The National Security Directorate said this large-scale poisoning was caused by such locally made alcohol.

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Brought back to Damascus as head of the Political Security Directorate three years ago, before becoming interior minister in October 2004, Mr Kanaan was a pillar of the regime.

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It took a month of negotiations between the Lebanese and Syrian governments before Syria consented to having the Lebanese General Security Directorate, a Hezbollah-controlled agency, retrieve the bodies, said Sheik Mohammed Ibrahim, a Tripoli-based cleric.

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In a statement released Tuesday, the Tripoli National Security Directorate announced the formation of a committee of five officers to oversee the investigation into the alcohol poisoning, which some reports call the worst ever in Libya.

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Mr. Azimi also is an occasional informant for Afghanistan's U.S.-funded intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security, say people familiar with the matter.

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The delegation includes representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, National Directorate of Security, and the Provincial Administrative Department, according to the statement.

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Karzai described the payments as a form of "government-to-government" assistance, and while he wouldn't say how much the CIA gave to the National Directorate of Security, which is the Afghan intelligence service, he said the financial help was very useful.

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Mr Djibrine is the former head of the Directorate of Documentation and Security (DDS), Mr Habre's political police force.

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In the past year, Israel established a National Cyber Directorate to encourage more research and development in cyber security and to create a national "Situation Room" to handle attacks on government and private systems.

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