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- AL QAEDA MAY TOPPLE YEMEN GOVERNMENT (click HERE)
- RARE UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS- U.S. GLOBAL ATTACKS ON AL QAEDA BEGUN (click HERE)
- CIA SHOULD CONDUCT DOMESTIC COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INSIDE AMERICA (click HERE)
- IRANIAN ASSASSINATIONS OPEN CIA RECRUITMENT OPPORTUNITY (check HERE)
- OUTSIDE OPPOSITION FIGHTERS MAY TOPPLE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT (click HERE)
- INSTANT INTELLIGENCE ON EVERY SPY AGENCY ON EARTH (click HERE)
- BOOK STUDIES TOP SECRET INFO LEAKS (click HERE)
- BECOME AN EXPERT ON THE HAQQANI TERRORIST NETWORK (click HERE)
- "PAPERLESS ARCHIVES" GREAT OSING RESOURCE (click HERE)
- MURDER OF CIA OFFICERS RIGHTFULLY AVENGED (click HERE)
- GLOBAL RESEARCH GOOD SOURCE OF OSINT INFO (click HERE)
- CONSIDER A CIA CAREER (click HERE)
- 7 VALUABLE OSINT COLLECTION SITES (click HERE)
- PEACE TALKS WITH TALIBAN PENDING (click HERE)
- THE LARGEST CIA BOOKSTORE ANYWHERE, IS HERE! (click HERE)
- HOW CIA INFILTRATES AL QAIDA DEMONSTRATED (click HERE)
- BECOME AN EXPERT ON THE CIA (click HERE)
- BOOKS REVEAL CIA SPY RECRUITMENT IN IRAN (click HERE)
- COLLISION COURSE BETWEEN IRAN, ISRAEL AND THE U.S. (click HERE)
- FIVE TOP OSINT FOREIGN NEWSPAPER RESOURCES (click HERE)
- OSINT NEWS POLL: 55% RESPONDENTS THINK IRAN-U.S. NAVAL WAR "LIKELY" TO "IT WILL HAPPEN" (click HERE)
- CIA AND DEFENSE INTEL AGENCY NEED "CYBER COUNTERINTELLIGENCE GROUP (CCG)" (click HERE)
- RETIRED CIA SPY REVEALS ESPIONAGE TRADECRAFT (click HERE)
- NSA'S SUPER-SECRET ECHELON HUNTS DOWN TERRORISTS (click HERE)
- PAKISTANI MILITANTS TO JOIN TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN (click HERE)
- PAKISTANI STUDENT VISA PROGRAM A SECURITY THREAT (click HERE)
- "REWARDS FOR JUSTICE" PROGRAM OFFERS BOUNTIES ON TERRORISTS (click HERE)
- LIKELIHOOD OF NAVAL WAR BETWEEN U.S. AND IRAN (click HERE)
- INTELLIGENCE ANALYST POSITION AVAILABLE (click HERE)
- WHITE HOUSE CIA LEAK MADE ALL AMERICANS "FAIR GAME" (click HERE)
- PLEASE TAKE OUR POLL- WILL RADICAL ISLAM ATTACH THE U.S.? IF "YES", BY WHAT METHOD? (click HERE)
- WIDGETS GIVE INSTANT OSINT DATA (click HERE)
- WILL IRAN'S NUCLEAR BOMB RENEW STAR WARS? (click HERE)
- OSINT NEWS FAVORS SPY THRILLER AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN (click HERE)
- HUGE 42-AISLE CIA LIBRARY(click HERE)
- RETIRED MI5 SPY CHIEF WRITES SPY THRILLERS (click HERE)
- NEW STUXNET TROJAN WORM WORRIES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY (click HERE)
- VIET NAM WAR- AMAZING STATS! (click HERE)
- CIA KILLING AMERICAN "CITIZENS" IN YEMEN (click HERE)
- #1 NATIONAL SECURITY RISK- GLOBAL WARMING + POPULATION EXPLOSION (click HERE)
- CIA DRONE ATTACKS INTENSIFY AGAINST RADICAL ISLAM (click HERE)
- UNSCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS SUGGESTS AL-QAEDA WILL DETONATE NUCLEAR DEVICE INSIDE U.S. (click HERE)
- IRAN'S REAL STRUGGLE IS INTERNAL (click HERE)
- RON PAUL WRONG ABOUT ANWAR AL-AWALKI KILLING (click HERE)
- CIA'S NEW RECRUITS IMPRESSIVE! (click HERE)
- OSINT SUGGESTS U.S./PAKISTANI RELATIONS IMPROVING (click HERE)
- CIA RAMPS UP COVERT OPERATIONS IN YEMEN (click HERE)
- OSINT CRITICAL SOFTWARE! WORKSHOP ON OSINT METHODS & TECHNIQUES (click HERE)
