RAW stands for Research and Analysis Wing, which is India’s version of the CIA, it s foreign intelligence service. Masood Azhar is the founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed, the fundamentalist Islamic group that recently struck with deadly effect in Kashmir. India is looking for help from Israel’s Mossad and Israel is glad to provide it. Because of...
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India: Pakistan’s Spy Agency Involved in Kashmir Bombing
A senior Indian military commander in Kashmir says Pakistan’s main spy agency was involved in a deadly bomb attack in the disputed region that killed more than 40 Indian troops last week. The car bomb attack, which was claimed by the Pakistan-based militant group the so-called Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), killed the Indian paramilitary troops on the outskirts of...
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U.S. Charges a Former Air Force Counterintelligence Officer Spied for Iran
Once again the Iranian intelligence services have demonstrated the ability to penetrate U.S. intelligence. A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has indicted Monica Witt, a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence officer, for espionage on behalf of the Government of Iran. Four Iranians were also charged with acting on behalf of the Iranian...
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Autopsy of America’s Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan
In War on the Rocks, Jason Dempsey, an Afghan war veteran and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, dissects how the United States lost the war that is has supposedly been winning for the last 17 years. We blamed the Afghans. These failures of the Afghan security forces have been attributed to the...
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How the CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy
NPR’s new history podcast Throughline, hosted by Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, covers the 1953 coup against Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh as the topic of its first episode: How The CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy in 4 Days.