Excerpts from The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center* ISIS alleges Chinese technology experts joined the Caliphate The ISIS forum website has announced that 400 Chinese missile and technology experts and engineers recently … [Read more...] about ISIS Advances – January 22-28, 2015
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The Myth of Islamist “Lone Wolf”
Left: ISIS Calls For ‘Lone Wolf’ Attacks Inside America So much for the Islamist “Lone Wolf” nonsense. ISIS propaganda is finally getting some attention. Even the New York Times published an op-ed asking “Why Tolerate Terrorist Publications?” … [Read more...] about The Myth of Islamist “Lone Wolf”
Weekly Briefing – January 19-23, 2015
Left: Anti-Israel protestors in Scotland / AP Antisemitism = Islamism - Rachel Ehrenfeld - “Antisemitism can even be found in the halls of the United Nations,” said the joint statement signed by only 40 of the 193 United Nations member states on … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – January 19-23, 2015
The Religion of Peace – Belligerent Reality
"Sunni and Shiite believers of the fictional “religion of peace” could not have chosen a better time to expand their jihad against the infidels. The misleading portrait of the religion whose symbol is the sword, whose fanatic adherents’ principal … [Read more...] about The Religion of Peace – Belligerent Reality
Old Islamists Never Die: Mohammed Haydar Zammar
On March 2014, in an Islamic-State-sponsored prisoner swap, Mohammed Haydar Zammar, the al-Qaeda operative jailed in Syria in 2001, was freed in exchange for Syrian army officers held by the IS. News articles that covered the prisoner exchange did … [Read more...] about Old Islamists Never Die: Mohammed Haydar Zammar
Weekly Briefing – January 12-16, 2015
Charlie Hebdo – A Missed Opportunity - Rachel Ehrenfeld -- In less than a week the free world seems to have lost the United States’ leadership, and the media lost its courage. The winners are the Islamists, whose ‘sensitivities’ apparently weigh more … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – January 12-16, 2015
The Mystery of the Islamic State
Over several months last year, in an effort to understand the Islamic State movement, Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata, commander of American Special Operations forces in the Middle East, sought the advice of Defense, intelligence and State experts, and … [Read more...] about The Mystery of the Islamic State
The Paris Attack
Cartoon credit: Ruben L. Oppenheimer, 10:23 AM - 7 Jan 2015 President Obama is wrong. Free expression and a free press are clearly not "universal values," as he asserted in his condemnation of the attack on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris. The … [Read more...] about The Paris Attack
The Terrorist Attack on Charlie Hebdo – First Hand Account*
Left: The latest tweet on Charlie Hebdo’s Twitter account- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's cartoon:@Charlie_Hebdo_ Follow, Meilleurs vœux, au fait.5:28 AM - 7 Jan 2015 -- If I sound incoherent, it’s because I am shaken. The reasons will be obvious. I had … [Read more...] about The Terrorist Attack on Charlie Hebdo – First Hand Account*
ISIS: Portrait of a Jihadi Terrorist Organization
1. This study examines the nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an Islamic Salafist-jihadi terrorist organization founded a decade ago as a branch of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. It established itself during the fighting against the … [Read more...] about ISIS: Portrait of a Jihadi Terrorist Organization