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Other rumbles in the Iran nuclear storm
In the sound and fury following the U.N. nuclear governors’ censure of Iran last week for its cover-up of a second uranium enrichment site, and Tehran’s rejection of a nuclear cooperation deal with world powers, a broader, festering issue was obscured.
That is the question of “alleged military dimensions” to Iran’s nuclear programme — that is, whether Tehran illicitly coordinated projects to process uranium, test high explosives and revamp the cone of a missile to fit a nuclear payload.
Israel’s “Jewish Division”: Northen Ireland redux?
By Dan Williams
A Reuters investigation into how the Israeli domestic intelligence service Shin Bet is tackling threats from Jewish ultranationalists has raised intriguing parallels with Britain’s handling of the sectarian “troubles” in Northern Ireland.
Radical Jewish settlers who might turn to violence in a bid to wreck Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking are, increasingly, the quarry of the Shin Bet’s shadowy “Jewish Division”, whose operatives draw on a range of spying and interrogation tactics.
very interesting
I wonder might the militant settlers ever go as far as the loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland and start mounting large scale attacks.
Al Qaeda and the financial crisis
The global financial crisis has become a topic of feverish debate for al Qaeda sympathisers on militant Internet forums.
According to the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors al Qaeda-linked propaganda on the Web and translates it for the benefit of security analysts and counter-terrorism officials, the militant chat rooms have been buzzing for weeks with excited comment.
“Now Sheikh Osama bin Laden has an historic opportunity to crash America completely. Al Qaeda, which has caused America to be ruined economically in Iraq and Afghanistan, has an opportunity to deliver the fatal blow,” wrote a member of a Turkish militant forum recently. “Al Qaeda could bury America into the landfill of history with an operation similar to or greater than September 11.”
In a discussion on al-Hesbah, a password-protected forum linked to al Qaeda, one participant gloated that the U.S. economy is “on the precipice”, SITE reported.
Here’s a link to interesting analysis and overview of the effect of the economic crisis in Africa, Europe, Asia & Latin America.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncate gorized/how-global-is-the-crisis/3543/
Ex-U.S. spy recalls years on no-fly list
Posted by Randall Mikkelsen
ORLANDO, Fla – Decades of passing lie detector tests and the most stringent background checks count little when it comes to the U.S. no-fly terrorist watch list, the Pentagon’s former spy chief recalled on Monday.
Retired Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, once the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a top Homeland Security Department intelligence official, said after he entered the private sector in 2005 he was denied boarding on a flight because his name was on the no-fly list. It has taken him ever since to clear up the confusion.
“It happened three years ago, I just got off the list – Yay!,” Hughes said at a conference of intelligence analysts.
The incidence of Retired Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes,Ten Kennedy, Rep. John Lewis, and others points out the incompetence of the people who manage this list. Where were the bureaucrats when terrorist arrived on the shores of the United States, took flying lessons with no questions asked. Where were the officials when the Twin Towers toppled, the Pentagon hit, and an airlines went down in Pennsylvania. Where was the competence when they mailed a Green Card to ATTA? LOL
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Here you have a prime example of news laundering: El Baradai admits “there is a lot of infiltration by intelligence agencies (in the IAEA)” – see above. A rogue infiltrating analyst writes a biased report that is rejected by the more balanced senior IAEA managers…. then you have ISIS a think tank of 7 people who only write about the Iranian nuclear programme – who pays for their ca $ 2mln/yr payroll? – pick it up, put a seven page gloss and then it is legit. Then Fox News and UK Times and other Murdoch news outlets can report from a so called prestigious think tank on their front pages. Now you see why the Iranians don’t believe a word coming out of the West. You should read the rejected IAEA report and marvel at the ‘it is believed’ and ‘it is understood’ caveats that the mendacious ‘report’ – probably written by one of these infiltrators – contains. Iranian lack of cooperation with IAEA is entirely understandable, they have witnessed and remember how Iraq Survey group ( a UN body) was highjacked by US intelligence agencies in mid 90’s and where that ended.