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

09 June Arabic language news update By Barry Webb

HOUTHIS, ISIS, AND AL-QAEDA IN YEMEN On the weekend of 05-07 July, the Saudi-owned, Dubai-based international TV channel al-arabiyya program sin’at al-mawt (industry of death) carried a special on the alliance of the Shi’a Houthis with the Sunni ISIS and al-Qaeda in Yemen. The program’s host interviewed a Saudi expert on radical groups named Haroun […]

Special update on violence in Libya by Barry Webb

SPECIAL REPORT: LIBYA By Barry Webb Arab news entities are heavily covering the air attack on a migrant camp in Tripoli. The migrants in this camp were mostly black Africans who had made their way across the Sahara desert, and survived, and were waiting in the camp until they could find passage to Europe. But […]

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 […]

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 […]