by Andrew Campbell | 22 Mar 2025 | Australian political controversies, Chinese intelligence, Clandestine nuclear threats, Cold war (1917 to 1991), Counterintelligence, Deception, Global jihad, Intelligence failures, Misinformation, Russian intelligence
680 words, 4 minutes read time. “Since its inception, the discipline of counterintelligence has been a murky and controversial business, plagued by a persistent perception of failure, whether spies are caught or not, and an inconsistent level of attention and...
by Andrew Campbell | 20 Jun 2004 | Australian political controversies, Counterintelligence, Global jihad, Intelligence failures, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
4,184 words, 22 minutes read time. ‘To wage jihad in the path of Allah is the apex of Islam. It will remain lawful until the establishment of the Hour. The Muslim sects [ahl al-Qiblah] which stand outside the fold of the Sunnah are all threatened with destruction in...
by Andrew Campbell | 4 May 2004 | Deception, Global jihad
3,503 words, 19 minutes read time. Woody Allen’s comic masterpiece Zelig, features Leonard Zelig the ‘human chameleon’ with a multiple personality disorder – an ongoing identity crisis – who mimetically identifies with every famous personality he meets. He...
by Andrew Campbell | 23 Apr 2004 | Deception, Global jihad
59 words, 1 minute read time. Pakistan-born Faheem Khalid Lodhi, aka Abu Hamza, of the west Sydney suburb of Punchbowl, was charged Thursday 23rd April 2004 by Australian Federal Police officers with three of Australia’s most serious terrorism-related offences....
by Andrew Campbell | 12 Apr 2004 | Global jihad
638 words, 3 minutes read time. Australia is a great place if you are a transnational terrorist. Terrorist Willie Brigitte was well briefed. He had been told by his shadowy controllers in Pakistan to travel to Australia, as LET/Al Qaeda strategists had correctly...
by Andrew Campbell | 15 Feb 2004 | Global jihad
5,819 words, 31 minutes read time. Last week Mr. Howard, the Australian Prime Minister, told parliament that new intelligence reports had recently surfaced, showing that al-Qaeda had actively been seeking targets in Australia in 2000 and 2001 long before the 11...
by Andrew Campbell | 7 Feb 2004 | Counterintelligence, Deception, Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
696 words, 4 minutes read time. “A strike that does not kill me makes me stronger.’ – Abu Mohamed Al-Able, Al Qaeda identity August 2003 – In August 2003 Al-Majallah, a London based Saudi-owned Arabic weekly publication, published an...
by Andrew Campbell | 16 Dec 2003 | Global jihad, Intelligence failures, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
4,080 words, 22 minutes read time. ‘These people roam around freely’ Early May 2003 – the French Consulate, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Non! Willie Brigitte was becoming agitated. We will not accept it monsieur! The consular officials examine the...
by Andrew Campbell | 11 Nov 2003 | Deception, Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
3,921 words, 21 minutes read time. Can ASIO ride it with Sheikh Omran? September 2003. Melbourne Australia. Sheikh Mohamed Omran aka Abu Rayman Emir and Secretary–General of the Wahabi-Salaffi fundamentalist Islamic organization known as Ahl as Sunnah wal Jamah (The...
by Andrew Campbell | 13 Oct 2003 | Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Misinformation, Terrorism
364 words, 2 minutes read time. “Since Islam is superior to all human conditions and earthly religions, it permits spying for itself but not for others”. Source: Al Qaeda Manual Eleventh Lesson: ‘Espionage.’ UK BM/75. Islam has a long history of espionage as it is an...
by Andrew Campbell | 22 Sep 2003 | Counterintelligence, Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
1,183 words, 6 minutes read time. Background: February 1996. A sun- drenched spring day in Algiers. A van packed with 300 kg of TNT weaves slowly through the downtown traffic and stops outside Soir d’Algerie newspaper office as Mohamed Sifaoui steps onto the pavement...
by Andrew Campbell | 17 Mar 2003 | Global jihad
2,970 words, 16 minutes read time. ‘I know some people who might be able to provide you with something Top Secret.’ Yosri Fouda, Investigative Journalist and Al Jazeera London Bureau Chief is visiting Islamabad Pakistan after completing his documentary on the plight...
by Andrew Campbell | 16 Mar 2003 | Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Misinformation, Terrorism
665 words, 4 minutes read time. The Opening move: Cairo 2001 Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al Thani Chairman of the Board of Al-Jazeera was in a discursive mode as he spoke to TBS Senior Editor Abdullah Schleifer and the then managing Editor Sarah Sullivan in 2001.”We have...
by Andrew Campbell | 14 Dec 2002 | Deception, Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Misinformation, Terrorism
1,322 words, 7 minutes read time. Tradecraft. Persona. Deception. Disinformation. Cover: Western operational terms and techniques. But, Islamic terrorists have their own terms: taqiyya (pronounced tark-e-ya):precautionary dissimulation or deception and...
