A rare armed attack on a Jordanian intelligence agency facility has left five people dead, including three intelligence officers. The attack took place on Monday at the General Intelligence Department (GID) building in the Baqa’a refugee camp, located just north of the capital Amman. Built in 1968, Baqa’a is the largest of Jordan’s 10 government-sanctioned…
Category: ISIS
Crusader Corner: Europe This Summer Faces Terror Threats From Every Direction
Police and Security Services in Europe this summer have really got it’s work cut out for it with the Euro 2016 Tournament. Besides your run of the mill ISIS Jihadist trying to blow themselves up and kill people at random, now you have “Ultra-Nationalist” Political Terror Groups running around with a virtual arsenal of weapons…
Military History: Israel’s Operation Opera, 1981
Thirty-five years after Operation Opera – the Israeli air attack that destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor at Osirak, retired IAF officers and Mossad agents revealed hitherto unknown details of the operation on Friday. n an expose aired on Channel 10, Col. (Ret.) Ze’ev Raz, who led the June 7, 1981 raid, said that Air Force…
Examining Terrorist Tactics: Brazilian Smuggling Ring Responsible for Helping Middle Eastern Illegals Cross Southern Border
A Brazilian-based smuggling network has been helping illegal immigrants from the Middle East cross the Southern border — and in one case, an Afghan man was found to be part of a terrorist plot in North America, the Washington Times reported Thursday evening. The network has helped smuggle at least a dozen Middle Eastern men…
Crusader Corner: The EU’s New “Online Speech Code” and Facebook’s Crusade Against “Islamophobia”
This is mind blowing folks…I received this email from GateStone Institute, a non-profit Think Tank in New York that is beginning to be censored by the EU (and Facebook) for their fervent stand against Anti-Semitism, islam and terrorism. I am not posting this to help them raise money, I just wanted you guy to see…
Crusader Corner: Only “Islam Can Save Us From Islam?”
In the Washington Post, Petraeus complained about the “inflammatory political discourse that has become far too common both at home and abroad against Muslims and Islam”. The former general warned that restricting Muslim immigration would “undermine our ability to defeat Islamist extremists by alienating and undermining the allies whose help we most need to win…
Crusader Corner: In Europe, Christianity is Slowly But Surely Disappearing Due to Islam
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was the grandest cathedral in the Christian world, until it was captured and converted to a mosque by the Muslim Ottoman Turks in 1453. The Middle East is full of churches and synagogues turned into Islamic sites. Today, every traveler in a modern European city can notice the new mosques…
Terror Watch: ISIS Thugs Urge Attacks on American Soil During Ramadan
FYI: Ramadan this year is June 5th thru July 5th, so keep your head on a swivel and Stay Frosty. -SF BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Islamic State group appeared to try to keep morale high among its supporters in a new audio message released on Saturday, which also called for attacks on the US during…
Learning From Terrorist Tactics: Preparing For Subterranean Warfare
I posted an article last year on Subterranean Warfare in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank and it now looks like this nasty type of fighting is definitely going to be part of the landscape in the battle zones in Syria and Iraq as well. -SF Last year, members of Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate,…
Modern War: The Decade of the Mercenary
Contrary to popular belief, Mercenaries are the “Silent Majority” in Obama’s Military, and the president’s “light footprint” approach to war has relied on thousands of Americans paid to fight — and die — in the shadows. Last weekend, the New York Times published one of what will be many takes on President Barack Obama’s legacy…