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Deep inside the heart of the "Green Zone", the heavily fortified administrative compound in Baghdad, lies one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the war in Iraq. It is a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit that goes by the deliberately meaningless name of the Joint Support Group (JSG), and it has proved to be one of the Coalition's most effective and deadly weapons in the fight against terror. Its members - servicemen and women of all ranks recruited from all three of the Armed Forces - are trained to turn hardened terrorists into coalition spies...

Palestine Media Center- (PMC) [Official arm of the PA] http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1000 US occupation troops in Iraq shot dead an award-winning Reuters Palestinian cameraman Mazen Da’na, 43, while he was filming on Sunday near a prison run by American soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad, to be the second Palestinian journalist killed by American forces in the Iraqi capital city. Da’na’s death brings to 17 the number of journalists or their assistants who have died in Iraq since the US-led coalition invaded the eastern Arab country on March 20. Two others have been missing since the first days of the invasion. Da’na...

On July 14, in his syndicated column, Chicago Sun-Times journalist Robert Novak reported that Valerie Plame Wilson - the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, and mother of three-year-old twins - was a covert CIA agent. (She had been known to her friends as an "energy analyst at a private firm.") Why was Novak able to learn this highly secret information? It turns out that he didn't have to dig for it. Rather, he has said, the "two senior Administration officials" he had cited as sources sought him out, eager to let him know. And in journalism, that...

Highly Covert U.S.-Thai Operation Nabbed Hambali 2 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The operation by the CIA (news - web sites) and Thai counter-terrorism authorities that captured top al Qaeda operative Hambali was so secret that few inside the U.S. government knew of it beforehand, officials said on Friday. "It was highly compartmented. Hardly anybody knew about it. It was exceedingly carefully planned and carried out, and even within the U.S. government hardly anyone knew about it," a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity. Hambali, born Riduan Isamuddin,...

Conservative United States Republicans, backed by some Democrats, are seizing on anti Government protests in Tehran as an opportunity to press the Bush Administration to adopt 'regieme change' as official policy.Sam Brownback, Republican Senator from Kansas, told the Financial Times that he has support at the high level from the Pentagon for a bill supporting peaceful regieme change in Iran and that he would consider expanding his proposed Iranian Democracy Act to include funding for covert operations.Senator Brownback said a week of anti government demonstations in Tehran had contributed to a shift in th Bush Administrations thinking on how to...