Covert Operations

Sahel: Algeria’s Proxy War

May 21, 2013

Source: moroccoboard Who is benefiting from recent MUJAO terrorist attacks in the Sahel? What party wants to weaken the resolve of the Touareg people and undermine the Azawadi rights to local rule in a unified Mali? To answer these questions, Western diplomats need to take a closer look at the long-term effects of the MUJAO’s military [...]

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How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution

May 17, 2013

Source: FT Related : Qatar bankrolls Syrian revolt with cash and arms A short drive from the rising skyscrapers of Doha’s West Bay, emblems of the once-sleepy Qatari capital’s frenetic growth, the three-starred flag of the Syrian revolution can be seen fluttering over a modern villa guarded by police cars. The villa is the new [...]

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U.S. could use cyberattack on Syrian air defenses

May 16, 2013

Editor’s Note: Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i , Israel’s high-tech whiz kids, Unit 8200, and W32.Flame and Israel invests millions in drive for elite ‘cyber warriors’: Unit 8200 Source: USA Today The Pentagon has cyberattack capabilities that allow the U.S. military to help blind Syrian air defenses without firing a shot, according to military analysts. “One [...]

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US Sens: Pentagon Attempting to ‘Rewrite the Constitution’

May 16, 2013

Editor’s Note: Pentagon is ‘Rewriting the Constitution’ U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect: Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’ Source: Defense News US senators blasted senior Pentagon legal officials Thursday for suggesting the 2001-passed measure authorizing the war on al-Qaida would justify American ground operations anywhere in the world. The Obama administration’s armed [...]

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US smuggling weapons to Syrian rebels: The real Benghazi story

May 15, 2013

Source: Asia Tribune There is a ‘side story’ going on in the American media – both the electronic and print about the Islamist jihadists lethal attack on the American ‘post’ in Benghazi, Libya last September 11 which killed American ambassador Christopher Steven and three others; The emphasis and the debate is on why the event [...]

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CIS Security Services to track Syria mercenaries – FSB

May 15, 2013

Source: Indrus The security services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states will be closely monitoring the movement of mercenaries from CIS nations fighting in Syria, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said on Wednesday. According to the FSB, some 200 mercenaries from Russia, as well as from CIS member states [...]

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Qatar and CIA tighten coordination of arms flows to Syria

May 14, 2013

Source: Chicago Tribune Qatar, which has taken a lead in arming the Syrian opposition, is coordinating with the CIA and has tightened control of the arms flow to keep weapons out of the hands of al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters, according to rebels and officials familiar with the operation. With Britain and France discussing lifting an [...]

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The ultra-lethal Special Forces unit few have ever heard of

May 12, 2013

Source: Examiner In the wake of the special congressional hearings on the jihadist terror attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, the American people have become inundated with a bevy of brain-dizzying acronyms such as FEST (Foreign Emergency Support Team), SEAL (Sea, Air, Land), SOF (Special Operations Forces) and FAST [...]

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CIA and MI6 ‘GHOST MONEY’ Fueling Afghanistan’s Opium drug trade and guerrilla warfare in Syria

May 12, 2013

Source: HP Afghan president Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticised for taking ‘ghost money’ from the CIA and MI6. The sums are inevitably unknown, for the usual reasons of ‘national security’, but are estimated to have been tens of millions of dollars. While this is nowhere near the eye-bleeding $12billion shipped over to Iraq on [...]

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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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Iranian Terror Goes Global: Bold New Tactics For Tehran’s Shadowy Quds Forces

May 7, 2013

Source: IBT A terrorism case in the East African country of Kenya came to a close on Monday with two suspects convicted of participating in a scheme to set off explosions in several cities. At first glance, the case doesn’t appear to be an exceptional one. Kenya has suffered numerous attacks from the extremist group [...]

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American/Saudi Covert Operations In Chechnya : BCCI,Ricin, Diamonds, Stingers

April 30, 2013

Source: Sri Lanka Guardian As the Cold War between the USSR and the USA drew down in the early 1990’s, organizations/institutions used to fund proxy wars—and destabilization efforts–between the two Empires became exposed. With the Cold War ostensibly over, the corrupt and illegal actions of such groups could no longer be ignored, or covered up, [...]

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Narco State: Karzai’s Office Gets Bags Full Of C.I.A. Cash

April 28, 2013

Editor’s Note: Afghanistan: C.I.A., U.S. Special Operation Forces, Bags of Dollar Bills and Militia Proxy Forces Source: NYT For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central [...]

