Just in time for Mitt Romney’s trip to Israel – where he is reported to be focused mainly on not making a fool of himself before the media, London-style – the AP dropped a bombshell disguised as an article on...
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Terrorism versus Fake Terrorism
One of the big, if largely unspoken, issues in counterterrorism is the considerable role played by intelligence agencies in manipulating terrorist groups – penetrating their cells, confusing them, sometimes wrecking them altogether. This sort of thing, termed provocation by insiders,...
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A Bombing in Burgas
Another suicide bombing in Europe, this time in – of all places – Bulgaria. Yesterday, an as-yet-unidentified bomber got on a bus filled with Israeli tourists and killed himself, five tourists (earlier reports said six but this morning Israeli authorities have...
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SHAMROCK 2.0?
When I was an NSA officer my co-workers and I always found it amusing to laugh at the high-silliness Hollywood portrayals of No Such Agency (as we used to call it), monitoring average Americans in the minutiae of their daily...
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Droning on …
Being older than my mid-20s I can remember when drones – the popular term for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – were considered somewhat controversial. Since, let’s face it, using little planes without pilots to watch the world and kill people...
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They’re not kidding. Really.
For all the endless discussions in Western media about Iran – will they get bombed today, or more like in the fall? – the issue of ideology is customarily lacking. Too little effort is expended by writers and pundits on...
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Is it still a “conspiracy theory” when they admit it?
Go, go, go said the bird: humankind cannot bear very much reality – T.S. Eliot I’m beginning to think the wheels may be coming off the whole post-modern Western enterprise. Things which are never supposed to be admitted in polite...
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Was Tito really Tito?
(Although this blog deals largely with current events it will occasionally delve into historical topics …. because that’s how I roll.) [caption id="attachment_25" align="alignleft" width="148"] Who got the last laugh?[/caption] First, we’re talking about the longtime Yugoslav leader, born Josip...
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Algeria – The Ugly Truth
What if everything you know is wrong? What if what you’ve been told is international terrorism, Al-Qa’ida even, really …. isn’t? The world is a complex place. More complex than the media usually allows. Seldom does the MSM deal with...
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Your mission, if you choose to accept it …
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Espionage is a mysterious thing by design. Practitioners generally keep quiet, especially if they are old school (per the old MOSSAD curse: “May we read about you in the newspapers!”). Virtually since the dawn of civilization it has been the...