Last week this blog reported the remarkable case of two Iranian spies in Sarajevo who had been ordered to leave Bosnia by the end of April yet who simply had not done as ordered by Bosnian authorities. My detailed post...
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Going, going, gone … at last
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Sexual Predator, Secret Agent, Bishop
Inconveniently close to Orthodox Easter, the Serbian Orthodox Church has been rocked by a salacious and disturbing scandal involving one of its more prominent senior clerics. In late April it was revealed that 75 year-old Bishop Vasilije Kacavenda of the...
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The budding Spywar over Tamerlan Tsarnayev
Last week I did a long report on what Russian intelligence knew about Tamerlan Tsarnayev, based on Irina Gordiyenko’s report in Novaya Gazeta, which is pretty much Russia’s last investigative newspaper. Not surprisingly, Gordiyenko’s account, which derived heavily from Dagestan-based...
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Bosnia tells Iranian spies to leave …. to no avail
Last month, Bosnia-Hercegovina worked up its courage and told two Iranian spies serving as “diplomats” at their embassy in Sarajevo to leave the country by the end of April. Given the worrying extent of Iranian subversion and espionage in Bosnia,...
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Who needs the Flying Elvises?
Today is Holy Saturday, the end of Lent and the last day before Pascha, the term Orthodox Christians use for Easter. As a shout-out to my brothers and sisters in Christ on this very special weekend, I give you a...
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What did Russian intelligence know about Tamerlan Tsarnayev?
One of the key questions in the investigation into the brothers Tsarnayev is what intelligence agencies knew about them, especially Tamerlan, before the Boston attack on 15 April. There are lots of rumors swirling around, and it’s clear that the...