Intelligence

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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Afghan Special Operation Forces to Start Conducting Spy Flights

May 15, 2013

Source: USN Afghan special operations will start conducting their own spy missions with new fixed wing aircraft, a top U.S. commando in Afghanistan said Wednesday, adding another critical stepping stone to allow the U.S. to withdraw by 2014. The U.S. has begun supplying Afghan forces with Swiss-made PC-12 planes, and training local forces to conduct [...]

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‘Minority Report’ policing comes to the UK

May 15, 2013

Source: Telegraph Kent Police is using computer software to analyse historic offending and criminal behaviour to try and pinpoint where crimes will happen next. It is an echo of the Tom Cruise science fiction film Minority Report in which “pre-crime” units use psychics to predict future criminals and arrest them before they have even offended. [...]

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Biometrics: A new intelligence discipline-Identity Intelligence Project Office

May 13, 2013

Source: Defense News The intelligence community is pushing to make biometrically enabled intelligence — the art of identifying people by fingerprints, digital mugshots, iris scans or DNA — a regular part of business. Biometrics has evolved dramatically during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and is used in countless manhunts, but the discipline has not been [...]

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Pentagon announces anti-satellite weapons drive

May 8, 2013

Source: IET The US has announced a “long overdue” effort to develop anti-satellite weapons to protect its own space resources. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter yesterday said the U.S. military had launched a drive to safeguard US national security satellites and develop ways to counter the space capabilities of potential adversaries. “We have established, really, [...]

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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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US-TRANSCOM seeking private contractors for African commando transportation

May 7, 2013

Source: Defense Web ZA The United States Army’s Transportation Command (US-TRANSCOM) is looking for private flight contractors to transport commandos from the Joint Special Taskforce Trans-Sahara as they conduct ‘high risk activities’ in 31 African countries. The pre-solicitation notice, issued by the US-TRANSCOM on 1 April, says the contractor will need to conduct air drops, [...]

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Chaos in Libya Threatens Entire Sahel Region

May 6, 2013

Source: Al Monitor How easy it is for world powers to mourn the fatigue that sets in following battles, a weariness owing its existence primarily to the reluctance of their electorates to wage extended wars. One example of this battle fatigue came five months after the end of NATO’s first air campaign against Libya (March 19, 2011); [...]

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Russia set to conduct surveillance flyover to inspect Canada’s military, industrial infrastructure

May 6, 2013

Source: NP The Russians are conducting what has quietly become their annual flyover of key Canadian sites this week, revealing the two countries’ regular surveillance of one another at a time when a spy scandal and Arctic sovereignty have markedly strained relations. Russia has routinely exercised a 10-year-old treaty right to fly over Canada and [...]

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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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Military Photographers Ready to Deploy Around the Globe

April 22, 2013

Source: FAS Just as law enforcement relied upon surveillance cameras and personal photography to enable the prompt identification of the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing, U.S. armed forces increasingly look to the collection of still and motion imagery to support military operations. Combat camera (COMCAM) capabilities support “operational planning, public affairs, information operations, mission assessment, forensic, [...]

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‘Jordan opens skies for IAF drones flying to Syria’

April 22, 2013

Source: JP Jordan has opened two corridors of its airspace to Israeli Air Force drones seeking to monitor the ongoing conflict in Syria, French daily Le Figaro reported on Sunday, citing a Western military source in the Middle East. According to the report, Jordanian King Abdullah made the decision in March during US President Barack Obama’s visit [...]

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‘Israel seeks Turkish airbase to enable Iran strike’

April 20, 2013

Source: TOI When National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror arrives in Turkey on Sunday to discuss compensation for flotilla victims, he will also be seeking to lay the groundwork for the stationing of Israeli fighter jets in an airbase near Ankara, ahead of a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Sunday Times reported. “Until [...]

