Sebastian Rotella

Militant Reaffirms Role Of Pakistan In Mumbai Attacks

Last year, Indian and U.S. investigators came upon a rare promising lead in an internationally sensitive case: the 2008 attacks on Mumbai that killed 166 people and implicated Pakistan’s spy agency in terrorism. Despite Interpol warrants and diplomatic pressure, Pakistan had refused to hand over accused plotters, including an officer of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate […]

Sebastian Rotella
By Sebastian Rotella
Security officers escort Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, who also uses the alias Abu Jundal, a suspect in the 2008 Mumbai attacks arrested last month, outside a court in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Pankaj Nangia)

Last year, Indian and U.S. investigators came upon a rare promising lead in an internationally sensitive case: the 2008 attacks on Mumbai that killed 166 people and implicated Pakistan's spy agency in terrorism. Despite Interpol warrants and diplomatic pressure, Pakistan had refused to hand over accused plotters, including an officer of the

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Before Deadly Bulgaria Bombing, Tracks Of A Resurgent Iran-Hezbollah Threat

This story was co-published with Foreign Policy. After a decade in which al Qaeda dominated the world stage, the global terror threat from Iran has escalated sharply, generating a swarm of recent plots from Delhi to Mombasa to Washington and signaling an aggressive new strategy, counterterror officials say. But there were meager results until this […]

Sebastian Rotella
By Sebastian Rotella
The attack occurred shortly after the Israelis boarded a bus outside the airport in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas, a popular destination for Israeli tourists a€” particularly for high school graduates before they are drafted into military service. (AP Photo/Bulgarian Interior Ministry)

This story was co-published with Foreign Policy. After a decade in which al Qaeda dominated the world stage, the global terror threat from Iran has escalated sharply, generating a swarm of recent plots from Delhi to Mombasa to Washington and signaling an aggressive new strategy, counterterror officials say. But there were meager results until

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Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala

By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI With reporting from Habiba Nosheen, Special to ProPublica, and Brian Reed, This American Life   Chapter 1: ‘You Don’t Know Me’ The call from Guatemala put Oscar on edge. Prosecutors came looking for you, relatives in his rural hometown told him. Big shots from Guatemala City. They want […]

Sebastian Rotella
By Sebastian Rotella
Oscar Alfredo Ramírez Castañeda holds an album containing photos of Lt. Oscar Ovidio Ramírez Ramos at the back door of his home in Framingham, Mass., on May 13, 2012. (Matthew Healey for ProPublica)

By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI With reporting from Habiba Nosheen, Special to ProPublica, and Brian Reed, This American Life   Chapter 1: 'You Don't Know Me' The call from Guatemala put Oscar on edge. Prosecutors came looking for you, relatives in his rural hometown told him. Big shots from Guatemala

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