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“Damned Lies and Statistics”, Al-Qaeda Edition

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 February 2026

This entry was posted in Foreign Policy and tagged 9/11, 9/11 Commission Report, Africa, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, al-Shabab, AQAP, AQIM, Australia, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, caliphate, Global War on Terror, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, ideology, Intelligence, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting, Osama bin Laden, September 11, September 11 attacks, Somalia, strategy, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, Yemen on February 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State’s Al-Naba Editorial on the Bondi Hanukkah Massacre

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Amaq News Agency, Amn al-Kharji, Antisemitism, Australia, Belgium, Bondi Beach, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, Edgar Torres-Tovar, Gaza War, global terrorism, HAMAS, ideology, Intelligence, Internet, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, jihadism, munafiqun, mushrikun, Muslims, nationalism, Naveed Akram, Palestine, Palmyra, populism, Sajid Akram, Sydney, Syria, Tadmur, terrorism, United States, William Howard, William Nathaniel Howard on December 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Australia’s Failures to Deal with Islamism and Antisemitism Led to the Bondi Hanukkah Massacre

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Israel and tagged Antisemitism, Australia, Bondi Beach, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Jews, jihadism, Lebanese gangs, Naveed Akram, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, organised crime, Sajid Akram, terrorism on December 15, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Iran’s Global Antisemitic Jihad Reaches Australia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Adass Israel Synagogue, Ahmad Sadeghi, AMIA bombing, Anthony Albanese, Antisemitism, ASIO, Australia, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Bondi, Britain, Burgas bus bombing, Communism, Four Lions, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, ideology, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jews, jihadism, Khobar Towers bombing, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Lewis’ Continental Kitchen, Melbourne, Mike Burgess, Nomads bikie gang, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Palestinians, Petrov Affair, Sayed Mohammed Moosawi, Sayed Moosawi, Soviet Union, Sydney, terrorism on September 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

No Name, No Past, No Trace: The Strange Case of “Peter Bergmann”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 July 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Australia, Londonderry, mystery, Northern Ireland, Peter Bergmann, Republic of Ireland, Rosses Point, Sligo, Somerton Man, true crime, United Kingdom on July 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Russia and Hawaii: A Case of Colonialism Gone Sideways

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 August 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Alexander Baranov, Alexander I, Alexander II, America, Australia, Bering, Brazil, California, Captain James Cook, Christianity, colonialism, Dom Pedro I, Europe, exploration, Fort Alexander, Fort Barclay-de-Tolly, Fort Elizabeth, Fort Ross, French Revolution, Georg Schäffer, Hawaii, Holy Alliance, Imperialism, Kamehameha I, Kamehameha the Great, Kauai, Kaumualii, Napoleon Bonaparte, Niihau, Russia, Russian-American Company, Sandwich Islands, Shelikhov-Golikov Company, Tsar, United States, Waimea on August 30, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Progress of the Islamic State’s New Foreign Terrorism Campaign

