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Lebanese Spy For Israel Receives Death Penalty
By Daria Carmon
Lebanon’s military court handed down a death sentence on Monday, June 20th on Bassam Abu Jawdeh, a Lebanese merchant found guilty of espionage. The conviction was for working for Israeli intelligence and supplying them with information. Death penalty is imposed in Lebanon when an operative’s actions result in Lebanese life being lost. The death…
Lebanon Breaks Up Alleged Israeli Spy Ring
Last week, Lebanon’s military intelligence agency reported the arrest of a Palestinian man, purportedly a spy recruited by Israel. Sources say that the suspect was recruited by Mossad to gather information on terror groups and Lebanese Army movements. Allegedly, he was also told to search for details about Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator. Arad…
Iran Blames West for Stuxnet; Arrests Spies
In the aftermath of the discovery of the complicated and effective Stuxnet worm, Iran’s intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi blamed western intelligence agencies for developing and unleashing the virus on thousands of Iranian computers. He has now announced on Iranian TV that his own intelligence team has captured “several spies” implicated in the plot to derail Iran’s…
Was Stuxnet an Israeli Attack on Iran?
Referred to as a ‘worm,’ Stuxnet is malware, or a computer virus, that was discovered in June 2010 by a Belarus security firm, though it was likely unleashed the previous June. Its purpose is to disrupt industrial processes and infrastructure, and the worm’s…
Israel’s Intel-Gathering Base Revealed
CIA, MI6, Mossad – organizations with name recognition, with clout. But what about Unit 8200, the British Government Communications Headquarters and the American National Security Agency? A little less familiar perhaps, a lot less glamorous certainly, but these signal deciphering bodies are no less important. Even more interesting is…
Israeli Operative Released on Bail; Dubai Protests
Even though a Polish court upheld the decision to extradite to Germany an Israeli operative going by the name of Uri Brodsky, Mr. Brodsky avoided espionage charges, thanks to a deal seemingly brokered by Israel with Poland and Germany. Although forgery charges are still pending against him in Germany, Mr. Brodsky was released on bail and…
One Dead Israeli Spy, Two Theories of Double Loyalt ...
By Haggai Carmon
In June 2007 Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian businessman, fell to his death from the balcony of his London apartment.
Did he fall, jump or get a push? These questions have lingered for the past three years and remain unanswered. If he was murdered, then his death could help us figure out whether Marwan was a loyal…
Israeli spies arrested in Lebanese telecoms industr ...
Lebanon has arrested a telecoms company transmissions engineer, Tareq Raba, on suspicion of spying for Israel. His arrest follows on the heels of last month’s arrest of Charbel Qazzi, a telecoms technician at the same state-owned cellphone company, Alfa.
It seems very likely that Qazzi gave up Raba’s name during interrogation by Lebanese security and intelligence agents,…
U.S. v. Iran: Winds of War or Psychological Warfare ...
By Haggai Carmon
Did Brigadier-General Mehdi Moini, who commands Iran’s Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corps (IRGC) in the Iranian West Azerbaijan province, fail to read events through, or was he conducting psychological counter-warfare? Moini was interviewed by the Iranian television channel Press TV, following media reports on the presence of American and Israeli forces in Azerbaijan along the…
Perhaps Gaza Should Send Humanitarian Aid to Turkey ...
By Haggai Carmon
Is there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza that needs Turkish or Iranian support? Not according to Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times, who wrote just last week, “Visiting Gaza persuaded me, to my surprise, that Israel is correct when it denies that there is any full-fledged humanitarian crisis in Gaza.” Based on…
The Sick Man Upon the Bosphorus: Déjà Vu?
By Haggai Carmon
On May 14, 1876, the New York Times ridiculed the Ottoman Empire, reminding its readers that “It is now some twenty years since we began to hear about the ’sick man upon the Bosphorus,’ yet the same sort of talk, under somewhat different conditions, is current today. The Ottoman Empire seems to have as many…
Will Poland extradite alleged Mossad agent to Germa ...
A Polish court charged with ruling on the extradition will make its decision within a month, a court spokesperson reported today. The suspected spy is wanted in connection with the January 2010 assassination of…
Mossad agent denied official entry into London
The UK’s upset about the Mossad allegedly using British passports in an assassination operation earlier this year; in retaliation, the Mossad has been banned from placing an agent in Israel’s embassy in London. Although Israel has not…
Two suspected spies executed in Gaza
On Thursday April 15, two Gazans convicted by Hamas’s military courts in 2008 and 2009 of collaborating with Israel, were executed by firing squad and dropped off at the main hospital in Gaza City, their bodies riddled with bullets. According to Palestinian law, spying…
Former spy arrested in Israel for breaking parole
Mordechai Vanunu, once a low-level technician at an Israeli nuclear plant who served 18 years in prison for espionage against Israel, was arrested on Monday for violating the terms of his parole, which…
Bracing for the worst
By Haggai Carmon
While the world eyes Dubai’s failing economy with great concern, across the bay, Iran sees opportunity. Dubai is the only oil-free city-state of the United Arab Emirates. Until mid-November, it was best known for its spectacular economy and luxurious high-rises.
Intelligence services the world over, however, have long regarded Dubai as a rat’s nest of…
Imprisoned spy denounces deal with Hamas
Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel and imprisoned in 1987, has spoken out against the deal Israel is currently making with the terrorist group Hamas in order to…
Ex-spy shot to death in Moscow
The former Jewish spy Shabtai von Kalmanovic was killed in his car yesterday in Moscow not far from Russian Prime Minister Putin’s office. A triple citizen of Israel, Russia and Lithuania, Kalmanovic spied for…
FBI exposes U.S. spy for Israel
It seems that the FBI has caught former NASA scientist Stewart Nozette red-handed. As a result of an undercover sting operation, during which Nozette accepted $11,000 in exchange for classified U.S. information, he…
Arab Israeli feeding intel to Hezbollah?
Rawi Sultani, an Arab Israeli belonging to the same gym as the Israeli Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, has been accused of collaborating with Hezbollah plans to assassinate Ashkenazi. It is believed by Israeli officials that…
Lebanon: Israeli spy toll increases
On Tuesday, Lebanon’s As-Safir newspaper published a detailed update on the 22 most recently arrested ‘Israeli spies’ – part of the spy hunt that has been going on since April of this year. In case you were wondering, when…
Israel develops spying snake
Although robotic serpents are not a brand-new idea, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been developing a robot spy snake capable of recording both video and audio across a variety of battlefield terrains. The robot is about 6.5 feet long and…
23 years later, aging spy fined $50K
An 85-year old American living in a retirement community in New Jersey was fined $50,000 for spying on the U.S. on behalf of Israel in the 1980s. He avoided a jail term because…
Lebanon spy count at 25
On Thursday, Lebanon officially accused four additional people with spying on behalf of Israel, which according to an AFP judicial source, brings the total charged since the start of 2009 to 25. The Lebanese spy hunt is going full steam ahead and shows no sign of…
Israel plotting to kill Hezbollah leader soon?
Senior member of Hezbollah Nawaf al-Mussawi says Israel is plotting to assassinate Hezbollah’s big chief Hassan Nasrallah, and that Israel’s planned home front drill is really a way for the country to…