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A Perfectly Framed Assassination in Dubai

Fast forward 18 years to the assassination of Hamas military leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on Jan. 20, and it is a graphic reminder of just how much the world has changed. Nearly the entire hit was recorded on closed-circuit TV cameras, from the time the team arrived at Dubai’s airport to the time the assassins entered [...]

A brief history of Israeli espionage scandals

Here are some previous international scandals involving Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies.
* 1954 – Egypt cracks Israeli Military Intelligence cell of Egyptian Jews who firebombed sites frequented by Westerners to embarrass Cairo and stop it nationalizing the Suez Canal. Two are hanged, one commits suicide and six others are jailed. Israeli Defense Minister Pinhas [...]

Landrieu Break-In: Domestic BlackOp?

Here’s some interesting reading that warrants some follow-up investigating…
Last week’s breakin at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office in the New Orleans Federal Building was more than it seemed, much more.  All of the 4 arrested had been trained by the CIA and, possibly, Israel.  One arrested, Stan Dai, is listed as an Operations Officer of the Department of [...]

Israel to Build Barrier Along Egyptian Frontier

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans on Sunday to erect a barrier along part of Israel’s border with Egypt and install advanced surveillance equipment to keep out illegal migrants and militants.
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Israel is also building a controversial barrier in and around the occupied West Bank. It says the razor-tipped fences and towering concrete walls are needed [...]

War, American-style

As 2010 begins in turmoil, 10 questions to ask about U.S. military presence in distant lands.
Let’s peer into the future, and consider just what the American way of war might have in store for us in 2010. Here are 10 questions, the answers to which might offer reasonable hints as to just how much U.S. [...]

The Senator from Israel Aims to Kill Health Care Insurance Reform in America

Speculation about Lieberman’s motives has focused on his connections to the insurance industry in Connecticut, home to 72 insurance companies with more than 65,000 employees, the highest concentration of insurance industry jobs in the U.S., and an annual payroll of more than $6 billion in 2007, according to report by Janet Kaminski, an attorney with [...]

Richard Goldstone: Israel’s missed opportunity

In Gaza, I was surprised and shocked by the destruction and misery there. I had not expected it. I did not anticipate that the IDF would have targeted civilians and civilian objects. I did not anticipate seeing the vast destruction of the economic infrastructure of Gaza including its agricultural lands, industrial factories, water supply and [...]

NASA investigation opened doors to espionage probe

The espionage investigation of the Maryland scientist charged with attempting to pass the nation’s most guarded secrets to Israel was triggered by a NASA inspector general probe into Stewart Nozette’s technology company, a source with knowledge of the investigation said.
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In 2006, the NASA inspector general’s office began an investigation into Nozette’s Alliance for Competitive Technology. [...]

Spy Arrest In U.S. Adds To Israel’s Woes

Israeli intelligence has been caught running several espionage operations against the United States that have antagonized many officials in the U.S. intelligence community.
The most damaging of these came in November 1985 with the arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian analyst with the U.S. Navy who from May 1984 had passed vast amounts of top-secret material [...]

Israel will not allow war crime trials over Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would not allow its citizens to be tried for alleged war crimes over the Gaza war and that adopting a damning UN report on the offensive endangered the stalled peace process.
via Israel will not allow war crime trials over Gaza: PM.
Israel signed the Rome Treaty on the International [...]

And It’s Not Only Sibel Edmonds Who Says So

John M. Cole, a former FBI Counterintelligence and Counterespionage Manager, has publicly confirmed the FBI’s decade long investigation of the former State Department Official Marc Grossman. Cole worked for 18 years in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. According to Cole, as in over one hundred cases involving Israeli espionage activities directed against the US government, the Grossman case was [...]

Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?

Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after [...]