by Andrew Campbell | 6 Nov 2002 | Deception, Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
An interview with the most reverend frank. E. Venal archbishop of Melbourne, Australia 1,405 words, 7 minutes read time. Archbishop Frank Venal graduated from Melbourne’s exclusive Shelter School and attended Vanity College at the University of Melbourne where he...
by Andrew Campbell | 31 Oct 2002 | Global jihad, Terrorism
2,535 words, 13 minutes read time. c accomplice? Who predicted that the ‘snipers’ were using a customized van for assassinations? Not the 600 FBI personnel, 454 federal agents, 101 ATF analysts, 59 inspectors, 50 secret service agents and local police from five...
by Andrew Campbell | 19 Oct 2002 | Intelligence failures
ASIO / ONA / DFAT / DIO Directors should be dismissed 2,378 words, 13 minutes read time. No person with even a cursory or fractional knowledge of the culture of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) would place the lives of Australian citizens – and...
by Andrew Campbell | 6 Oct 2002 | Clandestine nuclear threats
The nuclear suitcase bombs threat 3,561 words, 19 minutes read time. In September 2002, the head of Ukraine’s Communist party admitted that some 200 Soviet nuclear warheads had ‘disappeared’. The Russian newspaper ‘Pravda’ subsequently reported...
by Andrew Campbell | 23 Sep 2002 | Global jihad
1,137 words, 6 minutes read time. Yousef al Khamal, eased his red truck carefully out of the driveway of his modest weatherboard cottage in Gage Street Lakemba. He waved cheerfully to his wife Belah and an elderly neighbour walking a dog as he drove off down the...
by Andrew Campbell | 19 Aug 2002 | Counterintelligence, Intelligence failures, Terrorism
732 words, 4 minutes read time. c The controversy misses a core truth: that intelligence organisations are political organisations in which directors and senior management call, or don’t call, the shots. The management solution is – the mandatory meeting...
by Andrew Campbell | 10 May 2002 | Counterintelligence
1,172 words, 6 minutes read time. Subject: Australian Government’s Post Sept 11 assessment of terrorist threat to Australia 0900 hours Canberra, Australia I began the discussion by pointing out to [name deleted] that the Australian government was reliant on...
by Andrew Campbell | 10 Mar 2002 | Global jihad
Islam hates “the other” 1,949 words, 10 minutes read time. Contrary to ill-informed media comment imbued with liberal assumptions, the kidnapping and decapitation of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan was not an act of ‘senseless or...
by Andrew Campbell | 11 Feb 2002 | Australian political controversies, Misinformation
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) 1,506 words, 8 minutes read time. Since September 11, the Bush Administration has restricted Government information amidst predictable outcries from civil libertarians, media commentators and the usual...
by Andrew Campbell | 15 Jan 2002 | Intelligence failures
The rise of the legal mystique, the decline of intelligence capability and the rise in terrorism. 355 words, 2 minutes read time. The history of ASIO, FBI and CIA over the past decade leads inexorably to the conclusion that intelligence organisations subject to the...
by Andrew Campbell | 25 Nov 2001 | Global jihad
1,212 words, 6 minutes read time. Professor Comfort is the Editor of “Journal of Ethnic Virtue” and “Journal of Pacificism in Muslim Societies,”and the “Journal of Modern Lebanese Military Ethics”. He is President of the American Society for the Study of Jihad and is...
by Andrew Campbell | 11 Nov 2001 | Global jihad
Australia’s anti-semitic multicultural Mufti with many masks 2,045 words, 11 minutes read time. On 27 September 2001, a combined force of approximately 70 law enforcement and intelligence personnel seized passports, financial records and documents during a search of a...
by Andrew Campbell | 26 Oct 2001 | Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
402 words, 2 minutes read time. The United States is not at war with Islam; Bin Laden is not representative of Islam; Bin Laden is an extreme form of Islam; Islam is a tolerant peaceful religion; most Muslims are opposed to Bin Laden; Bin Laden represents an extreme...
by Andrew Campbell | 19 Oct 2001 | Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
Inflammatory Australian Muslim Web Site – pro Bin Laden and pro Taliban 167 words, 1 minute read time. On Thursday 18 September 2001 the West Australian Islamic network emailed its subscribers: “America has declared war on Islam. The bombs are now dropping. What...
by Andrew Campbell | 15 Oct 2001 | Global jihad, Islamic terrorism, Terrorism
331 words, 2 minutes read time. First year students of symbolic logic are introduced to the propositional connectives and, if, or, but then. Recent ‘debates’ and controversy concerning the terrorist attacks on the United States have highlighted...
by Andrew Campbell | 12 Oct 2001 | Global jihad
684 words, 4 minutes read time. Attention is drawn to a significant article “Popper Revisited, or what is Wrong With Conspiracy Theories’ by Charles Pigdon, a philosopher, published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol 25.No1, March 1993, 3-34....
