That’s the question circulating both in Arab and Israeli media. Israel’s Mossad is the world’s foremost practitioner of assassination. General Qasem Soleimani is commander of the Qods Force, the special operations command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Israel is worried about Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East. Soleimani is Iran’s most effective...
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Yossi Cohen, Mossad Chief, Is Touted as Netanyahu’s Successor
The chiefs of Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, have long been public figures in Israel. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo made headlines by saying Israel’s security would be enhanced by some kind of deal. When the Obama and administration...
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Israel Accused of Planting Spy Devices Near the White House
The government of Israel, likely that of Saudi Arabia and Russia, hopes President Trump will be re-elected in 2020. But that doesn’t mean they don’t spy on him. From POLITICO The miniature surveillance devices, colloquially known as “StingRays,” mimic regular cell towers to fool cell phones into giving them their locations and identity information. Formally...
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The Egyptian Spy Who Worked for Mossad
Heba Salim was an Egyptian woman who said she spied in service of peace. Her story is the basis a famous Egyptian movie, Al sood ila al haweyah. (Climbing to the Abyss) I never knew her story until I read it in Egyptian Streets. At a time when Egyptian President Sadat was planning his next...
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Dutch Mole Aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet Cyberattack on Iran
One intelligence service may need another–or two to successfully mount a covert operation. Case in point: the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program. Its long been known that the United States and Israel collaborated on creating a computer virus known as Stuxnet. The virus caused the Iranian computers controlling centrifuges used to enrich uranium to...