- OSINT NEWS SAYS "GHOST WARS" BEST DESCRIBES CIA'S COVERT INVOLVEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN (click HERE)
- OSINT NEWS, CIA AND SECURITY ANALYSTS PRAISE "IHS JANE'S" (click HERE)
- "EMERGENCY ESSENTIALS" PREPARES FAMILIES TO SURVIVE WHEN CATASTROPHES STRIKE (click HERE)
- TOP SECRET CIA DOCUMENTS RELEASED ON LOCKERBIE PAN AM BOMBING (click HERE)
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- PC HACKERS THREATEN OSINT RESEARCHERS (click HERE)
- "SECRECY NEWS" IS USEFUL OSINT SITE (click HERE)
- 5 REASONS U.S. WILL EXPAND SPECIAL OPS IN YEMEN (click HERE)
- 13 SIGNS THAT A HOME GROWN TERRORIST LIVES NEAR YOU (click HERE)
- CYBER SECURITY TRAINING: 8 GREAT RESOURCES AND 2 TRAINING SEMINARS (click HERE)
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- 5 OSINT SITES ON TERRORISM (click HERE)
- OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE: "CRS REPORT TO CONGRESS" (click HERE)
- OSINT TRAINING & COLLECTION SITES (click HERE)
- 6 TOP OSINT RESOURCES LISTS (click HERE)
- HOW? WHERE? FROM WHO OR WHAT? HOW OSINT NEWS GATHERS INFO (click HERE)
- WHERE WILL AL QAEDA SEEK REVENGE? (click HERE)
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
AL QAEDA MAY TOPPLE YEMEN GOVERNMENT
According to Xinhua news, a huge bomb blast hit the headquarters of the Yemen military intelligence agency in the Al-Mansoura district in Aden, where local military intelligence workers are employed. Happening in this southern port city Monday morning, no immediate reports of casualties were noted by a police officer that Xinhua news interviewed.
The bomb was planted by unknown gunmen and detonated at the main gate of the building, shattering the windows of some residential buildings nearby. The intelligence agency was partially damaged and local military and government officials said that militants of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were likely behind the attack (Note: We offer you the book, "High-Value Target: Countering Al Qaeda in Yemen", which offers a diplomats ideas on how to confront the terrorist threat in Yemen).
Security alerts were raised and extra checkpoints on main roads and entrances across the port city of Aden were set up. Meanwhile, the death toll from Sunday's fighting that took place between AL-Qaida militants and government forces in the neighboring southern province of Abyan jumped to 80 army soldiers and 27 terrorists, local medics and military officials told Xinhua on Monday.
OSINT News believes Yemen is and has been on the brink of toppling due to Al Qaeda's presence. AQAP is taking full advantage of the country's political and economic hardships. There's a civil war waging in the North, a secessionist movement in the South, and Al Qaeda is having no problem recruiting the masses of disenfranchised citizens of Yemen. Economic failings and a government full of corruption is also bolstering Al Qaeda's effectiveness.
Yemen needs internal security... but it's absent. The criteria for a failed state. Yemen needs to be pulled back from the brink and the resurgence of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula must be stopped, but the southern secessionist movement and the civil war in Saada will prove this task difficult.
