The former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center has suggested that counterinsurgency tactics used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan should be applied to ‘domestic extremists’ inside the US. NPR reports that Robert Grenier, who directed the CIA’s Counterterrorism program from 2004 to 2006, declared “We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained […]
Posts Tagged ‘counterterror’
CIA Counterterror Chief Suggests Going To War Against ‘Domestic Insurgents’
February 4th, 2021 Awake Goy
#SueMeSaudi: Twitter responds to Saudi Arabia threats over ISIS comparison
December 2nd, 2015 Awake Goy
Neither the original tweet nor its author have been identified, but it purportedly called “ISIS-like” the Saudi decision to mete out a death sentence to Ashraf Fayadh, a 35-year-old Palestinian poet who has allegedly abandoned Islam. Under the form of Sharia law practiced in the kingdom, apostasy is a crime punishable by beheading. News of […]