Counter Terror
About 40% of lone-wolf terrorists are driven by mental illness, not ideology
Researchers have long studied the relationship between mental illness and terrorism, particularly lone-wolf terrorists. These cases include persons such as the radical Muslim man...
Israeli made UAS will have a new base in India
The coming year may bring in some desperately needed relief to men combating the Maoists in central Indian states in the form of better...
Efforts to identify the source of ISIS recent weapons shipments
An unidentified aircraft dropped weapons and equipment for ISIS southeast of Tikrit over the weekend. Western intelligence sources say that there is a concentrated...
Australian customs officers to be allowed to carry firearms in airports
Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton, announced that, as part of the merger between customs and the immigration department into the new Australian border force...
Canada: Police fears terrorists could use drones to attack VIPs
An intelligence assessment titled Extremist Exploitation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles says there have been more than a dozen alleged plots around the world to...
More streamlined security checks at U.S airports?
Thirteen years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans are beginning to adjust to less oppressive security checks at airports. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has...
Hezbollah Closes a Breach of its Outer Shield: The Threat to Israel
In light of the complex evolving predicament facing Hezbollah, the alleged discovery of yet another infiltration would probably be branded by the organization as...
Anthrax – the next attack is only a matter of time
The GAO (Government Accountability Office) is calling for the FBI to develop a comprehensive framework for future anthrax investigations. After the 2001 anthrax attacks,...
Kaspersky Lab Launches Online Radar for the Most Dangerous Cyberthreats
As complex operations become an increasingly frequent feature of contemporary cybercrime, Kaspersky Lab is launching an online service that brings together all the information...
iHLS TV Weekly Report – December 30 2014
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In this weekly report (30 December 2014):
DARPA getting closer to an Iron Man suit
U.S Navy declares Laser Weapons operational
Iranian...
Evaluation of the American Campaign against ISIS and Its Chances of Success
1. President Obama has set the US the clear, but in ITIC assessment pretentious, goal of destroying ISIS with a comprehensive campaign of several...
IDF’s Electronic Warfare Battalion: the Enemy’s Headache
Israel Defense Forces’ Electronic Warfare (EW) soldiers and officers are deployed along the nation’s borders. Among their missions: monitoring radical terrorist organizations in Syria,...
Evaluation of ISIS’s weaknesses
Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
1. In recent months, ISIS has managed to brand itself in the Arab-Muslim world and in...
Recruitment of operatives in Austria
Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
An Islamic preacher was recently detained on charges of recruiting operatives in Austria to join ISIS,...
Experts: strong terrorist infrastructure in France
France is a hub of diverse terrorist activity, just waiting for a chance to perpetrate terrorist attacks. This, according to Israeli counterterrorism experts.
These experts...
Future Israeli Strikes in Syria: Shifting Dynamics?
Udi Dekel, Orit Perlov
As presented in the Syrian social media, public opinion holds that damage to the US interest in Syria will lead to a...
Spotlight on Global Jihad: Yemen
Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
Report of an attempted attack on an airbase where Western forces were staying
Ansar al-Sharia (which is...
Turkish oil pipeline explosion – a Cyber attack?
The August 2008 Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline explosion in Refahiye, eastern Turkey, was ruled at the time to be an accident resulting from a...
Spotlight on Global Jihad: Australia
Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
Terrorist attack in Australia, possibly inspired by ISIS
On December 15, 2014, an armed man took over...
IDF counter terror unit performs hostage rescue drill
The timing was extraordinary: the very same day an Iranian-born man took over Lindt café at Sydney, taking dozens of hostages, Lod's train station...
Law Enforcement and National Security vs. Global Business Interests
Yoram Hacohen
Three interesting processes are underway as a direct result of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of the access by US security services...
China will use laser weapons to protect from drones used for terror attacks
China has recently signaled its intentions to join the march toward laser weapons, unveiling a laser system designed to destroy drones. The new lasers...
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