חשיפה: המועמד שהפסיד במירוץ לראשות השב"כ הוא אסף יריב, כיום בשירות המוסד For the past two years, there has been essentially a two-man race to succeed the current Shin Bet chief, Yoram Cohen. Though Israeli media could not identify the candidates except by their initials, in 2013 I reported them as Roni Alsheikh (nickname, "The Fox") and Nadav Argaman … [Read more...]
IDF Lies About Its Increasing Syria Intervention
Foreign media reported two separate reports of Israeli attacks against Syrian military targets reported to be SCUD missile sites and armories. Though this has not been confirmed, in the past Israel has specifically attacked weapons convoys bringing Iranian weaponry via Syria to their eventual destination in Lebanon, where they would buttress Hezbollah's … [Read more...]
Shin Bet Insiders Lobby Against Favored Candidate for Next Chief
I'll tell you something that no Israeli will ever read or watch currently in their domestic media: the favored candidate to succeed Yoram Cohen as the next Shin Bet chief is former settler, Roni Alsheikh (trade nickname, "The Fox"). Officers and agents of Israeli intelligence agencies aren't named publicly. This is the only media source which has named him … [Read more...]
CIA Report Finds Israeli Targeted Assassinations Don’t Work
Wikileaks has released a new document trove in which there is some interesting material related to Israeli counter-terror operations. A CIA report with the chilling title, Best Practices in Counter-Insurgency: Making High-Value Targeting Operations an Effective Counterinsurgency Tool, makes the case for the value of targeted assassinations: A CIA review of … [Read more...]