Americans for Intelligence Reform

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

NEWS FLASH! Arabic language news flash update by Barry Webb

SAUDI ARABIA/ISRAEL Early the morning of 25 October, al-jazeera TV reported (based on a story of the Israeli paper ha-Aretz) that a “mystery plane” flew from Israel to Riyadh, after a brief stop in Amman Jordan. After 55 minutes on the ground in Riyadh the plane then flew directly back to Israel. The 55 minute […]

17-22 October Mideast Arabic Language News and Intelligence report By Barry Webb

TURKEY-SYRIA With Trump’s lightning betrayal of the largely Kurdish/Christian Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the SDF quickly patched things up with the Damascus government of Bashar al-Assad, and the Russians. As a result while Turkish forces and their terrorist militia allies were genociding their way across Syria north and east of the Euphrates River, the Syrian […]

WHO ARE THE KURDS? by Barry Webb for Americans for Intelligence Reform

With the Trump withdrawal from Syria and the worldwide flood of criticism it engendered centered on “betrayal of an American ally,” “inability of anyone being able to trust America in the future,” and (domestically), the “stupidity of Trump,” some of the far right websites and pundits started a cottage industry of demonizing the Kurds, as […]

Arabic language news roundup by Barry Webb. 14 October 2019

SYRIA/TURKEY As predicted, Trump’s pullout of the last remaining 1,000 American troops from Syria has set off a powder keg and unleashed the law of unintended consequences. First off comes the genocide of the Kurds. Second comes the total discrediting of American dependability which has sent shock waves throughout all of our allies from Israel […]

09 October 2019 Mideast Arabic language news summary By Barry Webb – IRAQ

This past week, Arab Spring-like protests have been taking place in Baghdad and numerous other Iraqi cities. The protests have been mainly against corruption, which is rampant in Iraq. Other issues mentioned by protesters are lack of jobs, defects in public services, and the excessive Iranian influence. Iraqi Shi’a have been the primary movers in […]