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SPOTLIGHT

Paris

Wheeler Dealers Fight it Out in Ruling Circles

With presidential elections scheduled for next April in France, a bitter struggle between businessmen within the current center-right majority has been exacerbated by rivalry between incumbent president Jacques Chirac and his interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy. Two men in particular, who act essentially on big defense contracts, find themselves both actors and victims of the internecine warfare. (...) [ 705 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

United States : U.S. Visit a Serious Obstacle to Tourism and Trade? [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Cairo
Mubarak in Tug-of-War with Iran
	Cairo and Tehran have been fighting it out for weeks to have the final say in releasing an Israeli corporal kidnapped by Hamas on June 25. (...) [ 382 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
New Senate Hearings on Iraq
	The U.S. military presence in Iraq will be examined once again by the Senate immediately after the mid-term elections. (...) [ 96 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Ramallah
Ismail Jaber
	Palestinian authority president Mahmud Abbas responded to a severe crisis on Oct. (...) [ 224 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Ron Sanders
	Named Chief Human Capital Officer under John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Ron Sanders probably counts among those who will bear most responsibility for the future of American intelligence. (...) [ 180 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Riyadh
Door Open for 3rd Generation
	Published on Oct. 20 by king Abdallah a royal decree changing the rules of succession in Saudi Arabia bore the hallmark of prince Talal. (...) [ 375 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Prague
Czech Intelligence: Change at the Top
	An overhaul of Czech intelligence is likely to continue now that the party of former prime minister Mirek Topoplanek, who launched the revamp but had to resign his post after just 38 days in office, has won a majority in the Senate. (...) [ 323 words ] [ €5 ]

Guam
A Regional Global Hawk Network?
	Ever since he was appointed commander of the Pacific Air Force (PACAF) in 2004, general Paul Hester has been unrelenting in his efforts to find customers in the region for Global Hawk, a high altitude, long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). (...) [ 231 words ] [ €5 ]

Beijing
How to Achieve Social Peace
	The Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies headed by professor Li Wei at the Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) is one of the most respected think-tanks in the Chinese security community. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €5 ]

Pyongyang
Kim Jong-il’s Crowd Likes Paris
	In recent years Paris has become a favourite haunt of the North Korean nomenclatura. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
Open Warfare at Safran
	The sudden dismissal of the boss of Sagem Defense Securite, Jacques Paccard, on Oct. 30 left the affiliate of Safran in a state of near-insurrection. (...) [ 282 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

FRANCE - Paris - Fast Change at Defense Ministry

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LOOKING AHEAD

Ottawa - Assessing Foreign Agreements

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Paris - India Biggest Customer for French Weapons

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Molesworth (UK) - How to Share NATO Intelligence?

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Kabul
	Three-Way Fight for Contract
		In ever-tighter economic conditions private security firms are fighting for a contract to protect the British embassy in Kabul. (...) [ 261 words ] [ €5 ]

	London/New York
	Schwartz And Nardello Part Ways
		Working together for 12 years, Bart Schwartz and Daniel Nardello have parted ways in order to set up their own businesses. (...) [ 212 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

Paris
A Push for Suburban Trains
	Against all expectations, Canada’s Bombardier last week won a EUR2.7 billion contract to build 172 trains for the Paris suburbs in a competition with France’s Alstom. (...) [ 210 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Thatcher’s Former Bodyguard Joins Inkerman
	The personal bodyguard of Margaret Thatcher during her second term in 10 Downing Street but also after she left the government in 1990,. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €5 ]

Luxembourg
The EIB’s Investigators
	The inspector-general of the European Investment Bank picked three companies in mid-October to provide investigative, due diligence and anti-fraud services. (...) [ 126 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Argen Boss Walks Out
	The head of the small British investigative concern Argen since the death of its founder, former MI5 operative John Fairer-Smith in 1999, Jonathan Edwards has left the company. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €5 ]

	Kiev
	How Vinci Lost Chernobyl Deal
		A campaign orchestrated by several oligarchs prevented the French firms Vinci and Bouygues from winning a contract to seal the damaged reactor at Chernobyl. (...) [ 386 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
James Clapper
	Less than six months after stepping down as chief of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which he headed from 2001 to June of this year, retired US Air Force general James Clapper has been appointed managing director of the defense consultancy DFI Government Services. (...) [ 166 words ] [ €1,5 ]

London
Nick Prior
	After spending two years as boss of the British defense ministry’s new Private Finance Unit, Nick Prior will take up work next June as chief of the department at the Deloitte accountancy and audits firm that deals with public-private partnerships (PPP) in the United Kingdom. (...) [ 216 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	London
	Garda Seeks Investigative Partner
		After taking over the U.S. firm Vance International, Canada’s Garda World Security group is attempting to team up with a British business intelligence outfit. In vain up to now. (...) [ 277 words ] [ €5 ]

	London
	Rusal Accused of Spying
		A suit has been filed against the Russian group headed by Oleg Deripaska for allegedly planting spyware on the computer network of a former partner. (...) [ 339 words ] [ €5 ]