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...effort to foil terrorists overseas, the center has doubled its manpower since the Sept. 11 attacks to more than 1,100 analysts and clandestine agents. Some 2,500 cables pour into the CTC every day from CIA stations around the world, from interrogators interviewing al-Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and from foreign intelligence services that have tips on terrorists. The CIA's main cafeteria has expanded its hours to feed the center's workers at night and on weekends, so they no longer have to truck in pizzas as they did in the months just after...
...effort to foil terrorists overseas, the center has doubled its manpower since the Sept. 11 attacks to more than 1,100 analysts and clandestine agents. Some 2,500 cables pour into the CTC every day from CIA stations around the world, from interrogators interviewing al-Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and from foreign intelligence services that have tips on terrorists. The CIA's main cafeteria has expanded its hours to feed the center's workers at night and on weekends, so they no longer have to truck in pizzas as they did in the months just after...
There's good news for the 434 suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban now being held in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees no longer have to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks...
...mujahedin, who had come to help their Muslim brothers - by making items like boobytrapped ice-cream cones and exploding toys. Soon after returning to Bosnia last September, Sylvester helped uncover a plot to attack the U.S. and British embassies and then presided over the arrest and deportation to Guantanamo Bay of six Algerian-born suspects. "These are hard-core Islamic networks which are using Bosnia - because of its weak rule of law and porous borders - to prepare new attacks," Sylvester said. Charities, including those carrying out honorable programs, provide ideal cover, he said. A search of a Sarajevo office...
Case in point: the refusal by the U.S. to relay information provided by French al-Qaeda suspects held at Guantanamo Bay. "First the Americans said they couldn't transfer evidence obtained outside U.S. territory," said the official. "Then they said because Guantanamo is a military base, it's the Defense Department's decision--and that the Defense Department (DOD) considers it top secret. It's a joke." Both the DOD and the CIA refused comment...