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Deception Operations

U.S. torn over whether some Muslims pose threat or offer insight

8 February 2010

Dalls Morning News, 7 Feb 10: After the worst military base massacre in U.S. history, officials acknowledged that they failed to “connect the dots” – the shooter had been corresponding with an imam tied to al-Qaeda and had condemned the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a war against Islam.
But Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal [...]

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Bomber’s American Teacher

5 February 2010

Fox News, 5 Feb 10: An American born Islamic scholar who once gave religious instruction to the accused underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, is coming under fire for videotaped remarks denouncing western courts and democracy despite his reputation as a moderate.
Following the arrest of Abdulmuttalab last December in Detroit, Yasir Qadhi expressed surprise at his [...]

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Fox’s Fairly Imbalanced Pro-Muslim Influence

5 February 2010

TownHall/Diana West, 4 Feb 10: Should Fox News register with the State Department as a foreign agent — an agent of Saudi Arabia?
First off, is that a farfetched question? Not when a leading member of the ruling family of the Sharia-totalitarian “kingdom” of Saudi Arabia, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has made himself the second-largest shareholder [...]

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Operation INFEKTION: Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign

27 January 2010

CIA, 27 Jan 10: New “Studies in Intelligence” posted. Includes:
Operation INFEKTION: Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign
The practice of intelligence differed considerably between East and West during the Cold War. Western intelligence services were most commonly tasked with gathering information, but their Soviet bloc counterparts placed much greater emphasis on deception operations [...]

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Invasion and the body snatchers

13 January 2010

Times of London, 14 Jan 10: In a new book (coming 18 January), an author reveals for the first time secrets of one of the most audacious acts of wartime deception — how a British corpse was dropped into the sea with a new identity to fool Hitler about Allied invasion plans . . .
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Strike on CIA base tests U.S. assessment of al Qaeda

5 January 2010

Reuters, 5 Jan 10: Revelations that a double agent linked to al Qaeda may have carried out last week’s bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan suggests the group has achieved a new level of sophistication and may not be as weakened as U.S. officials had thought.
Current and former intelligence officials said on Tuesday the [...]

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Al Qaeda’s Trojan Horse

5 January 2010

Weekly Standard, 4 Jan 10: An intriguing name has surfaced in the worldwide investigation into Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s life. That name is Moazzam Begg, and it is a name that is well known to those left-wing journalists and human rights lawyers who take everything former Gitmo detainees say at face value.
Abdulmutallab [...]

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Historian claims to have finally identified wartime ‘Man Who Never Was’

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 Jan 10: A historian claims to have conclusively proved the identity of the “Man Who Never Was”, whose body was used in a spectacular plot to deceive the Germans over the invasion of Sicily in the Second World War, Ian Johnston reports.
It was a turning point in the Second World War. [...]

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