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Craig Michael Whitlock (born 1968?) is a journalist working for The Washington Post. He has worked for the Post since 1998, and covered the Maryland Statehouse in Annapolis and the Prince George's County police department before joining the foreign desk in 2004. He was awarded the German Marshall Fund's 2005 Peter R. Weitz senior prize for his coverage of international terrorist networks. He is a graduate of Duke University and has also reported for The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C. In 1996, he got married to Jennifer Ninel Toth, a journalist who graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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Lithuania opens new inquiry into CIA prisons

VILNIUS, LITHUANIA -- Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned al-Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. This Story CIA ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Al-Qaeda,  Washington Post Company,  White House,  Valdas Adamkus

Lithuanian officials open new inquiry into secret CIA prisons

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned Al Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. Now the ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Al-Qaeda,  Valdas Adamkus

Lithuania investigates possible CIA 'black site'

ANTAVILIAI, LITHUANIA -- Residents of this village were mystified five years ago when tight-lipped American construction workers suddenly appeared at a mothballed riding stable here and built a large, two-story building without windows, ringed by a ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, The Washington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Washington Post Company,  White House,  Al-Qaeda

Joyful Germans mark the fall of Berlin Wall

BERLIN - Exultant Germans on Monday relived the spontaneous breaching of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, as aging Cold War luminaries returned to the once-divided city to celebrate the peaceful outcome of Eastern Europe’s revolution for freedom. On a ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, Boston Globe,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mikhail Gorbachev,  Lech Walesa,  Angela Merkel,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Dmitry Medvedev

In Germany, an ode to joy

BERLIN -- For once, Germans celebrated a moment from their tumultuous past without a pang of guilt. This Story In Germany, an ode to joy Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall Share your memories Photo poll: Best image of the Wall Key facts about the ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, The Washington Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Gordon Brown,  Dmitry Medvedev,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall

This November marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Washington Post Editor Marc Fisher, who served as The Post's Berlin correspondent in 1989, remembers the jubilation on the streets and reflects on the lasting legacy of the fall ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, The Washington Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company,  Mikhail Gorbachev,  Lech Walesa,  Angela Merkel,  Dmitry Medvedev

Nostalgia for life behind the wall surfaces in Germany

EISENHUETTENSTADT, Germany - In this fading factory town, built more than a half-century ago to honor Stalin, the former East German dictatorship still generates fond memories. As Germans prepare to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, Boston Globe,  8 Nov 2009

Italy convicts 22 CIA operatives, U.S. Air Force colonel in rendition case

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From CRAIG WHITLOCK, The Washington Post,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Bill Clinton,  George W. Bush,  White House,  Barack Obama

In unified Germany, a split over the past

EISENHUETTENSTADT, GERMANY -- In this fading factory town, built more than a half-century ago to honor Stalin, the former East German dictatorship still generates fond memories. As Germans prepare to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Italian court to hand down verdict on CIA extraordinary rendition

MILAN -- An Italian judge said he expected to issue a verdict Wednesday in a criminal trial that has exposed details of an alleged CIA operation that led to the kidnapping and torture of a Muslim cleric. Twenty-five CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force ...

From CRAIG WHITLOCK, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr,  Abu Omar

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