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		<title>Quds Force Commander&#8217;s Advice to Gen Petraeus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it&#8217;s previously been reported that Kassim Suleimani (or Qassem Suleimani), the commander of the IRGC&#8217;s Quds Force, made contact with U.S. forces during the battle for Basra in March 2008, hearing General David Petraeus recall the event is noteworthy. In February, the current CENTCOM commander answered questions at the Institute for the Study of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=220</link>
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		<title>Details on Suicide Bomb Attack at CIA Base &#8211; FOB Chapman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, readers, if there are any left, of this blog.  I will be more active in 2010 &#8211; my apologies for the lack of productivity last year.
STRATFOR, the private intelligence and forecasting service, has released the following information about how Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the Jordanian double agent, managed to inflict such substantial damage upon so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=215</link>
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		<title>The Intelligence Officer&#8217;s Lament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While catching up on my fiction reading, I came across this observation by an experienced but cautious CIA headquarters man in Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius. Stone, a veteran of the CIA that was not burdened with senseless rules in the days immediately following World War II, counsels Tom Rogers, the novel&#8217;s protagonist, about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=207</link>
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		<title>The Mission, the Men, and Pete Blaber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pete Blaber has written an excellent book, The Mission, the Men, and Me that uses examples from his Delta Force career to illustrate some leadership lessons. But intelligence officers and users of intelligence would gain much from applying the same lessons to the craft of intelligence.
One lesson that is particularly applicable to intelligence that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=200</link>
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		<title>SEALS Link HUMINT to Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Sheriff of Ramadi author Dick Couch details how SEALs in Iraq successfully fused human intelligence with operators who could act upon the HUMINT and contrasts the SEALs willingness to share information with the tendency of other SOF units that don&#8217;t share intelligence with other military units.
The key to the SEALs&#8217; effective intelligence operation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=195</link>
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		<title>Who Picks the Chief of Station</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philip Zelikow, who was Counselor to the Secretary of State for Secretary Rice, has written an interesting article about a turf battle between the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence on the Foreign Policy Shadow Government web site. Zelikow was sent to Iraq several times to analyze and report back to Secretary Rice. Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=191</link>
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		<title>Sorry for the absence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I try not to make the posts about me, but wanted to explain. I&#8217;ve been working on a project that has kept me away from posting. I&#8217;ll be picking it back up.  Steve O&#8217;Hern
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		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=189</link>
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		<title>SECDEF Gates: Iran&#8217;s Supply of EFPs to Afghanistan Increased</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Washington Post reported that Iran&#8217;sshipment of explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) (also known as explosively formed penetrators) into Afghanistan has slightly increased.  The Washington Post quoted Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates,
Gates also warned of Iranian interference in Afghanistan, pointing to a slightly increased flow of weapons including components of lethal munitions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=185</link>
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		<title>How the IRGC Routes Weapons to Gaza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) uses two routes to supply its weapons to Hamas in Gaza, according to Times Online.  Uzi Mahnaimi writes that the IRGC appears to be using two methods of smuggling weapons into Gaza that have been used since Iran supplied weapons to Yasser Arafat.
[T]he Iranians are attempting to smuggle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=173</link>
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		<title>IRGC Sustained Losses in Gaza While Advising Hamas Rocket Units</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in Gaza during the recent fighting reports The Bulletin (a Philadelphia based newspaper.)  David Bedein, Middle East Correspondent for The Bulletin writes that the IRGC was in Gaza to assist Hamas with firing rockets and building new, larger ones:
IRGC officers helped the Hamas regime and Islamic Jihad fire BM-21 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligencewars.com/?p=177</link>
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