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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in this photo from March 1, 2003. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Sept. 11 case back before Gitmo war crimes court

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (right) and co-defendant Walid bin Attash attend a U.S. military hearing at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on Saturday, May 5, 2012, in this sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

Sept. 11 trial rules under scrutiny at Gitmo

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

** FILE ** A crowd at the State Department embraces Robert G. Anders, one of the six diplomats spirited out of Tehran in 1980 under the guise of a Hollywood crew member and with the help of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor (left). (The Associated Press)

Tony Mendez, clandestine CIA hero of Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo,’ reveals the real story behind film smash

By Patrick Hruby - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Jan. 22, 1983, file photo, ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson, center, leaves federal court after a day of jury selection accompanied by U.S. Marshals in Houston. Wilson, who was branded a traitor and convicted of shipping arms to Libya but whose conviction was later overturned after he served 22 years in prison, died on Sept. 10, 2012. He was 84. (AP Photo/File)

Former CIA operative Edwin Wilson dies at 84

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World Briefs: Israel military holds largest snap drill in years

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Libyans search for documents inside Abu Salim Prison, Libya's most notorious prison during Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime and the scene of a 1996 massacre of prisoners, in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Rights group: Evidence of wider U.S. waterboarding

By Lee Keath and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Illustration Osama Raid Film by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

FITTON: Team Obama’s secret film deal

By Tom Fitton

This book cover image released by Dutton shows "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. (Associated Press/Dutton)

Pentagon weighing options against ex-SEAL author

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this undated photo released by Habib Rahman, Gul Rahman is shown. Gul Rahman died in the early hours of Nov. 20, 2002, after being shackled to a concrete wall in a secret CIA prison in northern Kabul, Afghanistan, known as the Salt Pit. He was suspected of links to the terrorist group al Qaeda. Rahman is the only detainee known to have died in a CIA-run prison. The Justice Department announced Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, it has closed an inquiry into CIA interrogations of terrorist detainees without bringing criminal charges. (AP Photo/Habib Rahman, Ho)

Justice Dept. won’t bring charges over CIA interrogations

By Pete Yost - Associated Press

(Dutton via Associated Press)

Bin Laden raid book coming out Sept. 11

By Hillel Italie and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Book on bin Laden raid coming out Sept. 11

By HILLEL ITALIE and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Illustration Nuclear Israel by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KAHLILI: Iran admits giving WMDs to terrorists

By Reza Kahlili

This Nov. 7, 2006, file photo shows the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., as he speaks upon winning his ninth term, in Charleston, W.Va. Byrd created a stir in the mid-1960s within the nation's intelligence community when he obtained secret FBI reports leaked by the CIA. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, File)

Late Sen. Byrd’s FBI files reveal CIA leak uproar

By Lawrence Messina - Associated Press

** FILE ** President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday, March 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

U.S. sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

Al-Shabab executes 3 members

By Abdi Guled - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Red Cell’

By Paul Davis - Special to The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Art of Intelligence’

By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times

In the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA unit dedicated to hunting for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden complained that it was running out of money, according to declassified documents dating from 1992 to 2004. (Associated Press)

CIA releases papers from 9/11 file

By Adam Goldman - Associated Press

Drones and cyberattacks changing the face of American warfare

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