"A high alert has been sounded in the state, especially in coastal districts following an alert from the Centre" Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa told reporters after chairing a meeting with top officials of Home Department in Bengaluru.
As US President Barack Obama conceded of systemic intelligence failure, media reports said the Central Intelligence Agency knew about the Nigerian terror suspect involved in a thwarted Christmas Day plane attack.
The Federal Bureau of investigation has come out with a new video warning American college students studying abroad to be on the lookout for foreign spy recruiters.
Former Central Intelligence Agency South Asia analyst, Lisa Curtis, now a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, recalled how in 1995, when she served in Islamabad as a diplomat, the Pakistan-based terror groups that were funded, armed and supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence specifically to launch attacks in Kashmir against Indian security forces, also had strong links to the Taliban.
The Central Intelligence Agency has confronted Pakistan with new evidence about ties between the country's spy service with some militant groups responsible for rising violence in Afghanistan, possibly including suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul earlier this month.
America's new intelligence chief David Petraeus has predicted that Al Qaeda leaders may flee Afghanistan and the entire south Asia as they were being pressed hard by American forces.
A sex scandal that forced Central Intelligence Agency chief David Patraeus to resign threatens to engulf another top United States general. Investigations have revealed that a Tampa socialite -- Jill Kelly -- sent 'flirtatious emails' to John Allen, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.
Interview with C D Sahay, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing, on Headley and terror.
Following the alert from Central intelligence agencies that the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was planning major terror attacks in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and other tourist spots, the investigation agencies have confirmed that SIMI leaders had a ''strong network'' with terrorist organisations operating from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Sources said investigations revealed that terrorist organisations were seeking support from SIMI to incite riots.
Former Inter Services Intelligence chief Lieutenant General. Hamid Gul responds to charges that he supports terrorism, discusses 9/11 and ulterior motives for the war on Afghanistan, claims that the US, Israel, and India are behind efforts to destabilise Pakistan.
The Central Intelligence Agency feels that nations across the globe would start co-operating with it less in the wake of the David Headley case and growing instances of home-grown terrorists, and start believing that the United States is an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret document posted by WikiLeaks
A team of Central Intelligence Agency forensic experts team will fly to Pakistan to search the compound where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed. The American spy agency will use sophisticated equipment to search for possible Al-Qaeda materials hidden inside the walls at the site.
The United States has warned countries against giving shelter to fugitive Edward Snowden or letting him travel internationally. The former Central Intelligence Agency contractor is currently believed to be in Moscow and may be on his way to the South American country of Ecuador through Havana and Venezuela.
About Rs 2,280 crore (Rs 22.80 billion) unaccounted income being allegedly routed through Private Placement Programme (PPP) has been detected by economic intelligence sleuths.
All they have said so far is that their handler was going to inform them about the exact location and time of the target after they collected the weapons," he said.
Though there has been a clamour for the Central Intelligence Agency to release secret images and videos of Al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden's death, the agency wants to keep them classified and secret.
With the National Counter-Terrorism Centre getting a nod from the government, Home Minister P Chidambaram has fulfilled his dream of becoming India's counter-terror czar. But his efforts to pattern this body on the lines of the one in the United States, which was formed after 9/11, has failed and how! B Raman analyses
A Congressional resolution has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives to recognise a Pakistani doctor, who helped Central Intelligence Agency trace Osama bin Laden, as an American hero.
Suspecting the hand of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami commander Ilyas Kashmiri in coordinating the suicide strike on the top secret Central Intelligence Agency base in eastern Afghanistan, United States authorities have asked Pakistan to hunt down and extradite the dreaded terrorist.
Pakistan has agreed in principle to launch a full-fledged military operation against Taliban militants in North Waziristan. But it will be a tough task for the country's army, as the terrain is believed to be the stronghold of numerous Arab, central Asian, Pashtun and Punjabi militants.The military operation may increase the flow of US aid to Pakistan, but the consequences might be unaffordable for the beleaguered country.
United States President Barack Obama on Monday named former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his next defence secretary, and also nominated his counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, who was involved in the planning of the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, as the new Central Intelligence Agency chief.
The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has condemned the release of Central Intelligence Agency contractor Raymond Davis under a "blood money" deal with relatives of two men he killed and threatened to target all those who aided the US in securing his acquittal in court.
The couple, who have been now been deported, were meeting with locals through their handlers and also gathering data and material regarding the country, reports Vicky Nanjappa
"Of course, from a more general perspective, the Indian weapon programme has produced sufficiently good weapons -- they did go 'bang' at Pokhran II -- to provide a nuclear deterrent that only insane fools or idiots would ignore."
India allowed the United States to use one of its air bases for refuelling the American Central Intelligence Agency's U-2 spy planes to target Chinese territories after its defeat in the 1962 war, says a declassified official document.
Obama's detractors describe the new approach to counter-terrorism as the Jesuit approach. Will it succeed? Obama and Brennan want to give the new policy a try, writes security expert B Raman
A key aide to United States President Barack Obama has dismissed reports that the new US administration has kept the nuclear deal with India on the backburner. Bruce Riedel, a former Central Intelligence Agency official who co-chaired an inter-agency committee which formulated Obama's Af-Pak policy, also did not see Robert Einhorn's recent appointment, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's special adviser on non-proliferation issues, as an impediment.
Ex-CIA official Bruce Reidel had said in Washington, DC that amid speculations over Zardari's future, he believes that the 'creeping establishment' of Pakistan's fifth military dictatorship is underway right now, reports Aziz Haniffa.
The United States allowed Pakistan to manufacture and acquire nuclear weapons without informing the Congress, a non-profit corruption watchdog has said, quoting a whistleblower who was fired for objecting to the policy.
A Pakistani vessel with 17 crew members on board was today caught by the Indian Coast Guard for straying in Indian Maritime boundary, officials said.
The social networking sites were abuzz with discussion over Osama bin Laden's end.
One could assess without fear of contradiction that the New Delhi visit of Panetta, who is still to find his feet as an intelligence chief, would have had a much larger political objective for Obama. Firstly, to reassure Indian leaders that Clinton's first visit to China does not mean the downgrading of the US relations with India.
Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif, who is poised to become Pakistan's new prime minister, on Monday said he wanted to strengthen his country's testy ties with the United States but insisted that the Central Intelligence Agency's controversial drone attacks must end as they posed a "challenge" to national sovereignty.
British humanitarian group Save the Children is being forced to shut its offices in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Tahir Ali tells us why
America's Central Intelligence Agency has taken its war against Taliban and the Al Qaeda from the mountainous Af-Pak border region to the bases in Pakistan's Peshawar and Quetta cities, a media report said on Thursday. The report by the New York Times said that the agencies that have previously shared a 'tormented relationship', are now working on the several reconnaissance missions together.
United States official Raymond Davis, who was arrested on charges of gunning down two men in Lahore, is a CIA agent. This may complicate US efforts to seek the release of Davis, who claimed that he fired in self-defence when the two men attempted to rob him.Davis was engaged in espionage and surveillance activities. The Pakistani government was aware of Davis's CIA status but had kept quiet in the face of intense US pressure.
In a 50-page memorandum filed in US district court, southern district of New York on behalf of the US government, the lawyers including India-born Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara said the court should grant summary judgment and dismiss the complaints as the information about the drone strikes is "classified."
Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen reported that according to intelligence sources, Ibrahim is a CIA asset, both as a veteran of the mujahedeen war and in a continuing connection with his casino and drug trade operations in Kathmandu.
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