Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad’s secret war – Times Online

Posted by Matt in February 20th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Israel, Intelligence, Luxury Hotel, Mastermind, Meir Dagan, Mossad, Planning A Trip, Secret War, Tel Aviv, War Times

Mossad had received intelligence that Mabhouh was planning a trip to Dubai and they were preparing an operation to assassinate him there, off-guard in a luxury hotel. The team had already rehearsed, using a hotel in Tel Aviv as a training ground without alerting its owners.
Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad’s secret war – [...]

Flashpoint recipe: Mix Russia, Islam, border war

Posted by Matt in February 16th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Islam, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Border War, Caucasus, Conflict, eurasia, Flashpoint, Intelligence, Islam, Islamic Interests, Military Experts, Russia, Strategic Location

U.S. military experts say the “most likely flashpoint” in Eurasia has become the Caucasus, a strategic location that is grabbing intelligence attention because of the prospect of a border war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a conflict that not only could draw in Russiabut also Islamic interests there
Flashpoint recipe: Mix Russia, Islam, border war

Egyptian sources: Israel prepares to strike Iran from Gulf and N. Iraq

Posted by Matt in February 3rd, 2010 | 4 comments

Published in Iran, Israel, Middle East, Charting, Egyptian Sources, Espionage, Fifth Fleet, Gulf Waters, IDF, Intelligence, Iran Nuclear, iraq, Israel, Israeli Navy, Nuclear Installations, Persian Gulf, Shorelines, Special Forces, Special Operations Forces, Terrorism Security

They report that the Israeli Navy together with the US Fifth Fleet have for some weeks been charting Persian Gulf waters and Iranian shorelines in preparation for attacks by Israeli naval and special operations forces.
IDF intelligence and special forces officers, they also say, have been marking out routes for their air and ground forces to [...]

US intelligence finds 5,000 Hizballah trained to seize Galilee towns

Posted by Matt in February 1st, 2010 | no comment

Published in Israel, Middle East, Border, Brigades, Espionage, Galilee, Hamas, hezbollah, Hizballah, Intelligence, Iran, Jewish State, Organizing, Sectors, Syria, Terrorism Security, Uprising

Jones was not talking out of the top of his head, but on the strength of solid US intelligence gathered over months on detailed war plans Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas have drawn up to send five Hizballah brigades sweeping across the border to seize five sectors of Galilee, while also organizing a massive Israeli-Arab [...]

The Secret Nuclear Dossier: Intelligence from Tehran Elevates Concern in the West

Posted by Matt in January 25th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Bomb, Daneshjoo, Defense Ministry, Intelligence, Iran Nuclear, Leadership, Military Branch, Nuclear Program, Nuclear Research, Secret Tests, Secret Weapons, Spiegel, Suspicous, Technology, tehran

The West has long been suspicous of Iran’s nuclear program. SPIEGEL has obtained new documents on secret tests and leadership structures that call into question Tehran’s claims to be exclusively interested in the peaceful use of the technology.
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According to the classified document, there is a secret military branch of Iran’s nuclear research program that answers [...]

DEBKAfile – New Israeli unmanned wonder boat deployed in Persian Gulf

Posted by Matt in December 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Military Tech, Capabilities, Capitals, Chief Of Staff, Debkafile, Gaby Ashkenazi, India, Intelligence, Israel, Lt, Military Sources, Naval Experts, Persian Gulf, Shark, Singapore Navy, Sources Report, South-Korea, Stealth, Sv, warships

The first unmanned stealth craft on the seas, designated Protector SV or Death Shark, recently deployed in the Persian Gulf, is in high demand after its successful performance with the Singapore Navy. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that India and South Korea asked Israel’s Rafael to build craft to their specifications when chief of staff, Lt. [...]

How to Remain a Great Power | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in November 20th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Geopolitical, Circumstances, Combat Readiness, Constantinople, Decades, Edward Luttwak, Foreign Policy, Grand Strategy, Intelligence, Mentality, Probability, Texts, Time Train, United States

I’ve spent the past two decades poring over these texts to compile a study of Byzantine grand strategy. The United States would do well to heed the following seven lessons if it wishes to remain a great power:
I. Avoid war by every possible means, in all possible circumstances, but always act as if war might [...]

Der Spiegel: Mossad hacked Syrian computer to uncover nuclear site – Haaretz – Israel News

Posted by Matt in November 2nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Syria, Der Spiegel, Espionage, German Magazine Der, Intelligence, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Israel News, Kensington, Malware, Mossad Agents, Nuclear Facility, Nuclear Program, Spiegel, Staying In London, Syria, Syrian Computer, Syrian Official, Trojan Horse Programs, Trojan Programs, Upscale Neighborhood

The Mossad espionage agency used Trojan Horse programs to gather intelligence about a nuclear facility in Syria that the Israel Defense Forces destroyed in 2007, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported yesterday.
According to the magazine, Mossad agents planted the malware on the computer of a Syrian official while he was staying in London, at a [...]

Are Britain’s Muslims being unfairly targeted?

Posted by Matt in November 1st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Britain, Islam, Civil Liberties Groups, Guardian Newspaper, Innocent, Intelligence, Muslim Extremism, Muslims, Program Spy

The UK’s Prevent program faces serious criticism from Muslims and civil liberties groups.
Most recently a report in the Guardian newspaper last month said that the program was being used to spy on innocent Muslims. Prevent-funded projects, claimed the paper, are being used to gather general intelligence on Muslims, with police accused of pressuring community workers [...]

DEBKAfile – Israeli urgently orders two stealth corvettes from Germany

Posted by Matt in October 27th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Coastal Infrastructure, Corvettes, Debkafile, Fears, Germany Military, Infrastructure Facilities, Intelligence, Israel, Mediterranean Sea, Military Sources, Naval Bases, Regional War, Risk, Sources Report, Stealth, submarines, Syria, warships

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the two corvettes are needed to meet the build-up of Iranian submarines and Syria warships in the Mediterranean Sea and defend coastal infrastructure facilities such as power stations and naval bases which Israel intelligence fears will be at risk in a regional war.
DEBKAfile – Israeli urgently orders two stealth corvettes [...]