Some hours before HAMAS operation (5.40 am on Saturday October 7), Shin Bet monitoring agents detected a bizarre activity on some on line militant networks inside Gaza Strip. An alert was sent to IDF soldiers serving at military camps and forward operating bases (FOB) around Gaza Strip but for some unknown reasons the warning was not read or tranformed into action.Shortly before the attack, Hamas members disguised as farmers approached the fence area. The first phase included the s...

With the end of the war with Russia in sight, Osama and the men around him began to dream of a global Jihad to spread the message of God and to bring the world under Islamic rule. Osama’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam, a leading Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, was the first to recognize the necessity for an organized foundation from which believers could launch their struggle for a perfect Islamic world.

Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin sent a letter to the UN Security Council stating that three Turkish aid organizations were front lines for the country's intelligence service to send arms and supplies to extremists in Syria. "The main supplier of arms and military equipment to ISIL fighters is Turkey, which does so through non-governmental organizations," he said.Churkin accused the Besar Foundation, the Iyilikder Foundation and the Foundation for Human Right...

In an August 17 (2007) meeting, Israeli Mossad Chief Meir Dagan thanked Under Secretary Burns for America’s support of Israel as evidenced by the previous day’s signing of an MOU that provides Israel with USD 30 billion in security assistance from 2008-2018.   Dagan reviewed Israel’s five-pillar strategy concerning Iran’s nuclear program, stressed that Iran is economically vulnerable, and pressed for more activity with Iran’s minority groups aimed at regime change....

Military action is necessary to halt the spread of the ISIS “cancer,” said President Obama. In his much anticipated address, he called for expanded airstrikes across Iraq and Syria, and new measures to arm and train Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces.   Missing from the chorus of outrage, however, has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence strategy in empowering and even directly sponsoring the very same virul...

Hezbollah operatives are expert at gaining entry to their target locations through extremely subtle infiltration. This should not surprise, as many Hezbollah operatives receive sophisticated training both in Lebanon and in Iran from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) al-Quds Brigades. Members of a Hezbollah cell operating in Singapore in the late 1990s and into 2000 entered using a visa-waiver program similar to the one that rece...

  In a campaign-style appearance in Boca Raton, Donald Trump told the Tea Party crowd that he's a real conservative -- he's anti-tax, pro-life, pro-gun, and will "fight to get rid of Obamacare." Three elderly people fainted at the rally. We hope they swooned for the April sun, not at Trump's convictions. It shouldn't  be a surprise that Trump has latched onto the far-right's  birtherism. As he enters his fourth decade as a professio...

Since its establishment in the early 1980s, Hizbollah has viewed Israel as a bitter foe to be destroyed. With this mindset, it waged a stubborn military struggle against the presence of the Israeli military in Lebanon until Israel’s withdrawal from the security zone in May 2000.   As part of this campaign, Hizbollah gathered intelligence on the security forces operating in Lebanon. Analysis of Hizbollah’s activities in those years suggests that the information was gath...

Imad Mughniyeh was born in 1962 in the Lebanese Shi’ite village of Tayr Dibba to a poor family of olive and lemon harvesters. He moved to Beirut as a child and despite his religious affiliation, he became active in the predominantly Sunni Palestinian al-Fatah movement.In Lebanese Palestinian reports, Mughniyeh was even described as participating in the unit of bodyguards protecting then-PLO chief Yasser Arafat. But after the PLO chairman and his fighters were forced to leave Lebano...

The group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS) has carried out ethnic cleansing on a historic scale in northern Iraq. IS has systematically targeted non-Arab and non-Sunni Muslim communities, killing or abducting hundreds, possibly thousands, and forcing more than 830,000 others to flee the areas it has captured since 10 June 2014.Ethnic and religious minorities – Assyrian Christians, Turkmen Shi’a, Shabak Shi’a, Yezidis, Kakai and Sabean Mandaeans – have lived together in the ...

  The Islamic State announced several months ago that it was “annexing” territory in Algeria (Wilayat al-Jazair), Libya (Wilayat al-Barqah, Wilayat al-Tarabulus and Wilayat al-Fizan), Sinai (Wilayat Sinai), Saudi Arabia (Wilayat al-Haramayn) and Yemen (Wilayat al-Yaman).   It is likely that the Islamic State plans to pursue a similar approach in Afghanistan and Pakistan following its announcement of accepting pledges of allegiance from former members of th...