[ April 18, 2024 ]
It’s only half-way through the year and already, in 2018 alone, Israel’s special fighting force, Shin Bet, has already stopped 250 Islamic terror attacks from occurring.
Shin Bet’s director, Nadav Argaman, announced the numbers during a recent meeting of visiting interior security ministers.
The planned attacks included bombings, kidnappings and shootings.
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The Jeruslaem Post has more:
Using traditional and new big-data abilities, the Shin Bet has prevented 250 terrorist attacks so far in 2018, director Nadav Argaman told a group of visiting interior security ministers Wednesday at a closed session of a Jerusalem international conference on terrorism.
Though Argaman’s presentation was closed to the public, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) provided a summary to the media.
Argaman said that the agency had succeeded in blocking major terrorist attacks involving suicide bombings, kidnappings and shootings.
The Shin Bet chief said that especially big-data abilities had helped the agency to hone in on lone-wolf attackers in a way that was impossible before Israeli intelligence advanced its abilities in massively tracking postings on social media.
Argaman said that the Shin Bet was striking the right balance between continuing its effective human intelligence collection programs and new cyber intelligence gathering abilities.
One of the flagship issues was to stay ahead of the curve when using technology to fight terrorism. He previously disclosed that under his leadership, the Shin Bet’s technological workforce has jumped from single digits to representing around one-quarter of the work force.
Argaman also emphasized the importance of “strategic cooperation with our international partners in Israel and overseas as well as with the Israeli hi-tech community and other civilian bodies.”
In May, the Jerusalem Post exclusively obtained an article by Argaman written in an intelligence journal in which he wrote that while the Shin Bet was using big data in powerful ways to fight terror, that “the world of big data and cyber confronts the intelligence community with more complex challenges than ever before.”
In December, Argaman told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the agency had thwarted over 400 terrorist attacks in 2017, including 13 suicide attacks and eight kidnappings, as well as 1,100 potential lone-wolf attacks.
He further noted at that time that in 2017, 54 attacks were successfully carried out, in comparison with 108 successful attacks in 2016.
In 2016, the Shin Bet stopped 344 major attacks, meaning the total number of thwarted and successful attacks was similar for 2016 and 2017, but the security agency succeeded in thwarting more of them in 2017.
The major improvement was seen in the 400 potential lone-wolf attacks prevented in 2016, compared to 1,100 such potential attacks in 2017.
Those numbers, however, are the subject of much debate.
Law enforcement and intelligence officials in several countries have told the Post that while Israel is a pioneer in discerning and stopping potential lone-wolf attackers before they launch an attack, the line between busting people for social media posts that are free speech and those that are dangerous incitement is a fine one.
Some of those officials refuse to use such statistics to boost their credibility when reporting to their own legislative bodies, viewing the category of “potential attacker” as being too amorphous. Sometimes the Shin Bet thwarts potential attackers by arresting them, but sometimes it counters them on social media or has a serious sit-down talk and merely issues a warning.
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9 Comments
5 years ago
>’Argaman also emphasized the importance of “strategic cooperation with our international partners in Israel and overseas as well as with the Israeli hi-tech community and other civilian bodies.”’
and:
>”Law enforcement and intelligence officials in several countries have told the Post that while Israel is a pioneer in discerning and stopping potential lone-wolf attackers before they launch an attack, the line between busting people for social media posts that are free speech and those that are dangerous incitement is a fine one.”
Unfortunately, if the FBI had ‘strategic cooperation’ with America’s high-tech community, it would probably be for the Goolag/Fakebook/Twit mafia to declare that members of the Allahu Akbar’ing community shouting “Death to America” and “Death to the Jews” were the ones practicing freedom of speech, and that Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Stephen Coughlin, etc., were the ones guilty of dangerous incitement.
5 years ago
If Israel were to deport terrorists and their families terrorism and terrorists would go down to near zero. It would cost far less than jailing the little darlings.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron rockit
Though you are probably right that deportation likely would have an effect on the number of attempts at terrorism wherever the terrorists lived, it is not the answer to the underlying problem, at least from my point of view. The philosophy that constitutes the belief system of Islam is the problem. While, it is likely, that most Muslims are not violent and reject violence, the promotion and preaching of anti-Semitism and hate for non-believers or other religious believers, is built into the philosophy that is Islam. Therefore, and despite the ability of protection agencies like Shin Bet or the F.B.I., and others offer, the underlying problem will never end. The issue is what can be done, if anything, to end the scourge that promotes terrorism? These Islamic believers, though, hopefully, few and far between, nevertheless are a curse on society and adversely affect their own people. It is sad that the few have an impact on the innocents within Islam, but the consequences of their horrible conduct must be recognized and dealt with, even if innocents will suffer. Islam not only promotes hate and will always trigger some of its believers to accept horrible Jihad like conduct, a reality the free world must face, something that seems obvious to me, especially since Islam will never reject the nonsense that promotes and preaches domination, Jihad, and denial to all people of due process and equal protection, that the conclusion is that they simply cannot live amoung non-Muslims. If we continue to allow these believers to emigrate to the U.S., I see nothing but overthrow of our societies in the future by these believers who consider their so called religion as the only acceptable belief system, while rejecting secular, though moral, government function. Though it may sound harsh, I believe the only answer is to keep them out of our free socities, prosecute those who promote their monstrous belief system of hate and overthrow, in addition to adopting a procedure to deport those who are proven haters.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
“…most Muslims are not violent and reject violence…” Funny that they don’t do anything about it. Funny that f’ing muslums never did anything about the genocides committed by their fellow muslums in the 20th century or the ten thousand Nigerian Christians already slaughtered this century.
5 years ago
Shouldn’t the headlines read, Shin Bet Prevents 250 Terrorist Attacks With 250 Bullets. One Shot One Kill – is their motto.
Annual budget of the Shin Bet is $250 dollars – shofar.
5 years ago
good job shin Bet
5 years ago
This jihad MUST be brought to an end.