According to the article "AQAP Vows To Control Red Sea Gate (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula )" from APS Diplomat News Service, South Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Sa'id al-Shehri on Feb. 8 vowed to control Bab al-Mandab, the southern gate to the Red Sea. He claimed credit for the failed Dec. 25 attack on the passenger jet approaching Detroit and called for further attacks against US and Jewish interests.
The article further mentioned that when addressing the Muslim world and the GCC countries, Shehri said US and "crusader" interests were everywhere and stressed, "The Christians, the Jews, and the treacherous apostate rulers have pounced on you. You have no other way out from this plight than to wage jihad" (holy war). Further Reading:
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The bomb was planted by unknown gunmen and detonated at the main gate of the building, shattering the windows of some residential buildings nearby. The intelligence agency was partially damaged and local military and government officials said that militants of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were likely behind the attack (Note: We offer you the book, "High-Value Target: Countering Al Qaeda in Yemen", which offers a diplomats ideas on how to confront the terrorist threat in Yemen).
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OSINT News believes Yemen is and has been on the brink of toppling due to Al Qaeda's presence. AQAP is taking full advantage of the country's political and economic hardships. There's a civil war waging in the North, a secessionist movement in the South, and Al Qaeda is having no problem recruiting the masses of disenfranchised citizens of Yemen. Economic failings and a government full of corruption is also bolstering Al Qaeda's effectiveness.
Yemen needs internal security... but it's absent. The criteria for a failed state. Yemen needs to be pulled back from the brink and the resurgence of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula must be stopped, but the southern secessionist movement and the civil war in Saada will prove this task difficult.
According to the article "AQAP Vows To Control Red Sea Gate (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula )" from APS Diplomat News Service, South Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Sa'id al-Shehri on Feb. 8 vowed to control Bab al-Mandab, the southern gate to the Red Sea. He claimed credit for the failed Dec. 25 attack on the passenger jet approaching Detroit and called for further attacks against US and Jewish interests.
The article further mentioned that when addressing the Muslim world and the GCC countries, Shehri said US and "crusader" interests were everywhere and stressed, "The Christians, the Jews, and the treacherous apostate rulers have pounced on you. You have no other way out from this plight than to wage jihad" (holy war). Further Reading:
Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the secure Bpath Mail Form
Thursday, March 8, 2012
RARE UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS- GLOBAL U.S. ATTACKS ON AL QAEDA BEGUN
Admiral William H. McRaven reported yesterday that U.S. special operations forces are engaged in over 100 countries worldwide. McRaven is commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and he recently testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"In significant ways, our forces are creating visible and dramatic effects of the greatest magnitude across the globe," Adm. McRaven said in the 2012 USSOCOM report. OSINT News has his 22-page posture statement, which is unclassified- click Posture Statement to view it in its entirety.
It appears that small units with highly-lethal, hi-tech equipment will replace armored Marine divisions. McRaven spoke of intense interagency cooperation to carry these missions out and also added that these operations already have had and will continue to have immediate and observable evidence of their effectiveness for public consumption. They will be carried out in a lightning-strike fashion, since they already have had tremendous effects upon our enemies’ networks throughout the world.
Yes, the U.S. is applying a new global fighting stratagem against radical Islam and affiliated terrorist groups…not upon Muslims.
OSINT News favors this new strategy, for the carrot and stick approach is much better than applying either methodology by itself. Coupled with non-circuitous physical attacks against dangerous adversaries, America will continue to empower host nations to defend themselves while providing support to humanitarian agencies and while engaging key populations. The U.S. will continue to build partnerships with nations where our non-state enemies hide and help these nations build domestic security and maintain rule of law, address local needs, and advance ideas that discredit and defeat the appeal of violent extremism.
