Marc Perelman meets Ali Soufan, former FBI special agent and expert on Yemen. They discuss the role of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Ali Soufan explains why he believes the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda is probably the most dangerous of the whole group.
On May 2nd 2011, al Qaeda's leader and charismatic founder was killed in a raid carried out by the US military. Osama Bin Laden had been hiding for 5 years just yards away from Pakistan's most prestigious military school. It was a victory over terrorism for President Obama, but an insult which is hard to forgive for the Pakistani army. An inquiry launched by the Pakistani government has yet to make its findings public.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation Thursday released a 191-page file it compiled on late Apple founder Steve Jobs. The report contains information about Jobs' early hashish and LSD use, and questions his integrity.
The activist hacker group Anonymous has intercepted and published a sensitive phone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard – discussing how to fight hacking. The FBI said it was investigating the matter.
What is the role of intelligence today? How has it developed since the days of the Cold War? In this edition of the programme we explore the murky world of spying with documentary film maker David Korn-Brzoza. Throughout his documentary David explains to us how business and industrial espionage are taking centre stage.
Jack Cloonan, former FBI special agent for Bin Laden Unit (1996-2002)
gives his assessement on the potency of Al Qaeda in North Africa and especially in Libya. According to him, Muammar Gaddafi is trying to justify why he has turned weapons on his own people. Saying that the revolt is driven by Al Qaeda is overstated.
A twenty-one year old Muslim convert is facing charges after attempting to bomb an Army recruitment centre using an explosive provided by an undercover FBI agent that he didn’t realise was a fake.
Federal agents have arrested a consulting firm executive in New York in what is expected to be the first of multiple arrests linked to an extensive insider-trading scam that has been under investigation for the past three years.
In today’s international press review, we learn about another oracle animal: Mani the bird. Like Paul the “Pulpo”, Mani has also predicted who will win the World Cup. In the programme, we also look at the Bettencourt case and the spy swap between Russia and the US.
In today’s international press review, we look at the The Washington Post’s intelligence blog where Jeff Stein analyses the old-fashioned techniques of a Russian spy ring cracked by the FBI. We also look at the Brazilian papers the day after their victory over Chile, Canadian papers analysing the huge number of arrests at last weekend’s G20 summit and finally the Daily Mail has a story of an owner reunited with his dog after five years. TUESDAY, 29th JUNE 2010
