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NATO Denies Report US Is Weighing Special Ops in Pakistan

NATO today denied a report saying that top U.S. military commanders are considering launching elite ground raids into Pakistan to try to capture or kill militants along the border with Afghanistan, and speed up security gains before American troops start pulling out in July 2011. Unidentified U.S. officials in Washington...

Trade Show Offers Peek at Secret Spy Tech World

TAMPA, Fla. (June 17) -- From the front, it's just a ramshackle Middle-Eastern corner store selling apple-scented tobacco and water pipes. But walk through a curtain to the back and you've entered another world: a fully functioning lab capable of producing mustard gas. It's an exact replica of a clandestine chemical...

Report: Petraeus Ordered Expansion of Secret Ops

(May 25) -- The top U.S. commander in the Middle East has signed a directive ordering an expansion of covert military activity aimed at disrupting militant groups and countering threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries, The New York Times reports today. The Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force Execute...