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Ex-CIA analyst recounts torture in secret Thai prison
Reuters, Published on 20/04/2022
» WASHINGTON: In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him talk.
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Dirty underwear and contested airspace: the long hunt for Baghdadi
AFP, Published on 30/10/2019
» WASHINGTON: The operation to kill the Islamic State group's leader took months of intelligence work, required the snatching of his underwear and ended when one of the world's most sought-after men blew himself up.
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Nine held in Nairobi hotel attack
Published on 18/01/2019
» NAIROBI: Kenyan detectives have arrested nine suspects in connection with a Somali militant attack on a Thai-managed hotel and office complex that killed 21 people, police said on Friday, indicating the search for possible accomplices in the raid is gathering pace.
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Thai hotel staff head home after surviving Nairobi terrorism
Post Reporters, Published on 17/01/2019
» Four employees of the Dusit International hotel chain in Kenya are on their way back to Thailand, following Tuesday's terrorist attack at the Nairobi DusitD2 hotel.
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Terrorists attack Dusit hotel in Nairobi
AFP, Published on 16/01/2019
» NAIROBI: A huge blast followed by a gun battle rocked the DusitD2 hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab Islamist group.
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Cables detail CIA waterboarding at its secret Thailand prison
New York Times, Published on 10/08/2018
» WASHINGTON: In late November 2002, CIA interrogators at a secret prison in Thailand warned a Qaeda suspect that he had to "suffer the consequences of his deception".
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Senators want CIA to lift veil on Haspel's Thai black site past
Associated Press, Published on 17/03/2018
» WASHINGTON: Gina Haspel's long spy career is so shrouded in mystery that senators want documents declassified so they can decide if her role at a CIA black site should prevent her from directing the agency.
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New CIA chief ran Thailand's secret waterboarding site
Published on 14/03/2018
» Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA clandestine officer picked by President Donald Trump on Tuesday to head the Central Intelligence Agency, is a controversial figure, backed by many in the US intelligence community but regarded warily by some in Congress for her involvement in the agency's black-site detention facilities.
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Egyptian forces go after mosque attackers
Published on 25/11/2017
» CAIRO: Egypt's military said on Saturday that it had carried out air strikes and raids overnight against the militants it held responsible for killing more than 300 worshippers at a mosque in North Sinai.
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The art of laughter and avenging
Spectrum, Published on 08/10/2017
» 'We won't force you to do something you don't want to. We're terrorists, not Indian parents." This is a standout joke in the hit YouTube comedic sketch "I want to quit Isis."
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