Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct As the U.S. enters the July 4 weekend and the summer travel season with numerous large public gatherings and celebrations, law enforcement and intelligence officials this year are confronting many types of potential terrorist threats but perhaps the most unusual is a dirty bomb attack. Some commentators […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Congress, on the eve of the Nov. 24 deadline, has been warned against an inadequate Western nuclear agreement with Iran. A House panel was told that the U.S. intelligence community continues to lack data on Iran’s nuclear program. Former CIA director Michael Hayden said the intelligence community encountered difficulty in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has determined that President Bashar Assad would maintain his regime in Syria. The intelligence community concluded that Assad was winning the war against Sunni rebels. Officials said Assad was exploiting rebel infighting to capture large areas of the country over the last year. “I believe that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Opposition sources said the CIA has been working with Jordan and Saudi Arabia to train and equip 10,000 Syrians to join the Sunni revolt against the regime of President Bashar Assad. “These fighters were trained by specialists from the Central Intelligence Agency in camps inside Jordan territory,” Najib Al Ghadban, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has become unwieldy and must be reduced, a report said. A report said that the intelligence community could no longer be managed. The report, authored by a sociologist for the CIA, said intelligence agencies duplicated work and relayed too much data for analysis. “I actually […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — President Bashar Assad has defeated a U.S. effort to use Jordan as a launching pad for the overthrow of his regime. Western diplomatic sources said Assad’s military and security forces crushed a U.S. campaign to send hundreds of trained and equipped Sunni rebels from Jordan to regain a key city […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — An Al Qaida-aligned militia linked to the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya is said to have acquired hundreds of surface-to-air missiles. A former senior Justice Department official said the U.S. military was searching for Ansar Al Sharia in eastern Libya since the attack on the U.S. consulate in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei issued a statement hours after a former U.S. senior intelligence official confirmed that Huawei had indeed spied for the Chinese government. Gen. Michael Hayden [Ret], former director of the CIA and NSA, a highly respected professional intelligence official in the West, told the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com We keep hearing about all the countries where Edward Snowden is looking for asylum ― Ecuador and Venezuela would love to have him just to show they can’t be intimidated. Now it seems Ecuador is chickening out while Venezuela vies with Nicaragua for the distinction of defending the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Sometimes you have to wonder when reading the top stories how much people are really thinking about some of the implications. Take this running story about Edward Snowden. It’s a fun read, and it would not be a good idea to put him in jail for a lot […]