Whitlock, Craig. "After a Decade at War With West, Al-Qaeda Still Impervious to Spies." Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2008, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Whitlock, Craig. "After a Decade at War With West, Al-Qaeda Still Impervious to Spies." Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2008, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to U.S. and European intelligence officials, "[a] decade after al-Qaeda issued a global declaration of war against America, U.S. spy agencies have had little luck recruiting well-placed informants and are finding the upper reaches of the network tougher to penetrate than the Kremlin during the Cold War."
[Terrorism/00s/08]
Whitlock, Craig. "The East Berlin Tunnel: Whose Ruse? In Cold War Spy Games, a Coup for the CIA Wasn't All It Seemed." Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2008, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The author rehashes the usual points of discussion that surround the Berlin Tunnel. The occasion for the article seems to be the apparent recent discovery of the release (it was released in February 2007) of the CIA's internal history of the operation, The Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956. The CIA document is carried in three parts on the Washington Post's website:
1. http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/tunnel1.pdf
2. http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/tunnel2.pdf
3. http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/tunnel3.pdf
It is also available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/tunnel.pdf.
[CIA/50s/Tunnel]
Whitlock, Craig. "Germans Drop Bid for Extraditions In CIA Case: 13 Agency Operatives Charged in Kidnapping." Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2007, A9. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
German authorities confirmed on 23 September 2007 "that they have dropped their efforts to seek the extradition of 13 CIA operatives charged in the kidnapping" of Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, four years ago.
[CIA/00s/07; Germany/00s]
Whitlock, Craig. "Italy Seeks Extradition of 22 CIA Operatives." Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2005, A19. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 11 November 2005, "Italian prosecutors ... formally requested the extradition of 22 U.S. citizens believed to be CIA operatives on charges that they seized" Egyptian Islamic cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, "off a Milan street in early 2003 and flew him to Cairo, where he later said he was tortured.... The prosecutors' extradition request is now before Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli."
[CIA/00s/05/Gen; OtherCountries/Italy/PostCW]
Whitlock, Craig. "Jordan's Spy Agency: Holding Cell for the CIA." Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2007, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"[A]ccording to documents and former prisoners, human rights advocates, defense lawyers and former U.S. officials," Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) has provided "a covert way station for CIA prisoners captured in other countries."
[CIA/00s/07; OtherCountries/Jordan]
Whitlock, Craig. "Prosecutors: Italian Agency Helped CIA Seize Cleric." Washington Post, 6 Jul. 2006, A15. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 5 July 2006, Italian prosecutors said that they had "firm evidence" that Sismi, the military intelligence agency, "collaborated with the CIA to kidnap" radical Islamic cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, in Milan in 2003. Two high-ranking Italian intelligence officials have been arrested and warrants issued for four unnamed Americans. Authorities did not name the Sismi officials, but "Italian media identified them as Marco Mancini, head of military counterespionage, and Gustavo Pignero, Sismi's chief for northern Italy at the time of the kidnapping."
[CIA/00s/06/Gen; OtherCountries/Italy/PostCW]
Whitlock, Craig. "Warrants Issued for 13 CIA Operatives in Germany Kidnapping." Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2007. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 31 January 2007, German prosecutors filed arrest warrants in Munich for "13 CIA operatives suspected of kidnapping a German citizen in the Balkans in 2004 and taking him to a secret prison in Afghanistan" before releasing him several months later.
[CIA/00s/07; Germany/00s]
Whitlock, Craig, and Karen DeYoung. "Al-Qaeda Figure Is Killed in Pakistan: Senior Commander Blamed in Bombing at U.S. Afghan Base." Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2008, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to Western officials and the Islamic radical Web site Al-Fajr Media Center, Abu Laith al-Libi, a "senior al-Qaeda commander[,] was killed this week in Pakistan.... The Western officials declined to give details of how Libi died. But there is evidence he was targeted in a missile strike that killed 12 people [on 29 January 2008] in a remote village in northwestern Pakistan."
[Terrorism/00s/08]
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