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Hamas founder’s son spied for Shin Bet for years

24 February 2010

Haaretz, 24 Feb 10: The son of a leading Hamas figure, who famously converted to Christianity, served for over a decade as the Shin Bet security service’s most valuable source in the militant organization’s leadership, Haaretz has learned. Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas founder and one of its [...]

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Enterprise Security Tips

24 February 2010

PC World, 23 Feb 10: Whether your business is a big fish or a small-fry home office, you can get hacked just the same, and the stakes are higher than a few canceled credit cards. Here are a few tips to protect your users and your networks–steps that even enterprise-class security specialists may slip up [...]

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Wooing Recruits To Radical Islam Like ‘Dating’

22 February 2010

NPR, 22 Feb 10: A former member of the radical Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir explains the psychology and tactics of enticing new recruits. Although he never met Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bombing suspect, Shiraz Maher recruited people like him . . . .
. . . . He offered NPR his insights into how [...]

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Generation Jihad: Young people ‘brainwashed with Al Qaeda propaganda on the internet’

16 February 2010

Daily Mail, 15 Feb 10: Religious extremists are increasingly turning to the internet to find, indoctrinate and radicalise young Muslims, according to a new documentary series. Like sexual predators they prey on vulnerable young people, quickly brainwashing them with Al Qaeda propaganda and very quickly turning them into potential terrorists. New BBC2 series [...]

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Al Qaeda Looking to Recruit English Speakers, Women

16 February 2010

Fox News, 15 Feb 10: Al Qaeda in Yemen is actively recruiting English-speaking individuals, intelligence officials told Fox News on Monday, saying that investigators are looking for people who are more like Americans, having been born in the United States or Canada. “Anyone who can fit in and not attract suspicion” is desirable to the [...]

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Security Dilemma for the Day: DIA employee with TS/SCI clearance dating a foreign national illegal

4 February 2010

Washington Post, 3 Feb 10: Federal careers expert Derrick Dortch was online Wednesday, February 3, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss government job searching and military transition. . . . .
Ellicott City, Md.: My coworker has a TS/SCI and works for the Defense Intelligence Agency and is dating a foreign national, she already reported it, [...]

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Former Chinese spy seeks asylum in Toronto church

3 February 2010

National Post, 2 Feb 10: A man who spied on Chinese dissidents in the United States has been living in a Toronto church since this past August to avoid deportation, the National Post has learned. Hours before the Canada Border Services Agency was scheduled to deport Gankhuyag Bumuutseren for espionage, he sought sanctuary in St. [...]

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Hamas recruited 2 students to carry out intelligence collection, attacks

1 February 2010

Ynet, 1 Feb 10: The Shin Bet arrested two east Jerusalem residents suspected of being recruited by Hamas during their time in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and gathering information on potential terror targets in Israel, it was cleared for publication. An indictment was filed against the pair with the Jerusalem District Court on Monday. The [...]

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In the West, Chinese Student Groups Push the Party Line; act as a front group for Communist China

29 January 2010

Epoch Times, 28 Jan 10: As the U.S.-based Shen Yun Performing Arts Company began its 2010 world tour from the U.S., various cities have begun to witness the spread of the Chinese regime’s propaganda targeting the group. The regime has been utilizing university connections as one of its primary resources for defaming the performing arts [...]

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IDF unit to monitor soldiers’ entries on Facebook

22 January 2010

Haaretz, 21 Jan 10: The Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Corps has set up a special unit to find intentional media leaks by soldiers and officers, as well as unintended leaks via social media networks such as Facebook. The crackdown is a product of the Second Lebanon War and the conclusions of the Winograd Committee, among [...]

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American ex-convicts suspected of link to Yemen militants

20 January 2010

Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan 10: U.S. officials believe that as many as three dozen Americans who converted to Islam while in prison in the United States have traveled to Yemen over the last year, possibly to be trained by Al Qaeda, according to a Senate report. The findings have alarmed U.S. counter-terrorism officials, who [...]

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Terrorists’ new target: Hire unemployed techies

11 January 2010

Silicon India, 10 Jan 10: At the time of recession, when most of the top IT companies slashed lakhs of jobs; techies took another step to earn money and joined different terrorists groups across the world. Indian security agencies say that the recruitment of techies was maximum in 2009 when recession hit the world.
According to [...]

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Al Qaeda recruiting at UK prison

11 January 2010

Sunday Mercury, 10 Jan 10: DEEP in the plush Worcestershire countryside lies a silent threat to our national security. Amid the forests and foliage of leafy Littleton sits the forbidding fortress of HMP Long Lartin, where some of the world’s most dangerous Islamic extremists swap stories, prayers and even plots. New research from inside the [...]

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Plane bomb suspect joined al Qaeda in London: Yemen

7 January 2010

Reuters, 7 Jan 10: A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas Day was recruited by al Qaeda in London and met a radical American Muslim cleric in Yemen, a senior Yemeni official said on Thursday . . .

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KGB Attempt to Recruit NBC Reporter

6 January 2010

Gawker, 6 Jan 10: Former NBC News reporter Irving R. Levine, who died last year, was a hilariously nerdy TV presence: A soft-spoken, bow-tied mensch. So it’s surprising to learn, via declassified FBI files, that he deftly parried KGB attempts to blackmail him. . . . It turns out that Levine was among the first [...]

