Iran forms elite security unit after Stuxnet assassination
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/52875-iran-forms-elite-security-unit-after-stuxnet-assassination Aharon Etengoff | Sun 5th Dec 2010, 04:52 pm Iran forms elite security unit after Stuxnet assassination Aharon Etengoff | Sun 5th Dec 2010, 04:52 pm Tehran has formed an elite security unit to protect nuclear scientists after failing to prevent the assassination of a high-level Stuxnet expert attempting to counter the voracious worm <http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/52658-stuxnet-kills-iranian-nuke-centrifuges> . Indeed, as TG Daily previously reported, Prof. Majid Shahriari was killed in a drive-by shooting <http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/52766-report-iranian-stuxnet-expert-assassinated-in-tehran> that also involved the planting and detonation of explosives by unknown operatives on speeding motorcycles. According to <http://debka.com/article/20429/> DebkaFile, the new unit will be jointly administered by Iran's Intelligence Ministry (MOIS) and the Quds Brigade <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quds_Force> (نیروی قدس) of the Revolutionary Guards <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps> (IRGC). Iran forms elite security unit after Stuxnet assassinationIts task: To provide nuclear scientists and their families with the same level of security offered to high-ranking leaders of the Ahmadinejad regime. "The decision to establish an [elite] unit with upgraded <http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/52875-iran-forms-elite-security-unit-after-stuxnet-assassination> security arrangements for the nuclear program's staff and their families was taken to halt [a] stampede for [the] exits," explained DebkaFile analysts. "[As such], until the new unit is in place, the details guarding government and military VIPs will stand guard over the program's staff. [In addition], top scientists are to be provided with armored-plated vehicles [capable of] withstanding sticky bombs and RPGs." It should also be noted that Ali Akhbar Salehi - chairman of Iran's Atomic Energy Comission - has confirmed that a massive security shakeup is ongoing. "We [definitely] have been pursuing serious protective measures for hundreds of our scientists and experts since last year," he said. "And, based on [a] recent decision, we are to increase protective measures multi-fold and take other steps as well." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
