Americans for Intelligence Reform

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

ARABIC MEDIA UPDATE for August 12-13, 2019 By Barry Webb

TRUMP’S EMBARGO AGAINST IRAN: A LOOK AT THE AUTO INDUSTRY On the 12th of August, 2019, al-jazeera.net published a report on how the American sanctions have affected the Iranian auto industry. According to this report, in 2017 Iran was the top country in the Middle East region for the production of automobiles, and number 12 […]

ONLY A SHOW OF FORCE WILL STOP ERDOGAN NOW By Barry Webb

Last December when President Trump promised to pull all American Troops out of Syria and let the Turks keep the peace and take care of ISIS (a promise Trump made after a phone call with Erdogan), I said that this was Trump’s Neville Chamberlain moment. Well now, the chickens have come home to roost. Even […]

QATAR AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S WAR ON EUROPE by Barry Webb, 1-4 August Mideast update

The weekend of 02-04 August the Saudi-owned al-arabiyya TV channel’s weekly program sina’at al-mawt aired a show they called “The Muslim Brotherhood’s war in Europe.” Highlights included the following: The program focused mainly on the situation in Belgium where Muslims comprise 1/5 of the population of its capital city of Brussels. Of course, Brussels is […]