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 August 2024

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks and tagged Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Naba, Amaq News Agency, Anis Amri, Antisemitism, Australia, Austria, Baghuz, caliphate, Christianity, Crocus City Hall, Dagestan, Germany, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Ibrahim Boudina, ideology, India, IRA, Iran, Irish Republican Army, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic Revolution, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Israel, Issa al-Hasan, Jews, jihadism, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, lone wolf, lone wolves, Mar Mari Emmanuel, Mehdi Nemmouche, Mohamed Abu Dhess, Mohammad Daleel, October 7 Pogrom, Palestine, Palestinians, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Riaz Khan Ahmadzai, Russia, Safia Schmitter, Salafism, sectarianism, Sikhism, Solingen, Stephen Paddock, Syria, Taha Falaha, Tajikistan, Tajiks, Tawhid cell, terrorism, Tunisia, Turkey on August 27, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Northern Ireland Cares Deeply About Israel and the Palestinians. Why?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged active measures, Africa, African National Congress, ANC, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Angola, Anti-Treaty IRA, ANZAC, Arab slave trade, Arabs, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Arthur Griffith, Australia, Éamon de Valera, Basque ETA, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Aughrim, Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Megiddo, Battle of Naseby, Battle of the Boyne, Belfast, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, Binyamin Netanyahu, Black and Tans, Blackadder, Britain, British Empire, Catholics, Chaim Herzog, Communism, counter-intelligence, Dáil Éireann, Divis Street, Douglas Hyde, East Germany, Easter Rising, Eire, English Civil Wars, ethnic cleansing, First Judeans, First World War, Gallipoli, Germany, Glorious Revolution, Great War, Greater Syrianism, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Holocaust, Home Rule crisis, Intelligence, IRA, Iran, Ireland’s Independence War, IRGC, Irgun, Irish Civil War, Irish Free State, Irish nationalists, Irish Republican Army, Irish Volunteers, Irish War of Independence, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic slave trade, James Connolly, Jewish Legion, John Henry Patterson, Joseph Trumpeldor, Judah Maccabee, Kaiser, Kenya, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lehi, Londonderry, man-eaters of Tsavo, Mandate Palestine, mythology, nationalism, Nazi war criminals, Nazis, Nazism, Nelson Mandela, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Northumberland Street, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Old IRA, Operation LION, Orange Lodge, Orange Order, Original Irish Republican Army, Originals, Otto Skorzeny, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Protestants, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provos, Republicans, Revisionist Zionism, Ronald Storrs, Royal Fusiliers, Russia, SACP, Saint Patrick’s Day, Second Boer War, siege of Port Arthur, Six-Day War, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Soviet Union, spies, STASI, Taoiseach, terrorism, The Falls Road, The Shankill Road, The Twelfth, Uganda Railway, Ulster, Ulster Volunteer Forces, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Umkhonto weSizwe, Unionists, UVF, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Winston Churchill, Yasser Arafat, Yishuv, Young Turks, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Zion Mule Corps, Zionism, Zionists on July 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged A.G. Vislykh, Albert Grundeman, Alger Hiss, Allan Dalziel, apartheid, ASIO, ASIS, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Australian Communist Party, Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, B. A. Santamaria, Baltics, Ben Chifley, Bolshevik Revolution, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, Canada, Captive Nations, Charles Spry, China, CIA, Clement Attlee, Cold War, Committee of Information, Communism, Communist Control Act, Communist Party United States of America, corruption, CPUSA, DIABOLO, Donald Maclean, Dwight Eisenhower, E.V. Kovalenok, Ethel Rosenberg, Evdokia Kartseva, FBI, Fergan O’Sullivan, Five Eyes, France, Frankin Delano Roosevelt, Genrikh Yagoda, Geoffrey Yeend, Georgy Malenkov, Gough Whitlam, Great Terror, Greece, GRIGORII, GRU, Guy Burgess, H.C. Beckett, Henry Kerby, Herbert Evatt, Igor Gouzenko, Illegals, Imperial Japan, Imperialism, Intelligence, Jews, John Curtin, Joseph Davies, Joseph Stalin, journalists, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KI, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Korean War, Lavrentiy Beria, Legals, Liberal Party, Liberal-National Coalition, Lydia Mokras, Magnificent Five, Marxism, McCarthyism, MGB, MI5, MI6, Michael Bialoguski, mole, National Government, Nazis, Nazism, New Zealand, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolai Generalov, Nikolai Khokhlov, Nikolai Lifanov, NKVD, Operation CABIN 12, Philip Kislitsyn, Poland, Pyotr Prudnikov, Red Army, Red China, Red Scare, rezident, Rezidentura, Robert Manne, Robert Menzies, Roman Krivosh, Ron Richards, Rose-Marie Oilier, Royal Commission on Espionage, Rupert Lockwood, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, SIGINT, signals intelligence, SIS, Smith Act, South Africa, Soviet Union, spies, Sydney Harbour, Sydney Morning Herald, TASS, The Petrov Affair, totalitarianism, treason, Ukraine, Victor Kravchenko, Vladimir Petrov, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav Molotov, Whittaker Chambers, Winston Churchill, Yezhovshchina, Yuriy Rastvorov, Zinoviev Letter on April 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhaji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Tolkachev, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Chalabi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, Ahmed Chalabi, al-Qaeda, Albania, Aldrich Ames, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bay of Pigs, Bill Browder, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Dolan, Cheka, Chile, China, Christopher Steele, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, dangle, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, defectors, Dmitri Polyakov, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, double agent, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Edward Lee Howard, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FISA, FISC, Five Eyes, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Frank Church, Fusion GPS, George Blake, George Tenet, Glenn Simpson, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, Igor Danchenko, Illegals, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Congress, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacobo Arbenz, Jalal Talabani, James Jesus Angleton, Jihadi John, Jordan, Josip Broz Tito, KDP, KGB, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Magnificent Five, Marshal Tito, Masud Barzani, MI5, MI6, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Emwazi, MOSSAD, Natalia Veselnitskaya, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Deripaska, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Olga Galkina, Omar Bradley, Operation REDCAP, Operation ZAPATA, Osama bin Laden, OSS, Pakistan, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pete Bagley, Philip Agee, Pike Commission, Prague Spring, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PUK, Pyotr Deriabin, Pyotr Popov, Rolando Cubela Secades, Ronald Pelton, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Shah, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, SIGINT, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Steele Dossier, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, Taliban, Tennent Bagley, terrorism, Turkey, ULTRA secret, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vitaly Yurchenko, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wael al-Ta’i, Wafiq Samaraii, weapons of mass destruction, Wild Bill Donovan, William Colby, William Donovan, William F. Buckley, Winston Churchill, WMD, Yugoslavia, Yuri Nosenko on December 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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