Americans for Intelligence Reform

Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

25 JUNE Arab language weekly news update By Barry Webb

EGYPT The host of the sin’at al-mawt (Industry of Death) program on the Saudi-owned al-arabiyya TV channel interviewed an Egyptian Counter Terrorism expert on 21 June. The Egyptian guest claimed that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi has recently urged his supporters and cells to escalate their attacks. In this context, the Egyptian CT expert, in answer to […]

LEAKED DOCUMENTS MAKE CLEAR QATAR’S FINANCING OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ORGANIZATIONS IN CANADA

LEAKED DOCUMENTS MAKE CLEAR QATAR’S FINANCING OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ORGANIZATIONS IN CANADA Posted on www.ahram.org.eg on 18 May 2019. Filed by Islam ‘Azzam. (Translated from the Arabic by Barry Webb) The book Qatar Papers was recently published in France by the authors Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot. This book contains documents that were leaked from […]

28 MAY Arabic News update By Barry Webb

28 MAY Arabic News update By Barry Webb SUDAN The vice president of the military junta now controlling Sudan, General Muhammad Hamdan was recently interviewed by a correspondent from Egypt’s al-ahram newspaper. During the interview General Hamdan thanked Egypt for its role in terms of siding with the “revolution.” Based on this interview, and a […]

MUHAMMAD’S NIGHT JOURNEY By Barry Webb

MUHAMMAD’S NIGHT JOURNEY By Barry Webb What it is: The basis of the story is that one night while Muhammad was sleeping in Mecca, the angel Gabriel came and woke him and had him mount the mighty steed Buraq, usually described as a steed with supernatural powers. Buraq took Muhammad to Jerusalem where he found […]

18 JUNE Weekly report By Barry Webb ENERGY NEWS

18 JUNE INTEL REPORT By Barry Webb ENERGY NEWS MBS-Egypt TV talk show host Amru Adeeb, in his show al-hakayya (the story) aired on MBS- Egypt on 15 June, reported that Egypt is becoming an “energy hub for Europe as well as Africa.” In this context he noted that Egypt has signed a deal to […]