Al Qaeda and other extremist networks are franchising their ideology and violence in countries around the globe faster than McDonald's is, if you get our drift! This extremist network expansion is increasing in frequency and intensity. So, lightning-strike, in-and-out, lethal attacks by U.S. SOF’s coupled with long-lasting, nation-friendly partnership-building appears to be America’s new stratagem.
An example of this new stratagem can be found in this rare and unclassified "notification of special forces operation" President Obama sent to Congress in January of the rescue of an American in Somalia. He wrote, "At my direction, on January 24, 2012, U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted an operation in Somalia to rescue Ms. Jessica Buchanan, a U.S. citizen. The operation was successfully completed". The report was transmitted to keep the Congress fully informed. Here it is:
Washington, January 26, 2012.
Hon. JOHN BOEHNER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
DEAR MR. SPEAKER: At my direction, on January 24, 2012, U.S.
Special Operations Forces conducted an operation in Somalia to
rescue Ms. Jessica Buchanan, a U.S. citizen. The operation was
successfully completed. Ms. Buchanan was kidnapped in Galcayo,
Somalia on October 25, 2011, by a group linked to Somali pirates
and financiers. Also rescued in the course of the operation was a
Danish national, Poul Hagen Thisted, who was kidnapped with Ms.
Buchanan. The operation was undertaken by a small number of
joint combat-equipped U.S. forces, after we received reliable intelligence
indicating Ms. Buchanan’s location in Somalia along with
that of Mr. Thisted. These forces left Somalia on January 25, 2012.
I directed this action consistent with my responsibility to protect
U.S. citizens both at home and abroad, and in furtherance of U.S.
national security interests, pursuant to my constitutional authority
to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and
Chief Executive.
I am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress
fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution
(Public Law 93–148). I appreciate the support of the Congress in
this action.
Sincerely,
BARACK OBAMA.
Once again, here's the 22-page posture statement made by Adm. McRaven:
POSTURE STATEMENT OF
ADMIRAL WILLIAM H. McRAVEN, USN
COMMANDER, UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND
BEFORE THE 112th CONGRESS SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ON MARCH MARCH 6, 2012
Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the secure Bpath Mail Form
"In significant ways, our forces are creating visible and dramatic effects of the greatest magnitude across the globe," Adm. McRaven said in the 2012 USSOCOM report. OSINT News has his 22-page posture statement, which is unclassified- click Posture Statement to view it in its entirety.
It appears that small units with highly-lethal, hi-tech equipment will replace armored Marine divisions. McRaven spoke of intense interagency cooperation to carry these missions out and also added that these operations already have had and will continue to have immediate and observable evidence of their effectiveness for public consumption. They will be carried out in a lightning-strike fashion, since they already have had tremendous effects upon our enemies’ networks throughout the world.
Yes, the U.S. is applying a new global fighting stratagem against radical Islam and affiliated terrorist groups…not upon Muslims.
OSINT News favors this new strategy, for the carrot and stick approach is much better than applying either methodology by itself. Coupled with non-circuitous physical attacks against dangerous adversaries, America will continue to empower host nations to defend themselves while providing support to humanitarian agencies and while engaging key populations. The U.S. will continue to build partnerships with nations where our non-state enemies hide and help these nations build domestic security and maintain rule of law, address local needs, and advance ideas that discredit and defeat the appeal of violent extremism.
Al Qaeda and other extremist networks are franchising their ideology and violence in countries around the globe faster than McDonald's is, if you get our drift! This extremist network expansion is increasing in frequency and intensity. So, lightning-strike, in-and-out, lethal attacks by U.S. SOF’s coupled with long-lasting, nation-friendly partnership-building appears to be America’s new stratagem.
An example of this new stratagem can be found in this rare and unclassified "notification of special forces operation" President Obama sent to Congress in January of the rescue of an American in Somalia. He wrote, "At my direction, on January 24, 2012, U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted an operation in Somalia to rescue Ms. Jessica Buchanan, a U.S. citizen. The operation was successfully completed". The report was transmitted to keep the Congress fully informed. Here it is:
Washington, January 26, 2012.
