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SPOTLIGHT

SAUDI ARABIA

Prince Abdallah Makes His Strategic Choices

Crown prince Abdallah bin Abdulaziz's official visits to France and the United States this month were aimed at bolstering his position abroad before he formally succeeds king Fahd whose health is continuing to deteriorate. Intelligence Online understands Abdallah succeeded in meetings with his half-brothers of the Sudeiri clan recently to clearly mark out everyone's turf. (...) [ 705 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

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Political Intelligence

Politics
The New Order in Saudi Arabia
	Crown prince Abdallah is poised to succeed his ailing brother, king Fahd, after riding roughshod over some special interests and imposing his authority over 7,000 princes. (...) [ 380 words ] [ €5 ]

Defense
New Special Commands
	The US Strategic Command has set up a number of "functional" commands to supervise US Army operations in highly specialized areas. (...) [ 123 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Gaza
Tareq Abu Rajab
	The new head of the General Intelligence agency who was named by Mahmud Abbas in a shake-up of Palestinian security agencies, major-general Tareq Abu Rajab served throughout his entire career in the intelligence units of Fatah and the PLO. (...) [ 294 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
John Russack
	The director of intelligence at the Energy Department, John Russack, has been nominated by George W. (...) [ 106 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Infowar
Beijing Tests Offensive Capacity
	Japanese intelligence agencies believe Japan was the target of an infowar attack by China. (...) [ 297 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Paris
Moving Home
	Although they don't look like merging their operations, the French police intelligence agency Rensignements Generaux (RG) and counter-intelligence service DST are at least moving closer to one another. (...) [ 180 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
An "Intelligence Revo-lution" Brewing?
	After defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's "revolution in military affairs," some are now predicting the U.S. will kick off a "revolution in intelligence affairs. (...) [ 273 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris-Riyadh
Reality-Novel
	Former editor-in-chief of Intelligence Online, Guillaume Dasquie has invented a new type of fiction, a « reality novel » by publishing a book entitled « Al Qaida Vaincra » (Al Qaida Will Win) at the Prive publishing house in Paris this week. (...) [ 247 words ] [ €5 ]

Computer security
Vital Choice for EADS
	The aeronautics and defense giant EADS will shortly have to choose between two European and an American system of digital certification. (...) [ 284 words ] [ €5 ]

Intelligence
BND's Man in the Vatican?
	Some in European intelligence circles claim that "Josef Ratzinger is a BND man." That is certainly exaggerated. But the German foreign intelligence agency has reason to be pleased with the election of the new pope. (...) [ 398 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

Identification - Interpol's First Dna Customer

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LOOKING AHEAD

Beirut - Saadeddine vs Bahia

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Paris - A Challenge to Europe

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Washington - Security Review for World Bank

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Encryption
	Riding to Security Box's Rescue
		Some of France's largest corporations are biting their fingernails. The publisher MSI, which has sold 100,000 copies of its encryption software, recently filed for bankruptcy. (...) [ 246 words ] [ €5 ]

	Identification
	Gemplus Strikes Good Deal
		Gemplus International, a company based in Luxembourg, has broken into the world market for biometric identification with its acquisition of Setec in Finland. (...) [ 188 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

Washington
CIA Old Boys Club
	Judge Eugene Sullivan, former general counsel of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), has just joined the board of Abraxas, a private intelligence firm founded last year and headed by old CIA hands. (...) [ 208 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
APCO in Mid-East Move
	The U.S. lobbying firm APCO Worldwide has just signed a partnership pact with an Arab audit and public relations company, TAGO, founded and headed by the Palestinian Talal Abu Ghazaleh. (...) [ 214 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
Clarification
	The sale of 49% of equity in the French lobbying and business intelligence concern ESL & Network by its founder, Patrice-Allain Dupre, will be finalized on June. (...) [ 141 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Spicer Under Attack
	The U.S. inspector-general for the reconstruction of Iraq has lashed out what it calls the poor performance of Aegis Defense Services, a firm run by Tim Spicer. (...) [ 131 words ] [ €5 ]

	Lobbying
	How Beijing Recruits at Langley
		State-controlled Chinese companies are being helped to gain footholds in the U.S. by former American security officials who have gone over to the private sector. (...) [ 346 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
James Comey
	Deputy attorney-general in charge of the fight against white collar crime, James Comey announced last week he would resign in the autumn to seek a job in the private sector. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €1,5 ]

New York
Inga-Britt Ahlenius
	Former auditor-general of Sweden, Inga-Britt Ahlenius was appointed head of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, an agency that combats fraud in the United Nations system, by UN secretary-general Kofi Annan last week. (...) [ 209 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Text mining
	French Tech Firms Eye U.S. Market
		Text mining systems have become essential tools in analyzing intelligence. Three firms – one American, another French and a third Israeli—are leaders in the field. (...) [ 279 words ] [ €5 ]

	Space
	Spot Sells Taiwan Imagery
		France's Spot group is to become world-wide distributor of images from the Formosat-2 satellite. It will begin marketing them to armed forces in the region. (...) [ 288 words ] [ €5 ]