N.Y. Times reporter assignment

     Mr. Mark Mazetti, Pulitzer Prize winning  reporter for the New York Times who covers the National Security Administration, the CIA, and and more. 
    Mazzetti covers national security as a correspondent for the New York Times at the Washington, D.C. office. Mazzetti has worked with the New York Times since 2006 and writes articles pertaining to politics and international relations. 
  RWARDS

• In 2009 Mazzetti shared a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting with Jane Perlez, Eric P. Schmitt and Pir Zubair Shah
• In 2008 Mazzetti received the Livingston award for national reporting, for an expose revealing the CIA's destruction of controversial video tapes which exposed the United States' interrogation tactics for Al Qaedadetainees

     In May 2011, Charles Kaiser asserted that Mazzetti's “coverage of American torture will forever live in infamy,” citing a story written by Mazzetti in collaboration with Helene Cooper and Peter Baker “which credulously adopted the line of former Bush administration officials (as Mazzetti has done dozens of times before) who were desperately trying to convince the world that torture was the main reason that Bin Laden had been located.”

Kunming

     KUNMING, a city of China — Three more suspects were arrested in connection with the weekend knife attacks in southern China that left 29 people dead, and the assailants' leader has been identified, authorities said late Monday.

     Chinese authorities blamed the attack on separatists from the northwestern region of Xinjiang, which has a large population of Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority.
     The Ministry of Public Security said the attack in Kunming, which officials are treating as a terrorist act, was led by a man named Abdurehim Kurban. It was unclear whether Kurban, whose age, occupation and residence were not released, was among four suspects now in custody or was one of the four attackers shot dead by police at the scene of the rampage Saturday night.