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Profiling Hasan and Abdulmutallab

4 January 2010

Human Events/Clint Van Zandt (former FBI profiler), 4 Jan 10: Umar Farouk AbdulAbdulmutallab is the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day as it landed in Detroit, MI. By some standards he was an unlikely target for recruitment by radical Islamic fundamentalists. By others, he was obvious one. [...]

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Online poster appears to be Christmas Day bomb suspect

29 December 2009

CNN, 29 Dec 09: “Let me tell you a little about me.” “Farouk1986″ introduced himself to a Muslim online community with these words in February 2005.
“My name is Umar but you can call me Farouk,” the poster continues, detailing biographical information that appears to match the life of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian man [...]

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Interviewing Kim Philby and drinking with the KGB

22 December 2009

The Tribune, 22 Dec 09: . . . . I had feelers out everywhere, and eventually got a call from somebody who said he represented something called the Soviet Copyright Agency.
We met in a bar and he told me that an interview was “not impossible” to arrange, subject to a few rules. First, the interview, [...]

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Ireland: Dissidents plan honey traps in bid to kill troops

18 December 2009

Belfast Telegraph, 18 Dec 09: Dissident republicans are planning to use honey traps this Christmas in a bid to lure a member of the security forces to his death, it has emerged.
During a recent security briefing Army personnel were warned about the recruitment by dissidents of attractive females to identify soldiers at popular nightspots [...]

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Hired by Customs, but Working for Mexican Cartels

18 December 2009

New York Times, 17 Dec 09: At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them abusive, earned praise and commendations while serving in the Army and the Marines, including two tours in Iraq, [...]

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Foreign affairs? Yes please. Our former Man in Washington says FO chappies have always been partial to bedroom diplomacy

17 December 2009

Daily Mail, 17 Dec 09: . . . . . My first posting was to Moscow in 1968 in the depths of the Cold War. I was an innocent, unmarried 24-year-old. I had been warned in London to beware of KGB honey traps.
I travelled to Moscow on an aircraft carrying the new British Ambassador, [...]

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Terrorist recruiters leverage the Web

14 December 2009

Washington Post, 13 Dec 09: Pakistani authorities on Saturday were searching for an insurgent figure believed to have aided five Northern Virginia men who allegedly tried to join al-Qaeda, saying the case could help unravel a growing network of terrorist recruiters who scour the Internet for radicalized young men.
Investigators have identified the man, known [...]

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Former communist officer occupies high post in Czech BIS

11 December 2009

Czech Happenings, 11 Dec 09: Vladimir Palecek, a high-ranking member of the Czech civilian counter-intelligence service BIS, was a former communist secret police StB officer who worked there for 14 years before the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.
According to the documents from the Interior Ministry´s [...]

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Baroness Ashton’s husband Peter Kellner wooed by KGB

7 December 2009

Times of London, 6 Dec 09: THE husband of Europe’s new foreign minister has disclosed that he was targeted by the KGB as a source in the 1980s.
Peter Kellner, the pollster and political commentator who is married to Baroness Ashton, spoke about the encounter as his wife faces scrutiny over her previous role at the [...]

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Sex, Spies, and Audiotape: What to Watch Out For on Your Official Trip to China

3 December 2009

Epoch Times, 2 Dec 09: Ian Clement said he should have known better when he travelled to the Beijing Olympics in 2008 as London’s deputy mayor. He had been briefed by Britain’s intelligence service, but he didn’t listen.
“They told me about honeytraps and warned me that the Chinese secret service often use women to entice [...]

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Uyghur Pressed to Spy

2 December 2009

Radio Free Asia, 2 Dec 09: Authorities in China’s troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang detained a Pakistani national and member of the Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority for “harming public order” before asking him to infiltrate Uyghur groups back in Pakistan, the man said in a recent interview. . . . .
. . . . Later, [...]

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Jihad draws young men across globe back to Somalia

2 December 2009

Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2 Dec 09: They slipped away quietly, not telling family or friends where they were going or why. Days later, the young Somali men turned up in their homeland to bear arms with Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaida. Counterterrorism officials worried that they might return to carry out an attack [...]

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Former Olympics chief Juan Antonio Samaranch linked to KGB, book claims

1 December 2009

Daily Telegraph, 23 Nov 09: Juan Antonio Samaranch, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, worked in close association with the KGB, a new Russian book has claimed. The authors of The KGB Plays Chess even go as far as alleging Mr Samaranch may owe his election to the top Olympic job to the [...]

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Money talks in Afghanistan, says army counter-insurgency manual

18 November 2009

Guardian, 17 Nov 09: Money can be more important than force. This is one of the messages from the British army in its first counter-insurgency warfare manual to be published for eight years.
Taking in lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, it says money must not be used simply as “bribes”. It must be used as [...]

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New book alleges Samaranch KGB link

16 November 2009

Play the Game, 16 Nov 09:
A new book by Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky alleges that former IOC President, Juan Antonio Samaranch, was a member of the Soviet Union’s infamous spy network, the KGB. German journalist Jens Weinreich, an expert in sports politics, takes a look at the evidence for Play the Game.
Did IOC Honorary President [...]

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Court papers say terror suspect tried to ‘recruit’ others

12 November 2009

From the Boston Globe:
Tarek Mehanna, a Sudbury man indicted this week on terrorism charges, confided to a friend three years ago that he stopped speaking during prayer sessions at a Sharon mosque because someone complained that he sounded like an Al Qaeda operative, according to documents filed in federal court Thursday.
Mehanna, 27, an Internet blogger [...]

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