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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/FRANCE

Huge Arms Traffic Uncovered

After an on-and-off inquiry lasting four years, an investigating magistrate in the central French city of Bourges has pieced together one of the biggest networks of arms traffickers ever uncovered in Europe. It involves Belgian, French and Croatian businessmen and concerns deliveries of smuggled weapons in the period 1993-95 between Iran, Africa, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. (...) [ 655 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES/TAIWAN
Keeping Bomb Away from Taiwan
	During a symposium on U.S. government secrecy in Washington on Dec. 5, professor Nancy Bernkopf Tucker of Georgetown University created a stir by claiming that the United States had intervened twice in the past to stop Taiwan from developing a nuclear bomb. (...) [ 325 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. Pressure on Bin Laden’s Brother
	With the inquiry into the bomb attack on the USS Cole pointing increasingly to the likelihood of Ussama Bin Laden’s involvement (IN 394) the State Department in Washington has stepped up its endeavors to neutralize supporters of its Public Enemy No. (...) [ 455 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

DENMARK
Morgens Lundh
	Aged 56, Morgens Lundh will take over the organized crime department at Europol, the European Union’s police organization, on Jan. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
Daniel Nardello
	An American legal expert, Daniel Nardello, who heads all the inquiries of the DSFX firm in Europe from his office in London, seems intent on building up a continent-wide network. (...) [ 180 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Mohammed Dahlan
	In recent weeks, col. Mohammed Dahlan, head of the preventive security agency in Gaza, has emerged among influential Palestinian circles as a likely successor to Yasser Arafat. (...) [ 373 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM

DGIA Up and Running

Britain’s most recent intelligence agency, the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency (DGIA), has become fully operational after an eight-month running-in period from the administrative and technical standpoint. (...)
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FRANCE
What Triggered Wood’s Downfall?
	Associates of a French officer, Marc Wood, implicated in an espionage affair at the French embassy in Washington in July and August believe his responsibility in the case to be less serious than initially indicated. (...) [ 572 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
Belgrade Turns French National Over to Paris
	According to Intelligence Newsletter’s diplomatic sources, Dominique Jugo, a mercenary who holds double French-Yugoslav nationality, has returned in recent weeks to Paris. (...) [ 133 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
International Workshop With Military Focus
	A lot of leading research workers are to attend the International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography scheduled to be held in Paris between Jan. (...) [ 136 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Year’s First "Update" Conference
	The CyberCrime 2001 conference will be held between Jan. 21-23 at Foxwoods in Connecticut with backing from the High-Tech Crime Network (HTCN), the 24/7 network managed by the U. (...) [ 138 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES
	Keeping Constant Eye on Hackers
		The Pentagon recorded a 5% rise in attacks against its computers in 2000, according to Robert West, deputy commander of the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense (JFT-CND). (...) [ 356 words ] [ €5 ]

	PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
	Hamas and Fatah Chiefs Hit
		The Palestinian Authority’s eight security and intelligence agencies have been thrown into turmoil by Israel’s elimination of several leaders of armed Palestinian movements. (...) [ 469 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
Internet 2, the Pentagon’s Lesson
	Next year will see the first advertising campaigns for the third cellular telephone generation, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). Be that as it may, the new standard will exercise such a predominance in communications that web operators will feel the need to step up the quest for a new standard, namely that of a second generation Internet, or Internet 2. (...) [ 558 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Advances in Quantum Encryption
	An announcement from the Arhus University in Denmark on Dec. 14 which attracted little notice may well represent a breakthrough in producing a first-ever system using quantum encryption. (...) [ 256 words ] [ €5 ]


AES Migrates to U.S
	The Belgian firm Proton World moved to the United States this month just two months after the U. (...) [ 179 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Space Imaging: Export Go-Ahead
	The U.S. firm Space Imaging has won authorization to export pictures from its private intelligence satellite Ikonos. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
Interpol’s DNA Research
	The international police organization Interpol is pushing for the creation of a DNA data base that works with the same technology in all of Interpol’s member states. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Lobbying for a Convention
		A visit to Washington by the chairman of the Council of Europe’s committee on crime in cyber-space between Dec. 6-8 showed to what extent the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic appear committed to battling cybercrime. (...) [ 325 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Preparing for NBC Fight
		Over the past year a number of officials have stepped forward with alarmist claims on the danger of the U.S. (...) [ 552 words ] [ €5 ]

	EUROPE
	Upsurge in Central Europe
		During a visit to the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest that is managed by the FBI and the U. (...) [ 90 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE
	France Tightens Turkish Bonds
		In the wake of the Nice summit’s endorsement of a European military force, Turkey launched a sharp attack at NATO headquarters in Brussels concerning relations between the Atlantic Alliance and the European Union. (...) [ 140 words ] [ €1,5 ]