The “BND Affair”: “Revelations” Unrevealed 2
[For background, see “The BND Affair”: “Revelations” Unrevealed] The so-called “BND Affair” – that is, the apparently “scandalous” possibility that two German intelligence agents present in Iraq during...
View ArticleOsthoff Affair: All BND?
The following from a report by the German television magazine Report München [Munich Report]. According to investigations by the ARD television magazine “Munich Report”, the first negotiations with the...
View ArticleSelective “Revelations”: The NYTimes and the “BND Affair”
Citing a “classified German review”, an article in today’s NYTimes advances new claims to the effect that the German intelligence officers based in Iraq during the Iraq War aided the US-led war effort...
View ArticleThe BND: Getting Information, not Giving It
While the NYTimes continues its campaign to convince its readers that the German intelligence agents stationed in Iraq during the Iraq War were “helping” the US, a spokesperson for their employer,...
View ArticleWhat is German Intelligence Doing in Iraq?
Regular Trans-Int readers will undoubtedly remember Susanne Osthoff: the burqa-wearing German archaeologist who was allegedly kidnapped in Iraq last December and then released following payment of a...
View ArticleThe “BND Affair” Redux
What were two BND agents doing in Baghdad during the Iraq War in 2003? “Helping” the American army? Following the testimony of the two agents before the intelligence committee of the German Bundestag...
View ArticleMore Praise for German Intelligence (from Hamas)
A Monday report from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) contains high praise for the role being played by Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, in the ongoing negotiations for the...
View ArticleThe Strange Career of Wikileaks
If we are to judge by its “Collateral Murder” video and campaign, WikiLeaks is not the website — and perhaps not the organization — that it once was. I use the word “campaign” in the sense, more...
View ArticleGerman Intelligence: 90 Al-Qaeda Attacks in Syria in Last Six Months
German intelligence estimates that “around 90” terror attacks, which “can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups,” were carried out in Syria between the end of...
View ArticleIn Bed with the Brotherhood? America, Germany and the Muslim Brothers
In light of the current American administration’s rapprochement with the Muslim Brotherhood, it is hardly surprising that many observers would regard a recent book by former Wall Street Journal...
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