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SPOTLIGHT

EUROPE

WIDER BUGGING POWERS FOR AUTHORITIES?

In the wake of two meetings – one in Vienna between Oct. 20-22 and the second in Madrid on Oct. 27-28 – a group of European Union law enforcement experts tabled a draft project on "interception of telecommunications in relation to new technologies" before the EU Council of Ministers on Nov. (...) [ 666 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
A CASE OF EXTREME EMBARRASSMENT
	British intelligence agencies are particularly worried about a case that will shortly be brought before the High Court in London. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €5 ]

SERBIA
CHINESE AGENCIES LOSE A FRIEND
	When Jovica Stanisic, boss of the Serbian State Security agency since 1991, was fired at the end of October Chinese intelligence lost its best friend in the Balkans. (...) [ 268 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
JOHN PODESTA
	Named White House chief-of-staff in late October in succession to Erskine Bowles, John Podesta – previously Bowles' deputy – spoke on Nov. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €5 ]

BELGIUM
DENIS GUILLAUME
	One of the most influential members of the ill-fated Ordre du Temple Solaire (OTS), 44-year-old Denis Guillaume, has been residing in Luxembourg for some months after being hired as an executive of the security firm Brink's Zeigler. (...) [ 329 words ] [ €5 ]

EGYPT
MOHAMMED ATEF
	Military commander of the al Qaeda group headed by Ussama bin Laden, Mohammed Atef, better known under the name Abu Hafs el Masry, was born 45 years ago at Quena in Upper Egypt. (...) [ 349 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
THE AGENCY THAT MISSED OUT ON FUTURE
	In a move that raises doubts about the future of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, the directorate has abolished one of its senior units – the Office of Research and Development (ORD). (...) [ 448 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
BARZAN DEFECTS AND KEEPS THE BOOTY
	Iraq's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva until this summer, Barzan al Takriti ended up asking Switzerland for political asylum last week (IN 344). (...) [ 373 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MI5 SAYS: "I TOLD YOU SO"
	The British government could have spared itself the embarrassment that followed the Oct. 26 resignation of Welsh secretary Ron Davies if prime minister Tony Blair had heeded a confidential report drawn up last year by MI5 which indicated Davies – a married man with children—was a "closet" homosexual and therefore a potential security risk because of his exposure to blackmail. (...) [ 442 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
SHABAK PROVIDES TIGHTER SECURITY FOR NETANYAHU
	In the wake of the Wye Plantation accord in late October, the VIP protection service of Shabak, Israel's general security service, has adopted a fresh strategy to help avoid a repetition of the assassination of Yitzak Rabin on Nov. (...) [ 175 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
ANNUAL ACSA CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SECURITY
	The U.S. Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) concern is organizing its 14th annual conference between Dec. (...) [ 102 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
TALKS BETWEEN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE AND BANKS ON MONEY LAUNDERING
	One of France's leading business schools, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) has joined forces with the financial public prosecutor's office (Parquet Financier de Paris) and the Forum de Paris company to organize a series of workshops devoted to money laundering and illegal financial channels on Nov. (...) [ 199 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	FRANCE
	RED HERRING IN ROLAND DUMAS SCANDAL
		An inquiry by investigative magistrates Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievksy into former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, who is under investigation in the Elf scandal, focussed unsuccessfully in October on the activities of the business intelligence company Kroll Associates (now Kroll O'Gara) in France. (...) [ 345 words ] [ €5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	PALESTINIAN JIHAD TAKES OVER FROM HAMAS
		Ten days before the Nov. 6 explosion of a car bomb in the main market-place in Jerusalem – responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Palestinian Jihad organization in Damascus – the fundamentalist organization's number two man in Lebanon, Mahmud Mohammed al Majzub, narrowly escaped death when his car was blown up outside of the Ain Helue camp near Saida. (...) [ 221 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

EUROPE
A THREE-NATION RESCO OPERATION
	The European Air Group composed of France, the United Kingdom and Italy organized a life-size combat search and rescue operation (RESCO) dubbed Volcanex 98, in southern France between Oct. (...) [ 351 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
FIRST TRUSTED THIRD PARTIES
	The Trusted Third Party (TTP) system that France adopted some months ago, but which remained theoretical up to now, has begun to take concrete shape. (...) [ 472 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
MINIATURE SUBMARINES
	Anybody poking around the Euronaval show at Le Bourget in late October could have spotted the scale model of a "Swimmer Delivery Vehicle" (SDV), a miniature submarine for frogmen built under wraps by the French company ECA. (...) [ 171 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM
MINIATURE ANTI-MISSILE WEAPONS
	France's armaments board, Delegation Generale pour l'Armement, and Britain's Defence Evaluation Research Agency have launched early development of an anti-missile protection system based on small, 40 kg missiles that will equip aircraft around the year 2015. (...) [ 154 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
NEW SUCCESS FOR CAMCOPTER
	Following an evaluation performed for Germany's Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB), the IABG company has just recommended the Camcopter UAV helicopter as the best platform for the German Army's Airborne Minefield Reconnaissance (AAMIS) program. (...) [ 93 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	EGYPT'S JIHAD FACES VITAL CHOICE
		Jamaa Islamiya's lawyer in Cairo, Montasser al Zayat, has been playing a key role over the past four months in the debate on whether the Egyptian fundamentalist movement's military wing should forsake violence. (...) [ 453 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE/SERBIA
	ULTRA-FAST ACTION ON BETRAYAL
		The betrayal of major Pierre Bunel, chief-of-staff to the general who represents France on NATO's military committee, was a model case in more ways than one. (...) [ 419 words ] [ €5 ]

	NORTHERN IRELAND
	PEACE PROCESS THREATENED
		The emergence of a new Protestant paramilitary organization, the Red Hand Defenders (RHD), has raised fears on both sides of the Irish boarder that hardcore members of loyalist groups who have declared cease fires -–the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Loyalist volunteer force (LVF) – are determined to undermine the peace process in Northern Ireland. (...) [ 171 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	REPORT SLAMS TOP COPS
		Most of the chief constables running the 43 police forces in England and Wales have been criticized by home secretary Jack Straw's chief adviser on police matters, David O'Dowd, the chief inspector of constabulary, for failing to confront law-braking and corruption among their staff. (...) [ 132 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	SOUTH KOREA/FRANCE
	TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER?
		The French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation created a stir at the Seoul Air Show in late October by staging demonstration flights of a two-seater Rafale fighter aircraft – none of its competitors bothered to send planes – and by offering "unlimited" technology transfers to South Korean industry to build Rafale under license. (...) [ 171 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	CANADA/FRANCE
	REVELATIONS ABOUT A QUEBEC MILITANT'S MURDER
		After digging into the story for five years and gaining access to federal government documents, Canadian journalist Michael McLoughlin is publishing a book this month that goes by the title "Last Stop in Paris, The Assassination of Mario Bachand and Death of the FLQ" (Viking/Penguin, ISBN 0-670-88196-1). (...) [ 217 words ] [ €1,5 ]