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SPOTLIGHT

TERRORISM

CIA Tracks Al Qaeda Funding Sources

Intelligence Online has learned from diplomatic sources that the CIA launched a major intelligence operation focussing on the accounts of all Saudi Arabian embassies in the world following the attacks in Riyadh on Nov. 8 and before the double bombing in Turkey. (...) [ 687 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

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Political Intelligence

TERRORISM
Al Qaeda Still Calls Shots From Iran
	American, British, Turkish and Israeli intelligence agencies all noted an increase in communications from Al Qaeda leaders hidden away in Iran before the string of attacks in Riyadh and Istanbul in November. (...) [ 361 words ] [ €5 ]

NEGOCIATIONS
Encryption on Internet for Nato
	NATO's C3 agency has finally picked the CRYPTEL IP system manufactured by Thales Communications Norway to see to the encryption of data, voice and video communications on the Internet. (...) [ 73 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

WASHINGTON
Gary Bald
	A long-standing veteran of the FBI who began his career in 1977, Gary Bald, has been named deputy assistant director of the agency's counter-terrorism division by FBI director Robert Mueller. (...) [ 201 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BAGHDAD
Ezzat Ibrahim Al Durri
	The Americans have posted a $10 million reward for Ezzat Ibrahim al Durri whom they are convinced is the brains behind guerrilla operations being mounted against U. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €1,5 ]

TERRORISM
State of Alert for Japanese
	Japan's anti-terrorism community has been on maximum alert twice in the space of a few days. Al Qaeda threatened to strike at Japanese interests if the prime minister agreed to send self-defense forces to Iraq; (...) [ 416 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

WASHINGTON
Identity Switch for NIMA
	The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) joined the highly select club of intelligence services with just three initials - CIA, DIA and NSA - on Nov. (...) [ 195 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
DRM Puts Out Call for Bids
	A low-profile affiliate of France's Thales Communications, the Kalima concern has responded to an invitation to tender by the French military intelligence agency Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) for new semantic analysis and text-mining systems. (...) [ 347 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
Between Organized Crime and Terrorism
	The ?2003 National Money Laundering Report? that treasury secretary John Snow and attorney general John Ashcroft have just published underlines the fact that organized crime and terrorist movements often use the same methods and the same money laundering circuits. (...) [ 144 words ] [ €5 ]

INTELLIGENCE
Data Mining Still a Priority
	Even though Congress has vetoed the Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) program, work is still proceeding and the question now is how to find an acceptable legal framework for research by next March. (...) [ 576 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
A Long, Hard Look at Intelligence Agencies
	A handful of officials at France's Audits Court have just completed an audit of the French intelligence agencies that took nearly a year to conduct. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €1,5 ]

GENEVA
Secret Message Between Washington and Tehran
	According to our sources, Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations secretary-general's personal representative in Afghanistan, handed a message from the American government to Iran's delegation at the U. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BRUSSELS
Where Europe's Research Money Goes
	European companies are investing a lot in research but rather in the U. (...) [ 136 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

OTTAWA, DEC. 4 AND 5
Intelligence for Peace-Keeping
	Martin Rudner, director of the Canadian Center of Intelligence and Security Studies at Carleton University, is organizing a ? (...) [ 89 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS, JAN. 27
A Country Risk Rundown
	The French export guarantee agency COFACE, a world leader in its branch, is organizing an 8th annual seminar on country-risk in Paris on Jan. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ISTANBUL, FEB; 10-12
NATO Anti-Terrorist Forum
	Confirming the central role it wants to play in the fight against terrorism, NATO is organizing a conference entitled ? (...) [ 127 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	DUBLIN
	A Crime-Busting Partnership
		For the first time, European companies, police forces and academics are organizing themselves to establish a public-private partnership against organized crime. (...) [ 292 words ] [ €5 ]

	STOCKHOLM
	Free and Encrypted Conversation
		4After inventing the Kazaa file exchange software program - which has since been sold to Sharman Networks - two Swedish experts, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have designed a program to telephone via the Internet. (...) [ 161 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

NEW YORK
First Commercial Application of Quantum Encryption
	Billed as unbreakable, quantum cryptography has been confined to research laboratories up to now. A number of limitations, particularly concerning the distance over which it could be used, made the technology difficult to put to practical use. (...) [ 219 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS/KARLSRUHE
4A Franco-German JV and a Foundation
	Only a few months after converting itself from a public establishment to a limited liability company funded by the government, France's Agence pour la Diffusion de l'Information Technologique (ADIT) plans to undertake a number of major projects early next year. (...) [ 330 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
Right of Reply
	In response to our article entitled ?Founder of Circe Dismissed by I2F? (IOL 461), Didier Dubois, who is fighting against his dismissal and asked that we publish a reply to the article. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €5 ]

	WEAK SIGNALS
	More on Offer
		French business intelligence firms are beginning to beef up their operations and offer wider services, along U. (...) [ 57 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

NEW YORK
Bruce Lawlor
	A lawyer with a brilliant career in the military behind him, gen. (...) [ 192 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RIYADH
Khalid bin Mahfouz
	In response to our article on Sept. 5 (IOL 459) on the decision of the Saudi American Bank (SAMBA) to close his account, Khalid bin Mahfouz has contacted us through his Washington-based lawyer, Jeffrey Goodman, a partner in Fulbright & Jaworski. (...) [ 219 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	MOSCOW
	Putin's Man in Switzerland
		The battle to win control of Yukos and a good part of Russia's oil industry is raging behind the scenes between players who are intent on remaining in the shadows. (...) [ 456 words ] [ €5 ]

Influence Strategy

	BRUSSELS-WASHINGTON
	Anti-Terrorism or Business Intelligence?
		What corporation has never dreamed of being able to permanently dip into the data base of its competitors? In the business world no detail is devoid of interest: list of suppliers, wage bill, expense accounts of executives. (...) [ 410 words ] [ €5 ]

Risk Assesment

	UNITED STATES
	Money Laundering
		The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the American intelligence agency that fights against money-laundering, has just established a new regulation that includes brokers in commodities and futures operators in its definition of ? (...) [ 188 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BALKANS
	Oranized Crime
		Justice and interior affairs ministers from the European Union will meet their counterparts from the Balkans (Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro) in Brussels on Feb. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €1,5 ]