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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED KINGDOM/LIBYA

Libya Back In Good Odor

The discovery of the first arrest warrant ever issued by Interpol against Osama Bin Laden on April 15, 1998 confirms the existence of strong ties between the terrorist chief and Libyan opponents of Muammar Kadhafi (document marked 1998/20232 available on our website). (...) [ 679 words ] [ €8 ]

Political Intelligence

FINANCIAL CRIME
Tracking the Armaments Commissions
	For the first time investigations are getting to the heart of the system that provided kickbacks on contracts won by France's Thomson, Matra, Dassault and SNECMA from Taiwan. (...) [ 285 words ] [ €5 ]

FINANCIAL CRIME
Belated Accusations Against Al Taqwa
	In accusing the financial group al Taqwa of funding terrorism, George W. Bush wanted to provide an example of headway in tracking down radical Islam's money. (...) [ 595 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

UNITED STATES

James Dobbins

On Nov. 5 president George W. Bush named diplomat James Dobbins as American ambassador to the Northern Alliance. The move formed part of the State Department's strategy to pave the way for the government that will take over from the Taliban in Kabul. (...)
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FRANCE
Frederic Veaux
	As Intelligence Online went to press, Frederic Veaux, current head of France's antidrug squad (Office Central de Repression du Traffic Illicite de Stupefiant (OCTRIS), was being tipped to take over as chief of the Division Nationale Anti-Terroriste (DNAT). (...) [ 212 words ] [ €5 ]

DIPLOMACY
Power Struggle in Occupied West Bank
	Citing the need to reorganize his security services, Yasser Arafat has changed his choice of likely successor and regained the initiative. (...) [ 264 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

UNITED STATES
Ashcroft's Gift to the CIA
	What the CIA had long dreamed of has been achieved by the Justice Department. The USA Patriot Act that has just been passed by Congress will empower the intelligence agencies, and principally the CIA, to receive information gleaned by law enforcement officials from the justice and treasury departments in the course of their administrative or criminal investigations. (...) [ 186 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
Intelligence Panel Worries about Airport Switch
	According to sources in the French prime minister's office, several officials on France's inter-department intelligence committee (Comite Interministeriel du Renseignement (CIR) are concerned that staff changes at the Paris Airport Authority which manages Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports could have a negative impact on security. (...) [ 307 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MI5 Bites Nails About its Libyan Friends
	The Jamaa al Islamiya al Muqatila movement known under its name of Libyan Fighting Group got its start in London. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €5 ]

TERRORISM
FBI's Diplomatic Sweep in Middle East
	FBI men are traveling from capital to capital in the Middle East in the name of legal cooperation against Al Qaeda. (...) [ 547 words ] [ €5 ]

SWITZERLAND
What Legal Codes Cover Nuclear Weapons?
	The International Red Cross Committee (CICR) sent a memorandum to all the belligerents in the Afghanistan crisis on Sept. (...) [ 282 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES

Question Mark over Kandahar Rose's Future

Kandahar Rose is the nickname that her critics and some of her colleagues at Voice of America conferred on Spozhmai Maiwandi, a 49-year-old Afghan journalist who has been in charge of Pushto language services for the U. (...)
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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

LONDON

Former Shell Boss Takes Up Climate Brief

The next world conference on global warming in September, 2002 in Johannesburg is being taken very seriously by big business. (...)
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	BRUSSELS
	Closing Ranks to Protect Data
		The lobbying campaign against EU regulations to protect data of a private nature has taken on the proportion of an industrial crusade. (...) [ 276 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

UNITED STATES

The Company that Helped Lockheed to Win

The firm's name is Barbour Griffith & Rogers and it has emerged as the lobbying concern that played the most decisive role in helping Lockheed-Martin win the huge contract for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) on Oct. (...)
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EUROPE
The Genetics Lobbys New-Found Friends
	New signs of an objective alliance between patients' associations and the pharmaceutical industry have appeared in the highly controversial area of genetic testing, as moves by the European Alliance of Patient and Parent Organizations for Genetic Services and Innovation in Medecine ( EAGS) illustrate. (...) [ 292 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Pinkerton Beefs up Investigative Branch
	The U.S. security firm Pinkerton is building up its investigative department on the East Coast, the company's traditional market for this type of service. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €5 ]

	ROME
	Belusconi Government Split over A400M
		Will Italy Join Europe's A400M military transport aircraft program? A major power struggle within Silvio Berlusconi's government has broken out over the issue. (...) [ 362 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

UNITED KINGDOM

Anji Hunter

In taking over as head of communications at British Petroleum, Anji Hunter, a friend of Tony Blair's for 30 years, will be able to deploy her formidable powers of persuasion for the oil group. (...)
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FRANCE
Pierre Pasineti
	A senior officer who held operational posts at the French foreign intelligence agency DGSE for over 15 years, Pierre Pasineti, has just been recruited by the military electronics group Thales, formerly Thomson- CSF. (...) [ 181 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

	SECURITY
	From the Horse's Mouth.
		A conference bringing together a raft of top officials and experts concerned by the security implications of the Sept. (...) [ 113 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UAV'S
	The Decade Ahead for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
		The Shephard group is organizing a first-ever UAV USA conference in Arlington, Virginia on Dec. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,5 ]