Search: Intelligence,Media,Middle East,Covert activity,Human security,USA (3 materials)

American Jihadi: Why Westerners Fight with the Islamic State

Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when the subject of Westerners ... ... and immolation, understanding this process (and more importantly the failure of the intelligence community and state department to make inroads against it) requires one... ... beyond anything the West could ever think plausible. Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand the appeal of that...

18.04.2015

Twisting in Our Own Tortured Noose: American Verbal Duplicity and Torture

... ‘abhorrent’ techniques used on terrorist targets after 9/11 to glean greater intelligence and information. Since that release there has been an orgy of oscillating... ... torture techniques after 9/11 is the bogus semantics game being played out with the media now in the report’s aftermath. “Yes we did torture. No. Sorry. We... ... obtained. Well, alright, maybe I cannot prove that was actually the case, a direct causal link, but I am pretty sure SOME information EVENTUALLY came out because of the...

15.12.2014

Yemen's Special Interests, or, Horton Hears a Houthi

... strikes are aimed against. The only sustained message given in the media, coming from the government, is that America is lending weapons ... ... But given these strikes are actually being done by the American Intelligence Community, namely the CIA, in an arena where the US ... ... The Yemen government has always made connections and leveled accusations of Iranian involvement and support to the Houthis, what ... ... generating support for whatever groups it can find across the Middle East, especially if those groups might share a particular ...

23.07.2014

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