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We tried to weaponize the weather

April 27, 2013

Source: Salon The years between the ﬁrst hydrogen bomb tests and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963 saw more than just increased anxiety about the eﬀects of nuclear testing on weather. They also saw increased interest in large-scale, purposeful environmental modiﬁcation. Most climate modiﬁcation enthusiasts spoke of increasing global temperatures, in the hopes that [...]

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Western backed Al-Qaeda battles for control of Assad’s chemical weapons plant

April 27, 2013

Source: Telegraph Set amid the rolling plains outside Aleppo, the town of al-Safira looks just like another vicious battleground in Syria’s civil war. On one side are lightly-armed rebels, on the other are government troops, and in between is a hotly-contested no-man’s land of bombed-out homes and burned-out military vehicles. The fight for al-Safira is [...]

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Blowback: Qatar faces backlash among rebel groups in Syria

April 24, 2013

Source: TDS In a war-battered suburb of Damascus, a commander for one of the smaller nationalist brigades fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad grumbles about the lack of ammunition for his men. He blames Qatar, saying the oil-rich Gulf state directs its backing to rebels with a more Islamist ideology. Tiny, U.S.-allied Qatar has emerged as one of [...]

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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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JSOC M.E.K. operatives in Iran?

April 22, 2013

Our men in Iran? Source: New Yorker From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran. The site, some sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas, was once used for nuclear testing, and now includes a [...]

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Filmmaker claims CIA kept innocent man jailed to cover up drug trafficking

April 22, 2013

Source: Wired UK This is a story about an extreme miscarriage of justice. It involves the CIA, the US Army and a shitload of cocaine.” “If you want to, you can question anything to death,” says director Eric Stacey, his melodic Californian drawl coming slow and steady down the line. “But my point of view [...]

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Underwater Internet Cable Cutting in Cyber Warfare

April 22, 2013

Source: INN In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the new phenomenon of cyber warfare, its methods, and its ramifications. In essence there are three objectives that can be achieved by cyber-offensive activities: espionage (infiltrating the target’s information storage systems and stealing information), denial of service attacks (preventing Internet usage), and sabotage (infiltrating [...]

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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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By Way of Deception: Former Israeli Intelligence Operatives Now Working For Hedge Funds

April 18, 2013

Source: Forbes A company staffed with former operatives of Israel’s top intelligence agencies and founded with the help of the former head of the Mossad is being used by hedge funds looking for an edge in the financial markets. Kela Israeli Intelligence has increasingly become a popular service on Wall Street. The firm employs about [...]

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NYPD’s War on Terror : Intelligence Division of the Pentagon, FBI and CIA

April 16, 2013

Source: NY Mag There are now New York City police officers stationed in London working with New Scotland Yard; in Lyons at the headquarters of Interpol; and in Hamburg, Tel Aviv, and Toronto. There are also two cops on assignment at FBI headquarters in Washington, and New York detectives have traveled to Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen, [...]

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Libyan arms controlled by non-state actors

April 15, 2013

Editor’s Note: Part of the CIA Syria Operation? US and Europe in ‘major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb’, Libya transporting weapons and fighters to Syria: Americans, Moroccans, Libyans, Egyptians, Bosnians fighting alongside rebel forces and Largest Shipload of Libyan Weapons Heading to Armed Groups in Syria Source: Ahram The proliferation of weapons from [...]

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Opium Production in Afghanistan Increases

April 15, 2013

Editor’s Note: Funding clandestine warfare in Syria ? Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fighting In Syria Funded by Afghanistan Drug Trafficking Source: Stripes Opium cultivation is expected to increase across Afghanistan, and in several areas where the crop had previously been eliminated production has resumed, according to a U.N. report released Monday. Despite years of efforts by [...]

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Clandestine Warfare:Syria’s war to get dirtier than ever

April 14, 2013

Source: HS From small clandestine offices in countries as far flung as Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Croatia, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers have acted as brokers and overseers of a massive arms shipment programme to Syria’s opposition rebels. With the operation shrouded in secrecy, the CIA declines to comment publicly on the arms supply. [...]

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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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Saudi Arabia Main Sponsor of Al-Nusra Terrorists in Syria

April 13, 2013

Source: ABNA It is the Saudi intelligence apparatus headed by Prince Bandar bin Sultan that supports al-Nusra Front which commits heinous crimes against the Syrian nation with murder, slaughter and explosions, the al-Manar quoted informed sources as saying. Majority of the criminal ringleaders of al-Nusra front, who are carrying out terrorist activities in Syria, had [...]

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