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CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES
4 September 2010
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 IRANIAN SPY SER-
VICES MISTRUST
EACH OTHER– IN
SHOOTOUT 1
 U.N. INVESTIGATION
REVEALS LEBANON
AT FAULT AGAINST
ISRAEL 1
 RUSSIAN GRU GEN-
ERAL FOUND DEAD
IN TURKISH WATERS
1 belong to Iran. Members of
 U.S. INTELLIGENCE
VIEW IRAQ POLITI-
CAL STALEMATE AS
BIGGEST THREAT TO
IRAQI SECURITY 1
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T E H R A N I R A N ing nuclear secrets to the West,
Intelligence sources have
revealed that a shootout two
weeks ago outside a luxury
high-rise building in Northern
Tehran’s most exclusive
neighborhood of Shaid Bebee
(or mini city), was one of
spies versus spies.
Their problem- both factions
the Ministry of Intelligence
(MOIS) clashed with plain
clothes members of the Revo-
lutionary Guards (IRGC).
The two rival intelligence
services clashed after an al-
leged break-in to an IRGC
officer’s apartment and find-
ing bugs and electronic sur-
veillance cameras. On their
way out of the building with
their findings, the MOIS were
attacked by Revolutionary
Guards.
“IRGC nuclear directors
suspect politicians of betray-
ISRAEL
A U.N. investigation into a
deadly skirmish on the Israeli
-Lebanese border recently has
determined that Lebanon's
army caused the clash in vio-
lation of a 2006 peace deal,
an Israeli diplomat said last
Monday.
U.N. peacekeepers in south-
ern Lebanon, known as UNI-
FIL, said earlier this month
that Israeli soldiers were op
A Global Threat Mitigation Firm
MIDDLE EAST BRIEFS
IRAQ
while the MOIS sees disloyalty
to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali US spy agencies view the
Khamenei in the Ahmadinejad “ political stalemate in Iraq
regime. as the biggest threat to se-
curity in Iraq as the Ameri-
The incident which quickly be- can military scales back its
came secreted, reveals it is the
mission in the country, a
IRGC who head up Iran’s nu- senior official said last
clear program that suspect high week.
ranking Iranian politicians of
selling/trading Iran’s nuclear Although severely weak-
secrets to Western intelligence. ened, Al-Qaeda's branch in
Iraq will also remain a dan-
ger as well as Iran's at-
SYRIA tempts to launch attacks on
Iraqi authority, the senior
The deputy head of GRU, the intelligence official, who
Russian military's overseas intel- asked not to be named, told
ligence arm of Russian military, reporters.
was found dead– described as “a
tragic swimming accident.” He "The greater concern is
political reconciliation"
apparently drowned off the shore
among the country's Sunni,
of Syrian Latakia– but his body Shiite and Kurdish leaders,
was recovered in Turkish waters. said the official.
He previously headed up the
North Caucasus branch in clan- Iraqi politicians have so
destine operations against al far failed to form a new
Qaeda and Chechen insurgents. government since March
parliamentary elections,
and the official said rival
factions apparently could
operating inside Israel on not agree on how to divvy
Aug. 3 when a firefight broke up key positions in the
cabinet.
out with Lebanese troops in
the bloodiest border violence
His comments echoed con-
since a 2006 war.
cerns across the US gov-
Israel's deputy ambassador to ernment over Iraq's politi-
the United Nations, Haim cal deadlock, as President
Waxman stated, "The Leba- Barack Obama marked the
formal end to the US com-
nese Armed Forces opening
bat mission in Iraq.
fire, which triggered the ex-
change, constitutes a serious
violation of resolution 1701 End
and a flagrant breach of the
cessation of hostilities."