Hon. JOHN BOEHNER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
DEAR MR. SPEAKER: At my direction, on January 24, 2012, U.S.
Special Operations Forces conducted an operation in Somalia to
rescue Ms. Jessica Buchanan, a U.S. citizen. The operation was
successfully completed. Ms. Buchanan was kidnapped in Galcayo,
Somalia on October 25, 2011, by a group linked to Somali pirates
and financiers. Also rescued in the course of the operation was a
Danish national, Poul Hagen Thisted, who was kidnapped with Ms.
Buchanan. The operation was undertaken by a small number of
joint combat-equipped U.S. forces, after we received reliable intelligence
indicating Ms. Buchanan’s location in Somalia along with
that of Mr. Thisted. These forces left Somalia on January 25, 2012.
I directed this action consistent with my responsibility to protect
U.S. citizens both at home and abroad, and in furtherance of U.S.
national security interests, pursuant to my constitutional authority
to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and
Chief Executive.
I am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress
fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution
(Public Law 93–148). I appreciate the support of the Congress in
this action.
Sincerely,
BARACK OBAMA.
Once again, here's the 22-page posture statement made by Adm. McRaven:
POSTURE STATEMENT OF
ADMIRAL WILLIAM H. McRAVEN, USN
COMMANDER, UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND
BEFORE THE 112th CONGRESS SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ON MARCH MARCH 6, 2012
Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the secure Bpath Mail Form
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
CIA SHOULD CONDUCT COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INSIDE AMERICA
One of the beliefs OSINT News espouses is to incorporate Great Britain's MI-5 model into U.S. counterintelligence (CI) and counterterrorism (CT) efforts. Many Americans have a certain paranoia about "Big Brother" encroaching upon their personal freedoms and privacy. However, even though MI-5 has conducted domestic surveillance and intelligence gathering for decades, the representative government in Great Britain hasn't encroached upon the freedoms of the populace. In fact, the service saved thousands of lives during the IRA era and in recent years by disrupting radical Islamist plots.
***Disagreement exists between the law enforcement (FBI) and counterintelligence (CIA) cultures as to who and how domestic intelligence-gathering should be done, if at all. What do you think? Please take the POLL in the upper right-hand margin.
OSINT News believes it should be done, and done by the CIA, not the FBI. In future posts, we will delve more deeply into the need for aspects of Britain's MI-5 model to be adopted into America's CI and CT efforts.
What's your belief in domestic surveillance? Please take the POLL in the upper right- hand margin.
Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the secure Bpath Mail Form
***Disagreement exists between the law enforcement (FBI) and counterintelligence (CIA) cultures as to who and how domestic intelligence-gathering should be done, if at all. What do you think? Please take the POLL in the upper right-hand margin.
OSINT News believes it should be done, and done by the CIA, not the FBI. In future posts, we will delve more deeply into the need for aspects of Britain's MI-5 model to be adopted into America's CI and CT efforts.
What's your belief in domestic surveillance? Please take the POLL in the upper right- hand margin.
Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the secure Bpath Mail Form
Friday, February 24, 2012
IRANIAN ASSASSINATIONS OPEN CIA RECRUITMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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The Iranian assassination attempts, specifically the botched attempt in Azerbaijani, opens up an avenue for the CIA to infiltrate the institutions in Iran. Spy recruitment of Azerbaijani citizens may be easier than one would imagine. Why? Their brothers and sisters living in Iran are surviving under a Persian apartheid. Azerbaijanis are suffering from an unrelentless barrage of racial discriminations- they're not allowed to learn their own language, have their own TV or radio stations, or name their own streets, businesses or even their children under Azerbaijani names. The Iranian regime labels the Azerbaijani language as a "foreign language" and bans its usage without governmental permission!
What an opportunity for the CIA, Mossad, and Western intelligence services to take advantage of and recruit patriotic Azerbaijani's in order to penetrate deep into Iran's discriminating governmental institutions!
