ICT Bi-weekly Report – Jihadi Forums
By ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group
This report summarizes notable events discussed on jihadist Web forums during the second half of June 2013. Following are...
How Can Peace Operations Deal with Organized Crime?
All over the world , organized crime threatens peace and security. And yet, of the current 28 UN peacekeeping, peace building or special political...
High demand for the Israeli gun that shoots around corners
While the Israeli developed Corner Shot system is in high demand, Israeli companies are developing some more weapon systems that are aimed mainly at...
JFK Airport Customs are a drag on the economy
Customs at JFK Airport are hurting the region’s economy says U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, who issued a personal appeal to the Department of Homeland...
Critical infrastructure risks in the U.S. still high
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure (CI) in the U.S. is up — way up, particularly in the energy sector. The Department of Homeland Security's...
Radios failed during Navy Yard attack, emergency responders say
Radios for federal firefighters and police officers failed during Monday’s mass shooting at Washington’s Navy Yard, according to union representatives for first responders.
According to...
Iran’s Great Shiite Fleet
Iran is significantly expanding its naval capabilities as the U.S. Navy removes one of its two aircraft carriers from the Persian Gulf due to...
The so called “peace talks” and Israel’s weak reactions to terror
Reality hits the naïve, and willingly ignorant, Israeli politicians hard on the face almost every week. While the "Peace Talks" with the Palestinians continue,...
Kenya, incapable of handling terror
The Kenyan security forces are incapable of handling a terror attack like the one that took place yesterday in Nairobi. Israeli sources said this...
A dead soldier and impotent ministries
Due to the fact that the relevant Israeli ministries are not performing their duties Palestinians can murder Israelis.
For some reason Tomer Hazan, an Israeli...
Iran – the new round of the master plan
Only the very naive will fall for the Iranians' latest stunt: "We are ready for an agreement on our nuclear program." Well, the word...
The al Qaeda Network: A New Framework for Defining the Enemy
The failure to define al Qaeda properly has confused American policy and strategy. The enemy was not just the man shot dead on May...
Backdoor Plots: The Darknet as a Field for Terrorism
By Yotam Rosner, Aviad Mendelbaum, Sean London, and Yoram Schweitzer
On Friday, August 2, 2013, the US State Department published a travel warning, and in...
The Syrian Chemical Weapons Crisis: Diplomatic Solutions
By Shlomo Brom and David Fridman
The remarks by Secretary of State John Kerry, spoken at a London press conference on September 9th, 2013, according...
ICT Report: Monthly Terrorist Activities
The following is a summary and analysis of the terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations that occurred during July 2013, researched and recorded by the...
NSA Allegedly Spies On International Credit Card Transactions
Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper –joining the NSA revelations train – reported that the intelligence agency is interested in international credit card transactions and may...
Flexible vehicle-arrest system stops cars involved in crime, terrorism
An Inderscience Publishers release reports that Pak Kin Wong and colleagues in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering at the University of Macau, in Taipa,...
The American Jewish Federations’ security arm stresses awareness on High Holidays
Security awareness should be a primary consideration for synagogues during the High Holidays, the security arm of the national Jewish community said. This according...
Report recommends DHS take ownership for countering violent extremism mission
A changed terrorist threat landscape since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 means the Obama administration and Congress should implement a number of changes...
Sharp rise in British drone use in Afghanistan
The British military fired nearly seven times as many missiles from unmanned drones in Afghanistan last year as it did five years earlier, according...
No credible or specific intel of threat tied to 9/11 anniversary
The government is aware of no credible or specific information that points to any terror plot tied to the anniversary of the September 2001...
U.S. drones a prime target for Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda has formed teams of engineers to develop ways to defeat U.S. drones, or unmanned air systems (UAS). This according to documents leaked by...
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