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Islamic State 'Beatles' member jailed for life by US court
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» ALEXANDRIA (UNITED STATES) - A member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court on Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.
Former hostages unmask Islamic State 'Beatle' at trial
AFP, Published on 10/04/2022
» ALEXANDRIA, US: Former hostages taking the witness stand at the trial of their alleged Islamic State group captor have described their brutal treatment in chilling detail.
Trial of IS 'Beatle' begins as defence claims mistaken identity
AFP, Published on 31/03/2022
» ALEXANDRIA, United States: The trial of an Islamic State fighter accused of belonging to a notorious kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" began in earnest Wednesday near Washington, with his defense claiming he had been mistakenly identified.
CIA psychologist defends torture before Guantanamo court
AFP, Published on 23/01/2020
» WASHINGTON - A psychologist who helped design the CIA's "war on terror" torture program after the September 11, 2001 attacks defended the program this week before its victims at the US military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.
Trial date set for 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo: report
AFP, Published on 31/08/2019
» WASHINGTON - Alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp will finally go on trial in 2021, almost two decades after the devastating Al-Qaeda attack, the New York Times reported Friday.
Ingenious gadgets, real-world quandaries at Washington's all-new Spy Museum
AFP, Published on 08/05/2019
» WASHINGTON: A lipstick pistol, a button-hole camera, a lethal umbrella and an authentic waterboarding table: the espionage world's heroic, ingenious and sordid sides are all on show in Washington's all-new, much-expanded International Spy Museum.
Lithuania, Romania complicit in secret CIA prisons: European court
AFP, Published on 31/05/2018
» STRASBOURG (FRANCE) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Lithuania and Romania were complicit in a controversial CIA programme to hold suspects caught after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in secret detention centres on their territories.
California couple waterboarded kids, authorities say
AFP, Published on 17/05/2018
» LOS ANGELES - Ten children found living in squalid conditions in a California home were waterboarded, shot at with crossbows and had scalding water poured over them by their mother and her partner, authorities said Wednesday.
WH aide says about McCain, 'he's dying anyway': report
AFP, Published on 11/05/2018
» WASHINGTON - A White House aide said the opposition of Senator John McCain, 81 and battling brain cancer, to the nominee for CIA director does not matter because "he's dying anyway," US media reported.
CIA nominee Haspel faces grilling over torture record
AFP, Published on 09/05/2018
» WASHINGTON - Facing tough opposition over her own record, CIA director nominee Gina Haspel will pledge Wednesday to never revive the interrogation program that saw Al-Qaeda detainees tortured.