What an opportunity for the CIA, Mossad, and Western intelligence services to take advantage of and recruit patriotic Azerbaijani's in order to penetrate deep into Iran's discriminating governmental institutions!
Iran's assassination attempts opens the window of opportunity even more for spy recruitment. A covert battle is being waged between Israel's Mossad and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MISIRI). MISIR is the secret police and primary intelligence agency of Iran, which took over the previous government's security apparatus. It is very well funded and has a history of brutality towards the people of Iran, especially the Azerbaijani's. In 1999, it partook in serial murders of dissident writers and intellectuals and assassinated Iranian political dissidents outside the country.
Currently, a full-scale spy agency covert war is underway- plane crashes, disappearances, cyberwarfare, worldwide bomb attacks...the list grows weekly. Tehran's string of assassination attempts on Israeli diplomats in India, Georgia and Thailand; sticky bombs attached to cars that kill Iranian nuclear experts; the Stuxnet computer worm targeting Iran's uranium-enrichment computer software; Iran's assassination attempt of the Israeli Defence Force's (IDF) representative in India; its assassination attempt of Israeli diplomats in Bangkok, Thailand; Iran's recruitment of Azerbaijan's local thug, Balagardash Dadashev, to kill Israeli school children and teachers in Baku; Mossad's recruitment of the Iranian dissident group Mujahdin-e-Khalq to target and kill Iranian nuclear scientists; the current 11-nation large-scale amphibious wargame (Operation "Bold Alligator") involving 20,000 troops being conducted off the beaches of Camp LeJeune in North Carolina (topographically similar to Iran's beachfront along the Straight of Hormuz); Iran's threats to blockade oil in the Straight of Hormuz...a risky and curious combination of events.
OSINT News feels that Iran's intelligence services can and will continue to use gangsters and local mercenaries inside Azerbaijan, and elsewhere, as proxies to further their aims to kill Israeli’s and Westerners. The ethnic-Iranian community of Azeri, which rests on Iran’s western border, has deep roots with Iran and offers the CIA recruitment opportunities. We can create a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. The CIA, Mossad and other Western intelligence agencies have an opportunity to use this region as a corridor to infiltrate the Iranian society and its institutions. Iran has an embassy in Baku and a consulate-general in Nakhchivan City; likewise, Azerbaijan has an embassy in Tehran and a consulate-general in Tabriz.
Besides the Iranian ubiquitous discrimination of Azerbaijani-Iranian citizens, a seething tension and mistrust exists between the two countries. True, both have had diplomatic relations since 1918, but it’s interesting that Azerbaijan has a visa-free agreement with Turkey, where all visa requirements for Turks entering Azerbaijan have been lifted... but not so for Iranian citizens. In short, Azerbaijan does not trust Iran.
This latest assassination-attempt incident creates opportunities for the CIA to recruit Azerbaijani's. Men from Iran were detained by the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security for planning attacks on Israelis school children and teachers in Baku, adding to Azerbaijan's distrust of Iran. It was Iranian agents who smuggled weapons and equipment to their paid thugs in Azerbaijan.
No visa-free agreement with Iran! Rightfully so, for Azberbaijani diplomats fear an open-border with Iran will trigger a massive influx of Iranian ethnic Azeri refuges into Azberbaijan. Not so with Turkey, thus the gap in Azerbaijani's visa privileges.
The CIA can take advantage of Iran's political and economic
instability, their despise of the Azberbaijan culture, and Azerbaijan's complete lack of trust in Iran's intentions. As Wafa Guluzade, a political commentator close to the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyey, warned, "…planning the murder of prominent foreign citizens in Azerbaijan by a band of terrorists, one of whom [Dadashov] resides in Iran, amounts to 'hostile activity' against our country."
Iran threatened to cut off a critical supply line between Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic if the visa requirements weren’t lifted. The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic could be another excellent corridor for the CIA, Mossad and other Western intelligence services to infiltrate Iran. It is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan and borders Iran to the south and west.
The Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they have retained their ethnic identity.OSINT News proposes that the CIA elicit the help of U.S. college students of Azerbaijani heritage to work for them when they return to their native country. They can be offered extended schooling in America to become future Azerbaijani-American political leaders and partners. It would enhance their country's self-identity and solidify their attachment to the West, which would indirectly make them less dependent on Iran. Also, there are Azerbaijani communities throughout the U.S. and Canada- the CIA could find recruitments among them, to further enhance their self-identity as a sovereign nation.
Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the secure Bpath Mail Form
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
OUTSIDE OPPOSITION FIGHTERS MAY TOPPLE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT
Syria has been an unrelenting obstacle in the Middle East peace process and a thorn in Washington's side when it comes to forging strategic alliances with powers in the region. After 9/11 and Syria's opposition to the War in Iraq, we tried to pressure President Bashar al-Asad's regime to change its policies and bring Syria into the Western political orbit.
According to RT News and other foreign newspapers, the tyrannical Syrian government faces a real threat. Over 10,000 Libyans are reportedly being trained in a closed-off zone in Jordan, and they will shortly sneak into Syria to fight for the opposition. This army is allegedly paid around $1,000 a month by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The Jordan-based AlBawaba news website says most of the gunmen who are being trained are actually part of the Libyan armed opposition, who have not had the chance to lay down arms following the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
The allegations of funding from Riyadh and Doha were not attributed to anyone, but AlBawaba news media did draw attention to the fact that both Saudi Arabia and Qatar actively support the Syrian opposition.
At the same time, several Iranian news sources report that some 50 Turkish officers arrested in Syria last week have confirmed that they were trained by the Israeli Special Forces to carry out insurgent acts against the Syrian government and President Bashar al-Assad.
The arrested officers also, according to Iran’s Fars news agency, admitted to initiating contact with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, inadvertently lending support to the countries’ involvement in the ongoing conflict in Syria.
British MI6 agents have entered the Syrian ground, their Ministry said on Friday. This is the first time such a declaration has come from a ministry. The media have been full of reports about foreign Special Forces training the Syrian opposition since November.
The Israeli DEBKA outlet reported that British and Qatari commandos are instructing the Syrian opposition and supplying them with arms. The French weekly Le Canard Enchaine and Turkish daily Milliyet revealed the presence of French intelligence in the region, also instructing the Free Syrian Army in urban guerrilla techniques. These camps were located in Libya’s Tripoli, southern Turkey and northern Lebanon, read the reports.
The Syrian government has also to deal with Jihadists flocking to the country from neighboring Iraq. According to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, the insurgents are smuggling weaponry across the border to support anti-Assad movement.
The foreign assistance has every chance of going beyond supply and training, analysts say. The Arab League has blocked the initiative that would be most productive to resolve the Syrian crisis peacefully. The League has suspended the observing mission even despite Assad’s approval to extend it. Many connect the League’s decision with the final report provided by the mission head, Sudanese General Mohammed al-Dabi. Al-Dabi dubbed the events in Syria as “violence on both sides” and “active insurgency” instead of “a popular anti-regime uprising.” This might have struck Qatar, which is currently chairing the League, as a bit too pro-Assad.
If you want to learn much more about U.S./Syrian relations and how they evolved over the years, read the book "In The Lions Den" by author Andrew Tabler.
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Tabler was both a witness to and participant in the events of this covert conflict between Syria and the U.S. No other Western journalists were based in Damascus during the time he was there; Tabler was not only watched and censored, but courted by the Syrian government in an attempt to influence his stories to the international community. He gained unique access to the upper echelons of power like no other journalist before him, even accompanying the Syrian president on a state visit to China.
OSINT News recommends "In the Lion's Den" because Tabler captures behind-the-scenes experiences as well as the story of Syria itself post-9/11 and Washington's attempts to craft a "New Middle East." He examines the effects of the the Bush administration's strategy, asking what went wrong, what went right, and where Washington needs to go from here to deal with this volatile Middle Eastern country.
Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the secure Bpath Mail Form
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