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...captured militants, a notion that perplexed terrorist experts more used to the GIA killing its enemies in well-planned strikes. Puzzlement grew when the GIA issued a second communiqué in May, saying that it had "slit the throats of the seven monks." Some French officials suspect Algerian secret-service officials had actually staged the abduction to further demonize the GIA in European eyes. The follow-up plan to free the monks in a "rescue operation," sources speculate, was ruined when unsuspecting regular-army forces attacked the suspected militants. Algerian leaders have emphatically denied all allegations. Read "Fighting Terrorism: Lessons...
...them the impression that it was a big deal." After all, says the official, the CIA has "God knows how many programs" that are never activated; and in any case, it was "perfectly sensible to examine all avenues of taking out the al-Qaeda leadership." (Read "The CIA's Secret Program: Why Wasn't Panetta Told...
...current uproar concerns Panetta's controversial decision to immediately alert the congressional intelligence oversight committees about the secret terrorist-assassination program the CIA reportedly began developing (but never put into action) after Sept. 11, 2001. Informed of the program on June 23, Panetta told the committees the very next...
Nevertheless, many CIA watchers take the opposite view. Panetta's handling of the secret program was "the one bright lining in this whole business," says Amy Zegart, a national security expert and professor of public policy at UCLA. By immediately shutting down the program, he "signaled that he has turned a new page at the CIA," she adds...
Those are some of the locations where James Tseng plied his trade for 34 years, sinking as low as providing all-purpose Chinese buffets before returning home to reclaim his roots with a vengeance. At James Kitchen Big Secret, tel: (886-2) 2343 2275, on Yongkang Street's restaurant row (and at James Kitchen Small Secret, a nearby storefront that takes the inevitable overflow) the menus are primers of the island's homespun culinary techniques. Expect soups and stews that are a tangy mélange of dried fish, cabbage and pumpkin, supplemented by clams and grilled-whole local catches...