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By Bayard & Holmes
Pilgrim on a Lonely Journey
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper Bayard This is the week of the mass American pilgrimage. Thanksgiving, more than any other holiday, is the day we Americans travel home. It is the one holiday we all share, no matter what our religion. The day when we gather as...
RIC PRADO and BLACK OPS: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
BAYARD & HOLMES~ Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Since 2010, Bayard & Holmes have honored either an individual or a group of people from the Intelligence Community ("IC") on October 31, our Love-A-Spook Day. This year, retired CIA Counterterrorist...
Terrorism 101: Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo Gas Attacks
Bayard & Holmes~ Jay Holmes If You Meet the Buddha On the Road to Shambhala, Kill Him Quick On the morning of March 20, 1995, as workers in Tokyo, Japan, crowded into the city’s efficient subway system, five members of a political-religious cult...
The Three Little Spy Pigs
Bayard & Holmes~ Jay Holmes On September 14, 2021, the US Justice Department released a statement concerning two ex-US Intel employees and one ex-US Military employee who were caught committing two very serious crimes. (See Three Former U.S....
The French (Dis)Connection, or WTH Just Happened with France?
Bayard & Holmes~ Jay Holmes On September 15, 2021, US President Biden announced that the United States is entering a new Security Agreement with Australia and the United Kingdom. He explained that a major feature of the new agreement will be the United...
Terrorism 101: The Guy Fawkes Fawke Up
Bayard & Holmes~ Jay Holmes On November 4, 1605, the night before King James I of England VI of Scotland was to open a session of Parliament, a search of the basement of the House of Lords turned up thirty-six barrels of gunpowder and a man by the name...
Twenty-Year Journey to the Graveyard of Empires
~ Piper Bayard Twenty years ago on 9/11, we all watched as the towers came down. We all know where we were and what we were doing. We all remember the hush that fell over the nation, as for the first time since the Berlin Wall fell, the fact that we were...
Terrorism 101: Roots of Terror
Bayard & Holmes~ Jay Holmes Whenever media pundits discuss terrorism, they often mention the term “Roots of Terror.” Usually, the term is used when someone is trying to make the case that every given instance of terror throughout history has...
Afghanistan–The 5400, And Where We Go From Here
~ Piper Bayard Since the last post, Afghanistan Crisis Update August 29-30, the US military departed Kabul, and Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) closed. President Biden and his staff are treating this as "Mission Accomplished" and brushing off the...
Afghanistan Crisis Update Aug 29-30, 2021
~ Piper Bayard* I've been compiling news and links on the Afghanistan Evacuation Crisis, arising after President Biden's withdrawing of the US military ahead of securing any American, NATO, other allied citizens, or our Afghan interpreters, assets, and...
Afghanistan Crisis Update, Aug 27 – 28, 2021
~ Piper BayardI’ve been compiling news and links on the Afghanistan Evacuation Crisis, arising after President Biden’s withdrawing of the US military ahead of securing any American, NATO, other allied citizens, or our Afghan interpreters, assets, and their...
Afghanistan Crisis Update, Evening, August 26, 2021
~ Piper BayardAugust 26, 2021, Evening in the United StatesNow confirmed 12 US troops were killed in today's two suicide bombing attacks, eleven US Marines and one US Navy sailor. At least 60 people dead and counting. Over 200 injured. ISIS Khorasan...
Afghanistan Crisis Updates August 25-26, 2021
~ Piper BayardI've been compiling news and links on the Afghanistan Evacuation Crisis, arising after President Biden's withdrawing of the US military ahead of securing any American, NATO, other allied citizens, or our Afghan interpreters, assets, and their...
Afghanistan Crisis Updates Aug 17 – 24, 2021
~ Piper BayardI began posting FaceBook updates on the Afghanistan Crisis created by the sudden withdrawal of US troops on August 17. More US troops were sent into Afghanistan to secure the Kabul airport as the Taliban overran the country and the city of...
Remembering Jack Downing
Bayard & Holmes~ Jay Holmes Former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Jack Gregory Downing passed away on June 27, 2021, but the words “Jack Downing” will forever live on as an antonym to “politician” in the Intelligence Community’s lexicon. He was...
Really, Saudi Arabia? You Call That an Assassination?
Bayard & Holmes~ Piper Bayard & Jay HolmesThe assassination of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is once more in the news now that the Biden administration is "recalibrating" the long-standing relationship between the United States and...
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