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SPOTLIGHT

Terrorism

Hezbollah's Place in Iran's Regional Strategy

The financial and logistic support that Iran provides for international terrorist operations conducted by Al Qaeda (IOL 505) and Hezbollah is geared essentially to geopolitical objectives rather than religious aims. As in the 1980s and 1990s when groups orchestrated by Tehran let off bombs in Beirut and Paris, Iran's goal is to be recognized as a regional power by the major Western nations and by its Arab neighbors. (...) [ 670 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Geospatial Intelligence : NGA Beefs Up Research on Data Fusion [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Intelligence
Simplified Line-Up for FBI
	At the behest of president George W. Bush, FBI director Robert Mueller has set up a National Security Branch. Some see it as a throwback to the early 1990s. (...) [ 452 words ] [ €5 ]

Espionage
A Syrian Colonel Defects
	The breakthrough in the investigation into the assassination of former prime minister Rafic Hariri resulted from revelations by a defector from Syrian military intelligence. (...) [ 432 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Stephanie O'Sullivan
	Number two official in the CIA's directorate of science and technology (DS&T) directorate since June, 2003, Stephanie O'Sullivan has taken over from Donald Kerr as boss of that key department. (...) [ 176 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Tehran
G. H. Mohseni Ejehei
	Iran's fourth intelligence minister since the department was set up in 1980, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi is both a legal expert and intelligence professional. (...) [ 214 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Intelligence
Japan to Snub American UAVs?
	A new debate has cropped up concerning the independence of Japan's intelligence effort. A group within the Defense Agency is pushing Tokyo to build its own UAVs, without depending on the U.S. (...) [ 290 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Beijing
Anti-Terror Police for Olympics
	The Chinese government has just announced it had set up a new special anti-terrorist force with advanced technical gear to deal with ever-widening urban unrest in the country. (...) [ 257 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
New Information Systems for Negroponte
	National intelligence director John Negroponte is gradually patching together a team that will number around 700 personnel when fully formed. (...) [ 229 words ] [ €1,5 ]

paris
The Low-Down on Naval Frogmen
	The editor-in-chief of a monthly magazine named Raids that reports on special forces across the world, Eric Micheletti has just published a highly detailed book about naval frogman in Italy, Germany and France. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Terrorism Funding
U.S. Policy Slammed
	A report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) underscores U.S. shortcomings in the fight against the funding of terrorism. (...) [ 280 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

Conflicts - Cosmic War And New Religions

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Terrorism - Risk of "Fitna" in Lebanon

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LOOKING AHEAD

Washington - Gleaning Intelligence by Infrasound

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Fribourg - Religious Influences

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Dulles - Orbimage in Financial Doldrums

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	London
	Argen Powers Back
		The oldest London investigative concern, Argen has hired new investigators and won a major contract from an Icelandic equity fund, Baugur. (...) [ 268 words ] [ €5 ]

	New York
	Arab Fund Invests in Security
		Run by an American-Pakistani businessman and funded by wealthy Gulf investors, Crescent Technology Ventures has just made its first investment in the security field. (...) [ 276 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

London
Qinetiq Pushes Ahead in U.S.
	The British military's former research center that was sold to the U. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Brussels
GPplus Fishes in Commission Pond
	In late August, one of the most active lobbying concerns in Brussels, GPplus took on the Dutch national Hans Kribbe who had served from September, 2002 to January of this year as personal secretary to the former commissioner for the internal market, Frits Bolkestein. (...) [ 275 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Riyadh
New American Lobbyists.
	After giving its business for years to Qorvis Communications, an affiliate of Patton Boggs, Saudi Arabia has just hired two new American lobbying concerns. (...) [ 182 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
No Merger Plan for GlobalOptions and CBR
	In response to our article on the acquisition of the firm Confidential Business Resources by GlobalOptions (IOL 505), a representative from CBR contacted us to state that the groups would continue to operate separately in future. (...) [ 68 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Paris
	Hakluyt Talks To The Bosses
		A market leader in Britain, the Hakluyt investigative concern is seeking to drum up business in France. (...) [ 278 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Paris
Gen. Pierre Ribeyron
	Following the departure of Thierry Pujol in June as its head of operations, the Paris-based security and business intelligence firm Securite Sans Frontieres (SSF) has hired retired general Pierre Ribeyron to fill the key post. (...) [ 277 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Miles Lackey
	A senior director at the National Security Council during Bill Clinton's presidency, Miles Lackey has just teamed up with a former colleague, Mara Rudman, to found a strategic consulting and lobbying concern named Quorum Strategies. (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Washington
	Gemplus Signs Up Patton Boggs
		Keen on breaking into the U.S. market, France's Gemplus has taken on an ex aide of the Department of Homeland Security. (...) [ 201 words ] [ €5 ]

	Brussels
	Thirteen Security Initiatives
		In financing research on security technology, the European Commission wants to establish standards on homeland security and to back innovative technology. (...) [ 385 words ] [ €5 ]