Archive for June 8th, 2009

Reuters – The Treasury Department will allow 10 banks to pay back Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back

CIA urges judge to keep detainee papers secret

Written by on Monday, June 8th, 2009 in Latest News.

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency’s terror interrogations would gravely hurt national security.

Panetta sent a 24-page missive to New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, arguing that release of agency cables describing tough interrogation methods used on al-Qaida suspects would tell the enemy far too much about U.S. counterterrorism work.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

Thai army chief visits mosque where 11 killed (AFP)

Written by on Monday, June 8th, 2009 in 250555.

Handout photo from the Thai police shows police officers examining the bodies of men who were killed when suspected militants attacked worshippers at a mosque in the Cho-i-Rong distrist of Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat.(AFP/HO/THAI POLICE)AFP – Thailand’s powerful army chief has visited the restive south of the country, a day after gunmen killed 11 people at a mosque in one of the worst incidents of a five-year insurgency.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back



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