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In 2003, the CIA began to covertly arm and finance Somali warlords opposed to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). [7] From the CIA station in Nairobi, Kenya CIA agents would make frequent trips to Mogadishu by plane where they would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the warlords. The CIAs policy was evaluated as a failure, due to the ICU ...
Pages in category "CIA activities by country" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
CIA activities by country (13 C, 36 P) Overseas CIA activities by region (4 C) Pages in category "CIA activities" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 ...
In April 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama placed Anwar al-Awlaki on a list of people whom the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was authorized to kill because of terrorist activities. [27] [28] [29] The "targeted killing" of an American citizen was unprecedented. Al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups challenged the order in court.
A June 2006 report from the Council of Europe estimated 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA on EU territory (with the cooperation of Council of Europe members), and rendered to other countries, often after having transited through secret detention centres ("black sites") used by the CIA, some located in Europe.
Pages in category "Central Intelligence Agency operations" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total. ... CIA activities in Japan;
CIA paramilitaries soon concluded that, in Russia and its proxies, the agency was facing an adversary whose capabilities far outmatched the Islamist groups that CIA had been battling in the post-9 ...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world. The National Resources Division is the domestic wing of the CIA. Although the CIA is focused on gathering intelligence ...