Americans for Intelligence Reform

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

Category: Foreign

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 […]

EMIRATI DELEGATIONS VISIT ARCH ENEMY IRAN By Barry Webb

On 30 July 2019 www.aljazeera.net reported that in spite of the rising tensions in the Gulf, an Emirati military delegation visited Iran for the 2nd time in two weeks. These visits by delegations from the Emirati Coast Guard had to do with discussing “cooperation” on border issues between the two countries and cooperation concerning “unlawful […]

QATAR KILLS BIN LADEN’S SON By Barry Webb

A Saudi guest on Sarah Damdhawi’s tafa’alkom program aired on al-Arabia TV on 04 August 2019 said that: “Qatar killed Hamza bin Usama bin Laden as a gift to the U.S.” A little background is in order here. Hamza, the son of Usama bin Laden was the future of al-Qaeda. He was the sole figure […]

ISIS SPECIAL REPORT – IRAQ By Barry Webb, senior fellow at AIR

Iraqi military has reported that they foiled six terrorist attempts by ISIS in various parts of the country, including Baghdad and areas in Kurdistan. On the 28 July version of al-arabiyya TV’s “Panorama” show, Iraqi interviewees revealed that ISIS has formed a “belt” around Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad with some 2,000 fighters. They also […]

QATAR SPECIAL REPORT By Barry Webb, weapons sales to Qatar

Saudi and Egyptian news media are all up in arms today (15-16 July) over American and European arms sales to Qatar. These reports come in the wake of reports out of Italy that Italian authorities have busted a neo-Nazi group and found in their possession a French Matra (air-to-air) missile. The group has no Airforce […]

Weekly Arabic language news reporting by Barry Webb, 15 July 2019

On 12 July, the al-arabiyya TV show sin’at al-mawt (Industry of death) featured an interview with a European counter terrorism expert. According to this individual, ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Iran are all active in Europe. However, some Europeans who fought in Iraq and Syria for ISIS went to Libya, others to Afghanistan, and yet others to […]