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SPOTLIGHT

Business Intelligence

Palestinian Tycoons Squabble on West Bank

Two of the original financiers of the Palestinian movement, businessmen Munib Masri, head of the Palestinian Development and Investment Co (Padinco) and Said Khoury, Consolidated Contractors International Co (CCC) are engaged in an angry standoff that could in the long run have far-reaching economic consequences but also ramifications on the West Bank’s political life. (...) [ 728 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Security : How Israel’s Shin Bet Exports its Know-How [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Paris
Elysee Wants Final Call on Intelligence
	An intelligence coordinator is going to be appointed at the Elysee Palace, residence of the French president, in a shake-up of France’s defence and security system. (...) [ 343 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Making Sure the Lights Don’t Go Out
	A number of U.S. intelligence agencies are seeking to be equipped with their own power plants to make sure they don’t fall victim to electricity cuts. (...) [ 134 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Lisa Porter
	Although its future and specially its budget remain highly uncertain (IOL 561/548), the director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell has appointed a woman, Lisa Porter, to head the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). (...) [ 157 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Manama
S. bin Hamad al Khalifa
	The crown prince of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad al Khalifa, who has commanded the Bahrain Defense Forces since 1997, has been promoted by his father, king Hamad bin Issa al Khalifa, as the number two man of the Bahrain Armed Forces. (...) [ 209 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Baghdad
U.S. Pulls Plug on Insurgent TV
	It took a full year for the U.S. Command to exert enough pressure to put Al Zawraa TV, which broadcasted video clips of Sunni insurgents, out of business. (...) [ 427 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Brussels
How Many French Soldiers at NATO?
	France's general staff has added up the figures in advance of any decision by Paris on whether to rejoin NATO’s integrated military command in 2009, the Atlantic Alliance’s 60th anniversary. (...) [ 259 words ] [ €5 ]

Tokyo
Honey Trap in Beijing
	General Isao Mukunoki, director of the Japanese military agency Defense Intelligence Headquarters, sent a security team to Beijing last week to de-brief officials in the Japanese embassy’s intelligence department. (...) [ 197 words ] [ €5 ]

Beijing
The Spectre of Chinagate
	Jailed in 2000 with general Ji Shengde for trying to infiltrate Bill Clinton’s campaign for the presidency in 1996, the Chinese military intelligence colonel Liu Chaoying was recently released in Beijing, according to Intelligence Online sources. (...) [ 240 words ] [ €5 ]

Brussels
Pakistan Nuclear Security Concern
	Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, publicly voiced concern over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal on Jan. 8. The Europeans seem less prone to worrying. (...) [ 262 words ] [ €5 ]

Damascus
Abdallah Bangs Again on Syria’s Door
	On the heels of a first attempt to mediate between Syria and its adversaries last November, Jordanian king Abdallah II made his way back to Damascus last week. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

FRANCE - New Boss at Sofresa Sooner than Expected?

	[ 109 words ] [ €1,5 ]

LOOKING AHEAD

Kuwait City - GCC’s Reading of Iranian Missile Threat

	[ 136 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington - Injecting Fresh Blood into FBI

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Riyadh - Secret Mission for Bandar

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	London
	Oatley Back in Harness
		After keeping a low profile in recent years, Michael Oatley, a long-standing MI 6 aide who played a leading role in Britain’s private investigative sector, has reappeared in the tiff between Michael Cherney and Oleg Deripaska. (...) [ 188 words ] [ €5 ]

	New Delhi
	Armaris in the Hot Seat Again
		With Armaris struggling to execute its contract to supply six submarines to the Indian Navy, an inquiry has resumed into possible irregularities in the original deal. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

London
Risk Advisory To Be Bought Out?
	According to our sources, the British intelligence and security firm Risk Advisory Group has made preliminary contact with FTI on eventually selling its business to the American consultancy. (...) [ 173 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
The Cheney Connection
	Mary Cheney, one of two daughters of Dick Cheney, has just been hired by the lobbying firm DC Navigators which employs a number of former staff of the American vice president. (...) [ 146 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Amec’s Lobbyists
	Prime minister Gordon Brown’s statement last week that Britain was moving closer to building new nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom can only serve to heighten competition between the few groups operating on that market. (...) [ 106 words ] [ €5 ]

	New York
	Kroll’s 12 Labors for Barrick
		A long-standing customer of Kroll, Barrick Gold assigned the investigative concern to conduct varied assignments on all of the continents where it owns mines. (...) [ 400 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

London
David Richmond
	The former British ambassador to Iraq, David Richmond, has just joined the lobbying and public relations concern Bell Pottinger sans Frontiere as a consultant. (...) [ 176 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Tom Locke
	Long a shareholder in the private intelligence firm Diligence, the BRG Holding concern (previously Barbour, Griffith & Rogers) has acquired an inquiry and intelligence business of its own by hiring a former senior FBI official, Tom Locke. (...) [ 189 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	London
	Blackmore Starts New Firm
		A long-serving director of the London office of Vance, a group bought out by Garda, former banker Charles Blackmore has opened a firm focussing on the emerging countries. (...) [ 259 words ] [ €5 ]

	Washington
	Good Practices Code for Offsets?
		As legislation prevents it from backing offsets proposed by U.S. companies, the Bush administration wants to turn that handicap into an advantage by pushing through an international convention on the issue. (...) [ 250 words ] [ €5 ]