CT/Foreign Intel Services Training

This course is essential for any individual or organization whose area of responsibility is the Middle East and/or terrorism.

The course will provide a foundation for the students to understand and interpret events that are currently unfolding in the Middle East and the missions, operations and methodologies of the key Middle Eastern intelligence and counterintelligence services.

Also, this course will examine the operations and methodologies of terrorist organizations that have spawned in the region.

The course covers the roots of today’s civilizational conflict with the Islamist jihad—the political beginnings of Islam and Islamic doctrine—and how this political ideology continues to define the actions of Muslim terrorists today.

The course then covers the intelligence and counterintelligence services of four key Middle Eastern countries: Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.

It looks at case studies to understand these services’ operations in and out of their own countries, and especially in the United States.

The course also provides a powerful look at the kind of tradecraft and operations security terrorists use in conducting terrorist operations.