New CIA unit to dig into public materials
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The CIA reportedly plans to expand a wing that currently translates foreign language broadcasts and documents to include a wide variety of data mining.
ime magazine says Director Porter Goss will launch the unit by Oct. 1.
The "open source" unit will search through public data such as research articles, Web sites and phone books in order to better investigate suspects.
What looks like a $100 million budget for the expanded unit will be monitored by the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte.
Critics of the CIA welcome the move, saying the agency has been too reliant on secret operation reports and failed to see the benefit of searching through open source items like the speeches of fundamentalists, Time said.
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Al-Qaeda attack foiled
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Tel Aviv - Turkish security forces prevented a mass attack the al-Qaeda terrorist group intended launching against Israeli tourists in the southern Turkish port of Alanya, the Israeli Yediot Aharanot daily reported on Sunday.
According to the Israeli daily, Turkish security forces arrested the members of an al-Qaeda cell, comprised mostly of Turkish citizens, in Alanya on Thursday.
They also found a boat docked in the harbour and loaded with 400kg of TNT, which was to have been used against the Israeli tourists.
Four Israeli cruise ships carrying 3 500 tourists to Alanya were ordered to change their routes Friday and anchor in alternate destinations following intelligence reports of a possible terror attack at the port.