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CIA Spent $1 Million Training Hit Squads to Kill Al Qaeda Leaders

Over the past eight years, the CIA is reported to have spent $1 million on a “highly classified program” to train elite hit squads intended to target and kill Al Qaeda leaders. CIA Director Leon Panetta canceled the..

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China learns from Iran: shuts down Cell Phone service & Twitter

China just delivered a stunning, real-world demonstration of the changes rocking — and transforming — modern journalism. When deadly riots broke out in the western province of Xinjiang last week, the Chinese government sprang into message control mode

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China learns from Iran: shuts down Cell Phone service & Twitter

House lays groundwork for CIA probe

WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to target al-Qaida leaders, U.S. congressional officials said Tuesday

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AP sources: Cheney told CIA not to discuss program (AP)

AP – Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

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Relatives go to Ill. cemetery looking for answers (AP)

AP – A constant stream of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots.

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