U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA. full story ![]()
A year ago, The Associated Press discovered a foiled al-Qaida plot. Worried about the safety of an informant in the case, the CIA asked the AP to delay publishing the story until their spy could be secured. The AP agreed.
yahoo.com (6 days ago)
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit attorney who represented the underwear bomber says his law license has been suspended for six months.
theoaklandpress.com (30 days ago)
The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Russian authorities contacted the CIA in the fall of 2011 and raised concerns that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed last week in a confrontation with police, was seen as an increasingly radical...
washingtonpost.com (29 days ago)
Lawyers for accused serial killer James “Whitey” Bulger made the stunning announcement this afternoon that Bulger was never an informant for the FBI.“James Bulger was never an informant for the FBI or anyone else,” attorney J.W. Carney Jr. told reporters outside Boston federal courthouse. “We have never said in the courtroom that he was an informant. We have never filed any...
bostonherald.com (3 months and 9 days ago)
SANAA, Yemen — A Yemeni security official says a suicide bomber blew up an explosives-filled vehicle at a pro-government militia headquarters Monday, killing at least five people.The attack came after a security official disclosed that the nation's president rejected a truce with al-Qaida.The bombing took place in Lawder in the southern Abayan province, an area once held by...
bostonherald.com (2 months and 21 days ago)
Luis Octavio López Vega, a former adviser to a Mexican drug czar and a D.E.A. informant, has been in hiding as Mexican officials seek his arrest and U.S. officials have cut ties with him.
nytimes.com (25 days ago)
The CIA added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a U.S. government terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on W…
azstarnet.com (29 days ago)

WASHINGTON -- Two U.S. officials briefed on the Boston marathon investigation say the Russian government contacted the FBI and the CIA separately in 2011 with concerns about Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), one of the men authorities say was behind the attacks. One of the officials says the CIA was contacted by Russia in the fall of 2011. Officials say Russia contacted...
huffingtonpost.com (29 days ago)
- The CIA added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a U.S. government terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
mydesert.com (28 days ago)
AP The CIA added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a U.S. government terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
timesleader.com (29 days ago)
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