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Gen. (Ret.) Zinni Resigns As Special Envoy On Qatar Dispute, Middle East Strategic Alliance Initiative

January 8, 2019 · by · in Department Of Defense, Egypt, foreign policy, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, military history, national security, Oman, POTUS, Qatar, Saudi Arabia · Leave a comment

U.S. Envoy Working On Qatar Dispute Resigns From State Department CBS News · by Face The Nation By Margaret Brennan Updated on: January 8, 2019 / 9:24 AM / CBS News Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine Corps general and former head of U.S. Central Command who has been working as an envoy for the Trump administration to resolve […]

Families Sue Jordan Over 2016 Deaths Of 3 U.S. Green Berets

November 18, 2018 · by · in Al Qaeda, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, foreign policy, Intelligence Community, Jordan, military history, national security, POTUS, Special Operations, Syria, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Families Sue Jordan Over 2016 Deaths Of 3 U.S. Green Berets The New York Times · by Thomas Gibbons-Neff · November 16, 2018 Supported by A funeral service for Staff Sgt. Kevin J. McEnroe, who was killed in Jordan, at Arlington National Cemetery in 2016.CreditSusan Walsh/Associated Press WASHINGTON — The families of three Army Special Forces soldiers who […]

Trump Enlists Gen. Zinni For Quixotic Arab NATO Campaign

September 14, 2018 · by · in Al Qaeda, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, foreign policy, Intelligence Community, Iran, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, Israel, Jordan, military history, national security, NATO, POTUS, Saudi Arabia, Special Operations, Syria, Turkey, US Military, Yemen · Leave a comment

Trump Enlists Gen. Zinni For Quixotic Arab NATO Campaign By Geoffrey Aronson, www.theamericanconservative.com View Original September 14th, 2018 A delegation of the Leaders of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf Countries are seen Sunday, May 21, 2017, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Photo by: Official White House Photo by […]

The Dirty Secret Of Syria: Enabling The Enablers: Who Is Doing Business In Iran Today?

May 2, 2018 · by · in Al Qaeda, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, Europe, foreign policy, Hezbollah, Intelligence Community, Iran, ISIS in Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, military history, national security, POTUS, Russia, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, US Military · Leave a comment

The dirty secret of Syria: enabling the enablers Who is doing business in Iran today? By BOB FEFERMAN May 1, 2018 21:11 4 minute read. A POSTER of Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Suleimani.. (photo credit: REUTERS) In its coverage of the Syrian civil war, the media has ignored a key factor that fuels the ongoing […]

Former Head Of Intelligence For The Israeli Defense Force: ‘This Will Be Israel’s Most Dangerous May Since 1967’

April 24, 2018 · by · in CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, Egypt, Europe, foreign policy, France, Germany, Hezbollah, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Iran, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, military history, national security, OPEC, POTUS, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Former Head Of Intelligence For The Israeli Defense Force: ‘This Will Be Israel’s Most Dangerous May Since The 1967 War’ https://fortunascorner.com      The title above is from Benjamin Kerstein’s April 24, 2018 article in the Jewish publication, Algemeiner.  “When I look at the month of May, I say there wasn’t a month of May so […]

The Syria Quagmire

April 19, 2018 · by · in CIA, counterinsurgency, Covert OIperations, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, Europe, foreign policy, France, Germany, Hezbollah, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Iran, ISIS in Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, military history, national security, POTUS, Russia, Special Operations, Syria, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Excerpts: What does history’s long record about this geostrategic place suggest about how to manage it, if it can be managed at all? There are three possible ways of approach, each one full of risk and difficult to achieve.   One is to let the roundabout do its work, centrifugally and centripetally spinning the on-the-ground […]

Two CIA Vet Takes On CIA Nominee Haspel & Those Tapes

April 19, 2018 · by · in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Belgium, Britain, CIA, Covert OIperations, DIA, espionage, spying, Europe, FBI, foreign policy, France, Germany, Intelligence Community, Jordan, Kuwait, military history, national security, POTUS, Special Operations, terrorism · Leave a comment

Two CIA Vet Takes on CIA Nominee Haspel & Those Tapes www.thecipherbrief.com View Original April 19th, 2018 The nomination hearing of Gina Haspel to lead the agency is shaping up to be a bruising interrogation over Haspel’s role in the destruction of evidence regarding the CIA’s now-defunct enhanced interrogation techniques program. Haspel, currently deputy director […]

U.S. Lawmakers Jolted By Syria Briefing, Pentagon Warns Of IS Resurgence

April 18, 2018 · by · in Al Qaeda, CIA, Congress, Covert OIperations, Department Of Defense, DIA, foreign policy, Hezbollah, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Iran, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, military history, national security, POTUS, Russia, Special Operations, Syria, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

US lawmakers jolted by Syria briefing, Pentagon warns of IS resurgence www.yahoo.com View Original April 18th, 2018 A Syrian pro-government militia member holds a captured Islamic State group flag in June 2017 outside the city of Raqa, which later fell to the Syrian Democratic Forces in October 2017Photo by: AFP Photo/George OURFALIAN Washington (AFP) – […]

U.S. Seeks Arab Force And Funding For Syria – An ‘Arab NATO’

April 17, 2018 · by · in Britain, CIA, counterinsurgency, Department Of Defense, DIA, Egypt, espionage, spying, Europe, foreign policy, France, Greece, Hezbollah, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Iran, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, military history, national security, NATO, POTUS, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, Turkey, UAE, US Military, Yemen · Leave a comment

U.S. Seeks Arab Force and Funding for Syria Under plan, troops would replace American military contingent after ISIS defeat and help secure country’s north; proposal faces challenges https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seeks-arab-force-and-funding-for-syria-1523927888 American troops looked out toward the border with Turkey from a small outpost near the town of Manbij, northern Syria, in February. PHOTO: SUSANNAH GEORGE/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Michael R. […]

The U.S. & Israel Signed A Secret , Far-Reaching — Memorandum Of Understanding — On December 12, 2017 Aimed At Thwarting Iran’s Nuclear & Ballistic Missile Progress 

December 29, 2017 · by · in Al Qaeda, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, foreign policy, Hezbollah, Intelligence Community, Iran, ISIS in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, national security, NSA, Nuclear, POTUS, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

The U.S. & Israel Signed A Secret , Far-Reaching — Memorandum Of Understanding — On December 12, 2017 Aimed At Thwarting Iran’s Nuclear & Ballistic Missile Progress    www.fortunascorner.com      The December 28, 2017 edition of the Times of Israel (ToI) is reporting that the U.S. and Israel concluded a Secret agreement aimed at thwarting, and […]

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