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...policy now. On June 30, the Administration imposed unilateral U.S. sanctions on two North Korean companies engaged in proliferation - sanctions that will "augment efforts to curtail the North Korean regime's ability to develop and sell WMD and missiles," says Bruce Klingner, former North Korea analyst at the CIA, now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. One of the firms sanctioned, called Hong Kong Electronics and located on Kish Island, Iran, is alleged to have transferred millions of dollars of proliferation-related funds from Iran to North Korean companies already on U.S. and U.N. sanctions lists, according...
...London's Scotland Yard to establish the exact circumstance of Bhutto's death (there was much uncertainty over whether she died by gunshot or by hitting the sunroof of the vehicle, for instance.) Pakistan's Interior Ministry, meanwhile, furnished telephone intercepts that pointed to Mehsud's involvement. The CIA agreed that the Taliban commander was the principal suspect. Although he has since denied involvement in the killing, Mehsud was reported to have issued threats against Bhutto, a pro-Western opponent of Islamist extremism. But opinion polls found most Pakistanis skeptical of the official story. Instead, conspiracy theories acquired a rare...
...conservative leader of Tehran's Friday Prayers, accused the protesters themselves of killing Neda: "Any intelligent person seeing the film gets it ... the way they've shot it from where the woman's car is." Iran's ambassador to Mexico reckons the killing could be the work of the CIA. "The bullet ... is of a kind that is not used in Iran. These are methods that terrorists, the CIA and espionage agencies use." (See pictures of the legacy of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again in order to make his point.' CIA Director LEON PANETTA, on former Vice President Dick Cheney's persistent criticism of the Obama Administration's approach to combating terrorism. Panetta dubbed Cheney's approach "gallows politics...
...hemispheric crisis that will challenge the new north-south bonhomie President Barack Obama established two months ago at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Less than an hour after Honduran military aircraft had whisked Zelaya into apparent forced exile in Costa Rica, Chávez was accusing the CIA of having a hand in his ouster. "The Yanqui empire," he said, "has much to do" with what he called "this troglodyte coup...