Both the al-Qaeda and the Taliban are feeding on the current dissatisfaction with the war in Afghanistan. It seems that people are more dismayed about what is going on with the war than the fact that Hamid Karzai rigged the elections in his favor.
The terror groups have developed ‘sophisticated foreign-recruiting networks’ resulting in an increasing [...]

Tactical failures such as missing the target and not rounding up the enemy are generally considered “failure of intelligence.” So, the US military operations in Afghanistan, frustrated that the Taliban are even actually winning the war, want to augment the usual military espionage with CIA covert operations. Thus, the CIA will expand its undercover presence [...]

A newly-published scientific research paper gives the conclusion that the harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration may have ‘damaged the brains of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought.’
The harsh techniques utilized on the suspects damaged their facility for recall, making [...]

Starting from a secret department in North Carolina, the company before known like Blackwater it assumed a more important paper in the program of counter-terrorism of Washington: the use of airplanes operated by remote control to kill leaders of Al Qaeda, according to government’s authorities and current and old employees of the company.
The operations of [...]

Since the declaration of War on Terror by the United States, its premier intelligence agency CIA or the Central Intelligence Agency had been planning various assassination pots to take out the Al Qaeda leadership. In a recent report released by the current an former intelligence officials, it has been confirmed that, CIA planned to send [...]

There have been several news in the recent months about US drone attacks against Muslim extremists in Pakistan that have incurred civilian casualties. These attacks, however, have been successful in neutralizing the radicals, as the Pakistani army and its allies have taken back the Swat valley from the Taliban resistance. Fighting has now moved to [...]

There is now such a thing as the Bush administration’s Torture 13. They belong to the nefarious circle by virtue of authorizing torture to be systematically employed in the name of information gathering post-9/11 for the sake of intelligence. They carried out the strategy, as well as legally justified it. All these point to the [...]

Bagram’s ‘King of Torture’ says, “I opened up Abu Ghraib.” He was also sometimes called ‘Monster.’ Damien Corsetti, in charge of interrogation operations, gives a first-person testimony of torture. In simple parlance, his job was to torture some detainees in those CIA secret prisons.
Bagram is a US military base in Afghanistan that is long suspected [...]

US President Barack Obama has allowed the publication of reports on the practices of the CIA. Some of these reports tell of torture that is illegal as per the treaty agreements of the Geneva Conventions, among other international legal limitations. He says those who actually conducted the torture will not be prosecuted, but those who [...]

The Obama administration will not act against the CIA agents who interrogated suspected terrorists, but it could take legal proceedings against members of the previous administration who provided the legal argument to defend the methods of torture. Answering questions from reporters at the White House, Obama on Tuesday did not rule out future charges against [...]