Tens of thousands of Greeks rioted in the streets of Athens, Greece Wednesday while much of the country went on a 24-hour strike against government austerity measures. A small group of youths threw Molotov cocktails at police, who responded with tear gas. However, the 20,000 people who filed through downtown Athens—a relatively large crowd for a Greek strike—mostly limited themselves to chanting anti-government slogans.

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal EUROPE Nationwide Strike Paralyzes Greece

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping to prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets, it emerged yesterday.

His code name with Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, was ‘Green Prince’. The son of the Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, supplied key intelligence almost daily from 1996.

Mosab has written a book that has revealed his years as a spy that has Shin Bet worried for revelations about their operations.

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Najibullah Zazi told a judge the terror network recruited him to be a suicide bomber in New York, where he went to high school and once worked a coffee cart just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Zazi admitted in court Monday that he plotted to detonate homemade bombs in the Manhattan subways in September near the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

Flushing High School friends Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay are already charged in connection with Zazi’s trip to an Al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan in 2008. They are likely to face additional charges with the confession.

A NATO airstrike hit three minibuses traveling on a major road near Uruzgan’s border with central Day Kundi province killing at least 27 civilians in the central Afghanistan location. There were 42 people in the vehicles.

Reports indicated that NATO planes fired at a convoy of three vehicles, killing at least 27 people, including four women and a child. At least 12 people were injured.

SOURCE: MSNBC Afghan officials: Airstrike kills 27 civilians

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In espionage, intelligence, also known as ‘intel’ or active intelligence refers to discrete or secret information with currency and relevance such information for its accuracy and value. Intel also includes the abstraction, evaluation, and understanding of information for accuracy and value in decision-making.

Sometimes called “active data” or “active intelligence”, intelligence typically regards the current plans, decisions, and actions of people, as these may have urgency or may otherwise be considered “valuable” from the point of view of the intelligence-gathering entity. Active intelligence is treated as a constantly mutable component, or variable, within a larger equation of understanding the secret, covert, or otherwise private “intelligence” of an opponent, or competitor, to answer questions or obtain advance warning of events and movements deemed to be important or otherwise relevant.

Mulvi Kabir, the former Taliban governor in Afghanistan’s Nangahar Province, and a key figure in the Taliban regime was recently captured in the Naw Shera district of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province by Pakistani police forces. Mulvi Kabir is considered to be among the top ten most wanted Taliban leaders.

SOURCE: FOXNews: Exclusive: Major Taliban Operative Captured

A suicide bomber attempted to detonate his jacket at a police station in Mansehra, Pakistan but police killed him before he detonated his jacket. At least five police officers were hospitalized when the attacker threw a hand grenade before he detonated his jacket. The officers were able to prevent the detonation of the bomber’s jacket by neutralizing him with a shot in the head.

SOURCE: CNN: Airstrikes kill 30 militants in Pakistan

A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday at the Balakot police station, which killed a police chief and injured three people people.

SOURCE: CNN: Airstrikes kill 30 militants in Pakistan

Thirty militants were killed Saturday in airstrikes targeting hideouts in the Shawal region of South Waziristan. There are an estimated 8,000 militants in South Waziristan when the offensive was launched, who are either on the run or are hiding. About 700 have been killed recently.

SOURCE: CNN: Airstrikes kill 30 militants in Pakistan

Six NATO troops were killed Thursday in the offensive of Operation Moshtarak near Marjah, Afghanistan. A seventh soldier was killed on Friday. The seven casualties brought the death toll of international troops from the six-day operation to 12.

At least 12 civilians have also been killed in the operation.

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