Citizens targeted if at war with US 01 Nov 2011 U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets when they take up arms with ‘al-Qaida,’ top national security lawyers in the Obama regime said Thursday. The lawyers were asked at a national security conference about the CIA killing of [...]
November 28, 2011
US and Pakistan: deadliest of friends | Editorial
How bad can a relationship between two military allies get? If this year’s tally of incidents is anything to go by, Pakistan‘s rage against the American military machine can get a lot worse. First came the affair over Raymond Davis, the CIA agent who shot dead two men who had pulled up in front of [...]
November 25, 2011
Iran ‘arrests 12 CIA agents’
Iran has arrested 12 people it claims were working undercover for the CIA inside the Islamic republic, further raising tensions in its already strained relationship with the US. On Wednesday, the Irna state news agency quoted a senior Iranian official as saying that the spies it claimed to have arrested had been gathering intelligence from [...]
November 22, 2011
CIA intelligence fiasco in Lebanon
November 21, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis CIA intelligence fiasco in Lebanon 21 Nov 2011 Hezbollah has dealt a heavy blow to CIA operations in Lebanon, forcing the intelligence agency to curtail its espionage activities in the country, US officials say. According to current and former US officials, CIA operations in Lebanon have been badly damaged [...]
November 14, 2011
CIA assassination and bombing operations underway in Iran
November 14, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis CIA assassination and bombing operations underway in Iran –Explosions and assasinations at Iran nuke base pinned to Israel may have been CIA 14 Nov 2011 Iranian officials revealed that one of the 17 men killed in a huge explosion at a munitions depot was a key Revolutionary Guard commander [...]
November 10, 2011
MPs in freedom of information call for release of files on secret rendition
Intelligence documents showing how British officials were involved in the secret rendition of UK residents to Guantánamo Bay and other jails – where they say they were abused and tortured – must be disclosed, an information tribunal was told on Thursday. “Government statements denying UK involvement in rendition have been shown to be false by [...]