Left: From ISIS video: A French-speaking masked man in the center, flanked by other ISIS operatives Social media continues to serve ISIS propaganda campaign and efforts to recruit in the West, especially among America's black, using Ferguson's and … [Read more...] about ISIS Ongoing Propaganda Campaign
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ISIS Propaganda Campaign – Update
Left: Image of an ISIS baby in ISIS social media propaganda campaign The following are excerpts from Spotlight on Global Jihad (December 10-16, 2014). The battle for hearts and minds conducted by ISIS Detention of an Indian citizen who ran an ISIS … [Read more...] about ISIS Propaganda Campaign – Update
The U.S.-Israel Crisis*
The United States and Israel are under full sail into a perfect storm. The caterwauling back and forth from the Israeli and Anglo-American left that Prime Minister Netanyahu is inviting Pres. Barack Hussein Obama’s intervention in upcoming Israeli … [Read more...] about The U.S.-Israel Crisis*
Weekly Briefing – December 8 – 13, 2014
By 2021 new nuclear missile systems, composed of new warheads and new delivery systems, will constitute 98 percent of Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missile forces. This modernization includes the new RS-24 Yars (which NATO calls the SS-27 Mod … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – December 8 – 13, 2014
Spotlight on Global Jihad
Left: ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula December 1-9, 2014 - Main events In Syria and Iraq, the US-led campaign against ISIS continues. In the city of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) in northern Syria, the fighting continues with no decisive victory by either … [Read more...] about Spotlight on Global Jihad
Islamists’ Political Power in the U.K. and U.S.
Tony Blair got it right. When asked about the consequences of the West’s intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, Britain’s former Prime Minister, once again reiterated “the reason it was tough in Iraq and tough in Afghanistan is the reason it is tough … [Read more...] about Islamists’ Political Power in the U.K. and U.S.
The Growing Russian Menace*
It is not a return of the Cold War – but, in a sense, it may be even more dangerous. For more than four decades, the U.S. and its allies wrestled with a formidable enemy, one armed to the teeth, from nuclear weapons and delivery systems to the best … [Read more...] about The Growing Russian Menace*
ISIS: Portrait of a Jihadi Terrorist Organization*
An ISIS operative holds a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile on the background of a black ISIS flag (Picture sent by ISIS via Twitter) Objectives 1. This study examines the nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an Islamic … [Read more...] about ISIS: Portrait of a Jihadi Terrorist Organization*
The Islamic State: Another Angle of the Threat*
The struggle against the Islamic State (IS) organization led by the United States and its allies appears thus far to be something of a Sisyphean war: ineffective, limited to scratches on the surface of the Jihadi pyramid, beyond the roots of the … [Read more...] about The Islamic State: Another Angle of the Threat*
ISIS’s Public Support for Egyptian Jihadis
Left: Call for aid to Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis on the ISIS forum. Photo: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis operative who blew himself up in the security directorate building in the southern Sinai Peninsula on October 7, 2013. The inscription reads: “Together … [Read more...] about ISIS’s Public Support for Egyptian Jihadis