A full-force interagency raid was under way: armed officers from Homeland Security Investigations, Border Patrol, the sheriff's office, and Gonzalez's unit had just closed in on the trailer.
Many of these investigations bordered on the farcical.
Egyptian journalists revealed results of the first Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalists cross-border investigation that tracked the wealth of Egyptian oil and gas tycoon Hussein Salem, the right hand of former president Hosni Mubarak.
Turkey's deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc, did not rule out a bombing or suicide attack as the cause of the Cilvegozu explosion, and said all possibilities were under investigation at the border post in southern Turkey's Hatay Province.
General McKiernan did not comment on the June 10 attack since a three-party investigation into the border clash had not yet been concluded, but he was very clear that militants were using their sanctuary in Pakistan to fire across the border and that the NATO and American forces had the right to fire back.
Alden's drug smuggling efforts were described as a "brazen attempt" by NCA border investigation head, John McGowan.
"We are now... trying to establish how the bags ended up where they did," said Matthew Rivers, from the NCA's border investigation team.
Additionally, the partners established protocols for collaborative cross-border investigation of infectious disease outbreaks; set up an automatic notification system for cross-border events; and tested their preparedness for pandemic influenza.
He was involved in a criminal investigation into cross-border smuggling.
Pakistan's military refused to cooperate with the American inquiry, claiming that previous American investigations of disputed border attacks had been biased.
The Russian authorities later expressed anger that the F.B.I. had used such methods in the cross-border investigation, in a sense violating Russian sovereignty.
