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Did Torture Really Help US Find Al Qaeda Chief Hambali?
Hailed as a major success in the US "war on terror," the capture of Indonesian cleric Hambali if often touted by the US intelligence community as evidence that harsh interrogation produces results.
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CIA's 'harsh interrogations' exceeded legal authority: report
A classified U.S. Senate report found that the CIA's legal justification for the use of harsh interrogation techniques that critics say amount to torture was based on faulty legal reasoning, McClatchy news service reported on Thursday.
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Osama bin Laden's son-in-law says he was victim of US 'rendition'
A former spokesman for Al Qaeda says he was the subject of an extrajudicial transfer to US custody via three Middle Eastern countries this year, an allegation that suggests President Barack Obama's administration is still carrying out controversial "rendition" operations.
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Iran's unlikely Al Qaeda ties: fluid, murky and deteriorating
When Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri spoke in an audio message broadcast to supporters earlier this month, he had harsh words for Iran. Its true face, he said, had been unmasked by its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against fighters loyal to Al Qaeda.
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Bush says he 'wasn't overjoyed' by Osama news
George W. Bush says he was "not overjoyed" when President Barack Obama told him Osama bin Laden was dead because the campaign to track down the al-Qaida leader was done not "out of hatred, but to exact judgment."The former president who initiated the hunt for bin Laden after 9/11 made his first candid public comments on bin Laden's killing Wednesda...
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US, Pak agreed on Osama mission in secret deal 10 yrs ago: Report
In a secret deal struck a decade ago, the US and Pakistan agreed that Washington will carry out a unilateral operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil if he was found there following which Islamabad would vociferously protest the incursion, a media report said today. The then military leader Gen Pervez Musharraf and then US President Geor...
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In 2007, the US just missed getting Osama
Before Sunday, the last time an American president thought he had Osama bin Laden in his sights was the late summer of 2007. Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders, terrorist volunteers and insurgent foot soldiers would be meeting in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, a stream of intelligence reports showed. And there were hints that Bin Laden himself m...
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No chance of spot fixing: Stuart Clark
George Bush and Osama bin Laden having dinner with Elvis Presley is a greater possibility than Australian cricketers being involved in spot-fixing, says pacer Stuart Clark, who feels the speculation was an attempt by the Indian media to sabotage their World Cup campaign.
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Did Torture Really Help US Find Al Qaeda Chief Hambali?
Hailed as a major success in the US "war on terror," the capture of Indonesian cleric Hambali if often touted by the US intelligence community as evidence that harsh interrogation produces results.
-
CIA's 'harsh interrogations' exceeded legal authority: report
A classified U.S. Senate report found that the CIA's legal justification for the use of harsh interrogation techniques that critics say amount to torture was based on faulty legal reasoning, McClatchy news service reported on Thursday.
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Osama bin Laden's son-in-law says he was victim of US 'rendition'
A former spokesman for Al Qaeda says he was the subject of an extrajudicial transfer to US custody via three Middle Eastern countries this year, an allegation that suggests President Barack Obama's administration is still carrying out controversial "rendition" operations.
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Iran's unlikely Al Qaeda ties: fluid, murky and deteriorating
When Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri spoke in an audio message broadcast to supporters earlier this month, he had harsh words for Iran. Its true face, he said, had been unmasked by its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against fighters loyal to Al Qaeda.
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Bush says he 'wasn't overjoyed' by Osama news
George W. Bush says he was "not overjoyed" when President Barack Obama told him Osama bin Laden was dead because the campaign to track down the al-Qaida leader was done not "out of hatred, but to exact judgment."The former president who initiated the hunt for bin Laden after 9/11 made his first candid public comments on bin Laden's killing Wednesda...
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US, Pak agreed on Osama mission in secret deal 10 yrs ago: Report
In a secret deal struck a decade ago, the US and Pakistan agreed that Washington will carry out a unilateral operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil if he was found there following which Islamabad would vociferously protest the incursion, a media report said today. The then military leader Gen Pervez Musharraf and then US President Geor...
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In 2007, the US just missed getting Osama
Before Sunday, the last time an American president thought he had Osama bin Laden in his sights was the late summer of 2007. Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders, terrorist volunteers and insurgent foot soldiers would be meeting in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, a stream of intelligence reports showed. And there were hints that Bin Laden himself m...
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No chance of spot fixing: Stuart Clark
George Bush and Osama bin Laden having dinner with Elvis Presley is a greater possibility than Australian cricketers being involved in spot-fixing, says pacer Stuart Clark, who feels the speculation was an attempt by the Indian media to sabotage their World Cup campaign.