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200 U.S. soldiers to Jordan could jump to 20,000 to secure chemical weapons

April 19, 2013

Source: UPI U.S. intelligence agencies are looking at whether Syria used small amounts of chemical weapons in its civil war, officials told The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper said four senior U.S. officials referred to “increasing suspicions” within the intelligence community Syrian forces used chemical agents. The Journal said the suspicions were based on witness [...]

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Israel and the electronic war

April 18, 2013

Source: Middle East Monitor Despite the wide scale reaction caused by recent electronic attacks on Israel which targeted ministry websites and government facilities on the internet, it may be asserted that this attack is far from being electronic warfare of significant concern to the government and its strategic think tanks which work around the clock [...]

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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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The illusion of choice

April 15, 2013

Source: Tribune Diversity within human culture and ideology has and will always continue to exist. It is only when this diversity converges and accepts a social system that has values such as equality, justice and freedom as its underlying foundations can the state and its institutions function democratically. Democracy does not mean pressing buttons every [...]

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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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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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Open Secret:Turkish and Western intelligence operatives allowing the flow of jihadist foreign fighters into Syria

April 9, 2013

Source: SacBee/McClatchy For all the Obama administration’s vocal concern about Islamist extremists fighting in Syria, neither U.S. officials nor regional allies have taken significant action to stem the flow of jihadists to rebel ranks. The jihadist pipelines – mainly via Turkey, but also through Jordan and Iraq – are an open secret, according to interviews [...]

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Rift between Baloch militant groups fueled by American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad

April 8, 2013

Source: PO Although some foreign elements have been maintaining unanimity among various Baloch militant groups to continue subversive acts in the province of Balochistan in order to dismember Pakistan, yet besides other insurgent outfits, rift has especially been widened between the leaders of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and United Balochistan Army (UBA) due to personal rivalries and jealousies. Harbiyar Marri’s [...]

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Syrian guerrilla fighters being sent to Iran for training

April 4, 2013

Editor’s Note: Secret/guerrilla warfare is fought on the basis of political ideal that expands into a war of fanaticism, a political religion. The issue is, rag tags militias lack discipline as observed and compared to regular military armies, however guerrilla fighters have high morale, they use all sense of their skills and intelligence,they must rely [...]

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Jihadists are heading to Syria from Tunisia

April 2, 2013

Source: UPI Tunisian jihadists are flocking to Syria to fight alongside Islamist forces to topple the Damascus regime, just as they did in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. There’s a growing fear in the North African country where the pro-democracy uprisings of the so-called Arab Spring were triggered in January 2011 that the militants [...]

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Israel and Azerbaijan: unlikely allies?

April 2, 2013

Source: Guardian In the latest in a series of explosive reports on Israel‘s covert hostilities against Iran, one vigorously denied by both the Israeli government and Baku, Foreign Policy magazine has quoted anonymous US officials saying that Israel has secured access to airbases on Iran’s northern border through its well-nurtured defence alliance with Azerbaijan. “The Israelis have bought an airfield,” a [...]

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Israel’s fake rocks spy on Russian fleet

March 30, 2013

Source: Australian ISRAELI spying equipment has been found hidden in artificial rocks on an uninhabited island opposite the Syrian port of Tartus, where it was being used to monitor Russian naval movements. Three large espionage devices were discovered by fishermen on the tiny Ant Island near a naval base regarded by Moscow as an important strategic [...]

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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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Will Algeria’s army be the dark horse in next election?

March 28, 2013

Source: GP Amid the wrangle over who will be Algeria’s next president, anxieties are stirring about a mighty force that could shake things up, if not take over entirely: the Algerian military. Seventy-nine-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika is the country’s longest-serving president, in office for nearly 14 years. But concerns over his health are mounting as politicians [...]

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Israel Defence Forces planning for confrontation with Egypt

March 26, 2013

Source: MEM Israel Today newspaper has prepared a special report on the Arab armies in the Middle East; its title is telling; “Long Arm in the Region” is a reference to the Israel Defence Forces. It is claimed that the IDF is planning for a confrontation with Egypt. The report has been prepared by the [...]

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