NIGHTWATCH Extract: Bin Laden, Pakistan, & US

Pakistan-US: The US Secretary of State repeated her comments, first made during an earlier visit, that “some elements of the Pakistani government, particularly its intelligence establishment, know where Osama bin Laden is hiding,” The Times of India reported. Note: The evidence supporting Secretary Clinton’s comment is overwhelming. Both bin Laden and Mullah Omar should have …

NIGHTWATCH Extract: Syria Bans Veils at Universities

Syria: For the record. Female students wearing a full face veil will be barred from Syrian university campuses, the country’s minister of higher education has said. A government official said the practice ran counter to the secular, academic values and traditions of Syrian universities. The ruling, published on the All4Syria website, was said to be …

Mini-Me: DoD “Spies” Will Die Often — Expect More “Car Crashes” All Over the World — and the Four Part Solution Clapper, Vickers, and Flynn Need to Consider

Huh? NIGHTWATCH Mali-US: For the record. US Africa Command announced that on 20 April three US soldiers and three civilians died in an automobile crash in Bamako. One was from the Army’s intelligence and security command and two were from special forces – Special Operations Command. The civilians were not identified, but almost certainly were …

Mini-Me: Warning Notice – America Burning in the Spring + RECAP

NIGHTWATCH: US: For the record. Declaring “war” on the United States, a militant Palestinian faction — Ma’sadat al-Mujahidin — claimed responsibility for a 19 January forest fire near Reno, Nevada. The group threatened more action and set a 3-month deadline for the “enemies of Islam” to “disavow” Israel’s control of contested lands and its “actions …

Engineers of India-Afghanistan vs China-Pakistan

India-China-Pakistan: Indian intelligence agencies say they have credible evidence that several hundred Chinese working in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir are People’s Liberation Army engineers, the Times of India reported 12 May. According to the report, Indian intelligence agencies are verifying that the engineers are engaged with military construction projects, such as bunkers, and said the presence of …

Iran–and the USA–Blew Arab Spring, Both Irrelevant

Iran-Arab Spring: For the record. The head of the parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy said on 12 May that the Iranian government was not dynamic in supporting regional uprisings. Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran’s diplomatic system was not active enough initially but that the activity has started and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi …