The accusation -- that the Alfa Group's leaders had organized drug shipments from Central Asia to Europe -- was based on a United States intelligence source, based in turn on an interview with an unnamed former K.G.B. agent.
"The technology being used now [by the authorities] is really pretty effective". The rival magazine Newsweek quoted a Middle Eastern intelligence source as saying that an unidentified al-Qaida member "turned over and made a deal with the United States", taking the $25m reward offered and extracting a supplementary $2m in order to relocate with his family to the United Kingdom.
A senior Indonesian figure in Al Qaeda wanted in the 2002 bombing of a Bali nightclub has been arrested in Pakistan, intelligence sources in Jakarta said Tuesday.
Russia's overseas intelligence service has sent agents to Ireland to spy on people involved in politics, economics, business and technology using diplomatic accreditation provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to Irish intelligence sources.
A group of Pakistani security officers detained Mr. Khan, a tall, heavy-set 25-year-old computer engineer, on suspicions that he was the same elusive operative for Al Qaeda whom United States intelligence sources had tipped them off to two months earlier.
Unlike bin Laden, Zarqawi has also placed a high priority on fighting Israel and has tried -- unsuccessfully -- to organize bombings and suicide attacks there, according to Arab intelligence sources.
The men are trained in camps in the Bekaa Valley and Iran; intelligence sources told me that Mugniyah, in coöperation with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, also has a base on the Iranian shore of the Caspian Sea, where his men are trained in SEAL-style operations.
And in several interviews in Moscow last winter, Soviet intelligence sources admitted for the first time that the Russians made secret arrangements with Hanoi to interrogate American POWs.
Citing the situations in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen — and with Western and Gulf intelligence sources insisting that Houthi rebels in Yemen are backed by Iran — the Gulf countries fear that Iranians are on a quest to spread Shi'ism throughout the region.
In Washington, an intelligence source reported that satellite photos have confirmed thousands of Transformers massing on the southern border: "We are seeing no Autobots.
He is America's most wanted in east Africa.Intelligence sources say Mr Fazul is the head of al-Qaeda in east Africa and intelligence chief for the Shabab (meaning "young men"), a Somali jihadist group intent on fomenting a holy war with "Christian" Ethiopia (which in fact has an almost equally large Muslim population).
