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One chilling capability possessed by US/Israel combine is the covert operation technology.

By its very nature it is something that we do not have the complete information about. Many years ago yours truly saw on CIA website that they do take up covert operations.

Then we have occasional spilling out of secret of an operation or another there. That is all.

Few years ago details about two British snipers, who were earlier posted in Afghanistan, were accidentally leaked. One of them had shot 43 people in Afghanistan.

Here US is worrying about more cans of worms getting opened.

Let us have, in this thread, an assessment of what we know about such things.

for bringing our focus on critical issues facing the Ummah- issues of life and death, preservation and prosperity of Deen, of which 'covert operations' directly affect.

For a disbelieving military operation to clandestinely invade a Muslim land, attack, kill, and kidnap/capture Muslim targets is a crisis- A CRISIS!!!!!!!


First, this issue of 'covert operations' exists in the Sunnah of the Prophet as addressed in the Holy Quran.

(4:71) Believers! Always be on your guard against encounters. Then (as circumstance demands) either advance in detachments or advance in a body.


When I read the book Muhammad as Military Leader when I first became Muslim, it opened my eyes to the genius, the mastery of statescraft of the Prophet :saaw:.

It also revealed that he understood the importance of retaining 'freedom from kufr', aka political authority for the Muslims and sovereignty for Allah alone.
Rahman's book was simple, but it revealed the practicality of how the Prophet included both almost continual conventional military patrolling of Muslim boundaries, as well as a sophisticated network of trusted intelligence sources, clandestine and formal sources. Hence, the Prophet had "sources" and assets among the enemies and in the boundary areas of the Darul Islam in order to ascertain immediate uptodate activites and events.

It is a reality of having a state and statecraft: a military and state must also have clandestine operations and operatives. It is reality of military science.

Hence, Prophet ordered various covert operations and missions against the enemies of Allah.
So believers should realize this matter of concern for the affairs of the Ummah, even in covert operations, IS a part of the Sunnah.



That being said, how should we look at things today?


A CIA analyst stated that in today's world of internet, satellite media, mass global communications, 80% of intel can be obtained from open, public, unsecure sources. Like the standard news media, internet websites, memoirs of politicans, etc.

The other 20% of intel?

One can speculate that the other 20% consists of actual code names and passcodes, operatives, actual plans and activities, are kept secret, or at least secure.


more later