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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
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On how Israel developed its intelligence on Hezbollah.
The Israelis built a visual map of Lebanon that could detect the slightest changes in infrastructure. Electronic surveillance reached into every part of their lives.
"Once a Hizbollah operative is identified, his daily patterns of move... See more
In the early hours of July 3, 2014, two Black Hawks full of Delta operators crossed the border from Jordan into Syria, flying fast across the desert. Their destination was a compound outside the town of Raqqa, on the north bank of the Euphrates in north-central Syria. It was there, U.S. intelligence analysts believed, that a group calling itself th
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The missions enabled JSOC to build a detailed picture of the network that moved jihadists from Aleppo and Damascus airports through the Syrian section of the Euphrates River Valley until they crossed into Iraq near Al Qaim. After several years, one name stood out as Zarqawi’s master facilitator in Syria: Abu Ghadiya. The United States tried to brin
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