Covert Assassinations

5 Of the World’s Most Elite Mercenary Armies

May 9, 2013

Source: Policy Mic Have you ever wanted to know about the word’s elite mercenary armies? Have you been too afraid to ask because they are the world’s most elite mercenary armies? Well, never fear because we’ve complied a list of some of them right here. These private military contractors are stationed throughout the world in conflicts that [...]

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The World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Armies

April 23, 2013

Editor’s Note: Political destruction of nations by means of propaganda and military coups carried out by mercenary forces Mercenaries Next Payday: Commando Logistics for Africa Shadow Wars Former CEO reveals Blackwater worked as ‘virtual extension of the CIA’ Dyncorp Mercs contracted to hunt down MANPADS THE MARCH OF THE PRIVATE ARMIES British Private Mercenary Navy [...]

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In New Mexico desert, drone pilots learn the new art of war

April 22, 2013

Source: Reuters The tide of war may be receding, as President Barack Obama is fond of saying, but U.S. military demand for unmanned drones and their remote pilots is growing. Here in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. Air Force has ramped up training of drone operators – even as the nation increasingly debates their [...]

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Afghanistan Airstrikes, C.I.A. and the Secret Militia 0-4 Unit

April 18, 2013

Source: NYT The spokesman for President Hamid Karzaisaid Thursday that the C.I.A. was responsible for calling in an airstrike on April 7 that left 17 Afghan civilians dead, 12 of them children, and that the secret Afghan militias that the agency controls behaved as if they were “responsible to no one.” It was a C.I.A. operation using a [...]

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Operating in the Shadows: IDF’s Elite Combat Units

April 14, 2013

Source: JP IN THE shadows, away from the public glare, several elite combat units operate to safeguard Israel’s security. Some gather intelligence behind enemy lines, others are sent to secure a strategic site, form Israel’s first response to hostage situations, while still others rescue soldiers in trouble. Some units receive classified missions that will never [...]

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The CIA’s Unlikely Insurgent

April 12, 2013

Source:WSJ It seems oddly fitting that the death of William Colby, a man once in charge of his country’s shadowy spying activities, should have itself seemed mysterious. In April 1996, Colby’s canoe was found near a sound on Chesapeake Bay, not far from his Maryland home. A few days later his body was discovered. Although [...]

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Covert Assassinations | Turf Wars : Man With Ties to Karzai Dies in a Military Raid

April 11, 2013

Related Articles: Bodyguard who killed Karzai’s brother was trusted CIA contact, Senior adviser to Afghan president Hamid Karzai, murdered in Kabul and Karzai’s Brother Dies A Gangster’s Death in Kandahar Source: NYT A special operations raid meant to disrupt aTaliban arms operation in southern Afghanistan ended in the death of a man with family ties to the [...]

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The tip of the spear: US Special Operations Forces

March 29, 2013

Source: Aljazeera The rise of SOCOM – to train proxy forces in all the places where US projects its power – is alarming. The recent news of a possible shift in the operation of drones from the CIA to the Department of Defense was by and large received with a shrug. Given that the programme would likely be operated [...]

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U.N. aims to approve Congo “search and destroy” brigades

March 28, 2013

Source: Reuters The U.N. Security Council aims to approve on Thursday the creation of a special force that would carry out “targeted offensive operations” to wipe out armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, council diplomats said. The 15-member Security Council was still negotiating on Wednesday a draft resolution to establish the so-called intervention [...]

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Is it a plan to destabilise Balochistan?CIA, Britain’s MI-6, India’s RAW, Israel’s Mossad and NDS of Afghanistan are active in Balochistan

March 26, 2013

Source: Nation PK There is a widespread perception that America’s CIA, Britain’s MI-6, India’s RAW, Israel’s Mossad and NDS of Afghanistan are active in Balochistan. AT a moment when election commission is all geared up to hold elections, former president Pervez Musharraf and Sardar Akhtar Mengal have arrived in Pakistan arguably under an insidious London [...]

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U.S. State Department, DEA and Honduran National Police Death Squads

March 24, 2013

Source: AP TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The U.S. State Department, which spends millions of taxpayer dollars a year on the Honduran National Police, has assured Congress that money only goes to specially vetted and trained units that don’t operate under the direct supervision of a police chief once accused of extrajudicial killings and “social cleansing.” But [...]

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Inside Balochistan’s dirty war

March 18, 2013

Source: Hindu Late last month, Zamur Domki and her 12-year-old daughter were driving back to their home in an upmarket Karachi neighbourhood when a black car swerved across the road, blocking their route. Thinking she was a target of an armed robbery, Ms Domki offered the masked men who surrounded the car her jewellery and [...]

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Venezuela’s Maduro accuses Pentagon and the CIA of “assassination plot” to kill rival

March 17, 2013

Editor’s Notes: At stake in this election is regime change and Venezuelan oil. Source: Reuters Venezuela’s acting president urged U.S. President Barack Obama to stop what he called a plot by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency to kill his opposition rival and trigger a coup ahead of an April 14 election. Nicolas Maduro said the [...]

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CIA to begin covert drone killing program in Syria

March 15, 2013

Source: LA Times The CIA has stepped up secret contingency planning to protect the United States and its allies as the turmoil expands in Syria, including collecting intelligence on Islamic extremists for the first time for possible lethal drone strikes, according to current and former U.S. officials. President Obama has not authorized drone missile strikes in Syria, [...]

