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Posted on  Nov.13, 2018  in  Intelligence ,  International ,  Israel ,  Missile Defense ,  Nuclear ,  Nuclear Weapons ,  Space by  Matt Korda Amid a busy few weeks of nuclear-related news, an Israeli researcher made a very surprising OSINT discovery that flew somewhat under the radar. As explained in a  Medium  article, Israeli GIS analyst Harel Dan noticed that when he accidentally adjusted the noise levels of the imagery produced from the SENTINEL-1 satellite constellation, a bunch of colored Xs suddenly appeared all over the globe. SENTINEL-1’s C-band  Synthetic Aperture Radar  (SAR) operates at a centre frequency of 5.405 GHz, which conveniently sits within the range of the  military frequency  used for land, airborne, and naval radar systems (5.250-5.850 GHz)—including the AN/MPQ-53/65 phased array radars that form the backbone of a Patriot battery’s command and control system. Therefore, Harel correctly hypothesized that some of the Xs that appeared in the SENTINEL-1 imag

Source: fas.org Blurring of satellite images by Russian mapping service Yandex maps reveals ‘secret’ military facilities,  Matt Korda a Research Associate for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, discovered . According to Korda, Google Earth also occasionally applies the blurring at the request of governments, who would wish to keep their facilities secret. “France, for example, has asked Google to obscure all imagery of its prisons after a French gangster successfully conducted a Hollywood-inspired jailbreak involving drones, smoke bombs, and a stolen helicopter(!)—and Google has  agreed  to comply by the end of 2018.” Yandex maps is Russia’s leading mapping service, and it evidently also agreed to selectively blur out specific sites; however, it has done that only for Israel and Turkey. The areas range from large complexes, like airfields and arms and munition warehouses, to small inconspicuous buildings in city blocks. According to

Members of Kosovo Security Force. IMAGE: Visar Kryeziu/Associated Press UPDATE:  The Russian Foreign Ministry released a statement commeting on the sitaution. The Russian side described the decision to form the Kosovo Army as an apparent violation of the UN Security Council resolution 1244 and said that this move leads to a further escalation in the Balkans. The foreign ministry also slammed the behavior of some NATO, US and EU politicians, who’d claimed that the creation of the Kosovo Army is not changing the core of the Kosovo Security Force. The minsitry pointed out that in fact the move will boost the number of Kosovo fighters by two times, lead to the creation of reserves and change the essence of the force. The Russian side noted that the US and NATO are acctively training Kosovo fighters and supplying them with weapons and equipment. Kosovo “Prime Minister” Ramush Haradinaj, who has repeatedly threatened region with the resumption of hostilities, was described as an ex

ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE: REUTERS / Mohamed Azakir Lebanon foiled a plot by militants based in the Syrian province of Idlib to carry out 2 attacks this year against places of worship and Lebanese army positions, Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said on December 10. During a televised news conference, the attacks were timed to coincide with Lebanon’s general election, which took place in May. The Internal Security Forces monitored the plot and thwarted it. The province of Idlib is a part of the last remaining militant stronghold in Syria. A major part of it is held by extremist militant groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda). These are the same “moderates” that the US-led bloc is defending when it claims that the Syrian Army should not employ a military solution in the area if the peace is not reached by diplomatic measrues.

On Dcember 10, the Turkish Interior Ministry released a new report providing a detailed look at the security situation in the country in the period from December 3 to December 10. According to the statement, the Turkish Army and security forces carried out 2,817 anti-terror operations across the country “neutralizing” 26 terrorists. Authorities detained 4,677 suspects in variuos crimes: 3,338 – crimes linked to drugs and smugling; 153 – crimes linked to illegal migration; 1,163 – terror-related crimes. The army and security forces also seized 40 guns, 2 grenades, 2,027 ammunitions and 428 kg of explosive materials. Turkish forces destroyed 40 shelters belonging to terrorist cells as well as 4 IEDs and mines. Click to see the full-size image

Click to see the full-size image Group of Israelis are suspected of running a child sex trafficking network in Colombia. According to a report by the  Times of Israel the number of suspects is 14 , while  Haaretz claims it is 12. The office of Colombia’s attorney general said eight of the suspects have been arrested, including six Israelis. The video shows Colombian police carry out an arrest at one of the locations: Fiscalía Colombia ✔ @FiscaliaCol 5/5 # ATENCIÓN 8 presuntos responsables de explotación y esclavitud sexual en # Colombia fueron capturados: 6 israelíes, entre ellos uno de los señalados cabecillas, Mor Zohar; y 2 colombianos, entre ellos un policía que presuntamente entregó información privilegiada de operativos 68 23:38 - 9 Dec 2018 54 people are talking about this Twitter Ads information and privacy The alleged sex trafficking ring provided Israeli tourists with “tourism packages” which includ

ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE: Baykar Makina The Kiev government delivered a large shipment of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) to the frontline near the town of Gorlovka, the head of the press service of the Office of the People’s Militia of the Donetks People’s Republic (DPR),  Daniel Bezsonov said on November 9 th . According to Bezsonov, using these UAVs, the Ukrainian Air Force is going to stage a chemical provocation in the Donbass and deliver attacks on critical facilities of the DPR. “Our intelligence obtained reliable data on the arrival at the Gorlovka direction by the train of a large number of drone UAVs like the Warmate-1 and Bayraktar TB2. The latter is a joint production of Ukraine and Turkey, which can carry up to 70 kilograms of payload. The Ukrainian authorities recently boasted about the purchase of this UAV,” Bezsonov said. He also added that, according to anonymous sources at the operation headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Joint Forces Operation