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...Neither the Taliban nor al-Qaeda actually grows opium poppy. Their involvement is higher up the drug chain, where profits are fatter and so is their cut of the deal. Yasini, the Afghan antidrug czar, says the terrorists receive a share of profits from heroin sales by supplying gunmen to protect labs and convoys. Recent busts have revealed evidence of al-Qaeda's ties to the trade. On New Year's Eve, a U.S. Navy vessel in the Arabian Sea stopped a small fishing boat that was carrying no fish. After a search, says a Western antinarcotics official, "they found...
...Jakarta has apparently decided it has had enough of the ICG's warts-and-all reports. Last week, the government refused to renew work permits for Jones and an expatriate staff member. Indonesia's powerful intelligence czar, A.M. Hendropriyono, told the press that Jones' reports had tarnished the image of the country and that "many were untrue." Jones, who has written for TIME, says she's not sure what has upset Hendropriyono's intelligence agency, known by its Indonesian acronym BIN. "The accusations against us keep changing," she says. "First it was our reports on Aceh and Papua. The latest...
...whereabouts of top Baathists and the movements of insurgent cells. But that relationship also gave Chalabi and his aides extraordinary access to members of the U.S. intelligence community. At least two DIA agents who were attached to the ICP worked in the same office as Habib, the I.N.C. intel czar who is believed to have relocated to Tehran. Chalabi and his advisers deny that they received any classified information from the U.S. But Lang says that, if I.N.C. officials were in league with Tehran, they would have been able to compromise U.S. security simply by revealing the way in which...
...watchmakers (founded in Neuchâtel in 1775), will celebrate the company's historical link to Russia with an exhibit at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Founder A.L. Breguet had a long, close relationship with the Russian ruling family, and even secured imperial warrants as watchmaker to the Czar and Russian navy. The exhibit, which runs through September 26th, features watches from private collections around the world as well as from such institutions as the Louvre and the British Museum. More than 100 antique timepieces are on show, including a military pace-counter that once belonged to Czar Alexander...
...spies recruited from college campuses, the CIA and other agencies. According to his allies in Congress, Mueller is leaning toward this idea himself. Meanwhile, support is growing on the Hill for a plan drafted by two-time National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft that would create a new intelligence czar with budget and program authority over the CIA and nearly a score of other intelligence units now under the Pentagon's control...