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The Story of How U.S. Special Forces Infiltrated Pakistan

March 8, 2013

Editor’s Note: Missed this report from last year.It is a relevant story of CIA/JSOC operations into the sovereign nation of Pakistan. It is especially important with the current geopolitical implications of the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline and recent takeover of Gwadar Port by the Chinese. U.S. support of Judallah Balochistan separatists places the future of Gwadar Port and [...]

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U.S. Boosts War Role in Africa (and Targeting Kurdish Separatist Fighters Along Turkey/Iraq Border)

March 4, 2013

Editor’s Note: Check out the last two paragraphs of the article. Current and former intelligence officials compared the cooperation in Mali to the way the U.S. helps Turkey target Kurdish separatist fighters along Turkey’s border with Iraq. There, video feeds and other intelligence collected by U.S.-piloted Predator drones are relayed to a joint intelligence [...]

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How Does the U.S. Mark Unidentified Men in Pakistan and Yemen as Drone Targets?

March 2, 2013

Editor’s Note: The answer to the question is simple. Boots on the ground. CIA, Special Operation Forces and Private Contrators Operating in Yemen and U.S. to establish military bases in Yemen Source: Pro Publica Earlier this week, we wrote about a significant but often overlooked aspect of the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen: so-called signature strikes, in which [...]

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The Israel-Hezbollah Shadow War

February 25, 2013

Source: Al Monitor Five years ago, when Hezbollah’s military commander Imad Mughniyah was assassinated in Damascus, fingers were quickly pointed toward Israel. The group’s secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, promised to launch an open war on Israel to avenge his slain comrade. Everyone was worried the blood of the most wanted Hezbollah member might ignite a regional conflict. This never happened, [...]

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Shadow Wars: Mideast’s covert ops

February 18, 2013

Source: UPI The death of an Iranian general in Syria and the death in an Israeli prison of an Australian linked to Israel’s intelligence exposed the shadow war in the Middle East. The assassination of an Iranian general in Syria and the discovery of the mysterious death in an Israeli prison of an Australian linked [...]

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Yemen Is Sending Thousands Of Young Men To Fight With Al-Qaeda In Syria

February 13, 2013

Source: BI Recruited by Islamist leaders and financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, more than 5,000 young menhave traveled to Turkey over the last four months to fight with al-Qaeda in Syria, Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee reports. As of October, Turkish Airlines offers four flights per week from the Yemeni cities of Aden and Sanaa to [...]

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Mossad covert operations jeopardise Pak-US ties

February 13, 2013

Source: Nation Agents with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of Jundallah, the Pakistan-based militant group, to conduct the Jewish state’s ‘covert, bloody, and ongoing campaign’ against Iran, a report in an influential US magazine said. “It’s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,” [...]

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Syrian rebel leader assasinated, sparks fears of turf war

January 11, 2013

Source: DNA The killing of a senior Islamist rebel commander near Syria’s border with Turkey could indicate a turf war between armed groups that will hamper their struggle to overthrow Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, sources told Reuters. Thaer al-Waqqas, northern commander of al-Farouq Brigades, one of Syria’s largest rebel groups, was shot dead at a [...]

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MİT documents show MAK used for psychological warfare

January 9, 2013

Source: Today’s Zaman Two separate documents sent to a parliamentary coup investigation commission by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) suggest that the Wartime Search and Rescue Unit (MAK) resorted to illegal methods and carried out several atrocities and that it was used to conduct psychological warfare against certain political parties and individuals. MAK was affiliated [...]

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Russia’s hand exposed: Spying Imams and mosque plots reveal Chechen link to Syria

January 1, 2013

Editors Notes: Intelligence strategies being conducted at each front. Additional information. Chechen connection with Al Nusrah Front in Syria is growing: Eyes on Turkey and concern in Russia Source: Albawaba With the crisis in Syria seemingly never ending, the question of Russia’s influence in the world has resurfaced. The former Soviet state has been playing its hand [...]

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CIA’s Global Response Staff “scorpions”emerging from shadows after incidents in Libya and Pakistan

December 26, 2012

Source: Washington Post The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Department facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive arsenal: a secret security force created after the Sept. 11, [...]

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CIA and Nigeria’s Underdevelopment

December 19, 2012

Source: This Day Live Nations always compete fiercer than businesses compete. Doing everything to scuffle and derail potential challengers, has been the rule of the game. For nations ahead in the game, they take the battle to potential attacker’s territory. And that’s what the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was established to do. So, basing this [...]

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IAF Assassinates Hamas Terror Wing Commander; Hamas: ‘This is Open War’

November 14, 2012

Source: Arutz Sheva The IAF fired a missile at a car in Gaza Wednesday, killing the commander of Hamas’s “military” terror wing, Ahmed Jaabari. Israel’s TV Channel 2 says his son was also killed. There are reports that Raed al-Atar, Commander of Hamas’s southern division, has also been killed. Hamas responded by saying that it [...]

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Poland found explosives on wreckage of president’s plane: report

October 30, 2012

Source: Reuters Polish investigators found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the government jet that crashed in Russia two years ago, killing Poland’s president and 95 others, daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Tuesday. Without citing sources, the newspaper said prosecutors and explosive experts who examined the remains of the plane in Russia found signs of [...]

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Hezbollah or Mossad sabotage: Crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 409

October 1, 2012

Source: The Daily Star Sources speaking to Stratfor intelligence business suggested causes other than the official explanation of pilot error in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 409 in 2010 off the coast of Lebanon, emails released by WikiLeaks show. The documents released show Stratfor investigator Reva Bhalla received contradictory explanations for the crash that [...]

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