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Issue no. 621 dated 08 july, 2010

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AFGHANISTAN / UNITED STATES

Pentagon fears financing Taliban

The White House and Congress are putting pressure on the U.S. Army to pay closer attention to whom it works with in Afghanistan, amid concerns that the Pentagon’s sub-contractors in the country may be enriching local potentates and indirectly helping to finance the Taliban These considerations conflict with the(...) [ 595 words ] [€8]

UNITED KINGDOM
Nathaniel Rothschild

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KYRGYZSTAN
Azimbek Beknazarov

(...) [ 86 words ] [€1,5]
UNITED STATES / IRAN
John Limbert

(...) [ 88 words ] [€1,5]

Private networks for the security-conscious

Militant groups can now build their own mobile phone networks, thanks to inventive Californian hackers.(...) [ 293 words ] [€5]

Nice little earner

Watan Risk Management, which provides security for U.S. Army convoys in Afghanistan, is being criticised by U.S. Congress investigators and road haulage firms for working with a warlord.(...) [ 376 words ] [€5]

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GREY AREAS

YEMEN

Saleh puts tribes in charge of security

Struggling to deal with Houthi rebels in the north of the country, Al Qaeda in the east and separatists in the South, Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh has engaged local tribes to help him maintain security.(...) [ 353 words ] [€5]

FRANCE

Rival intervention forces

A confidential report aims to calm the rivalry between the Police and the Gendarmerie’s respective intervention forces.(...) [ 191 words ] [€5]

RUSSIA / IRAN

Surface-to-air diplomacy

Moscow takes a political decision to block the sale of S300 to Iran.(...) [ 347 words ] [€5]

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RUSSIA / UNITED STATES - Anna Chapman and 10 other “illegal” Russians agents arrested by the FBI on June 27 have(...) [ 96 words ] [€1,5]

EUROPEAN UNION - Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, is taking(...) [ 75 words ] [€1,5]

RUSSIA / UNITED STATES - Anna Chapman and 10 other “illegal” Russians agents arrested by the FBI on June 27 have(...) [ 96 words ] [€1,5]

CANADA - Richard B. Fadden, the head of the Canadian Security & Intelligence Service (CSIS) was(...) [ 106 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - IED detection privatised The U.S. firm Engility Corporation will handle the detection of improvised explosive(...) [ 86 words ] [€1,5]

ISRAEL / UNITED STATES - An unusual traffic Specialists in illegal arms trafficking are curious about the activities of Chanoch Miller,(...) [ 87 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - Nuclear power pitch for NATO bases The U.S. group Hyperion Power Generation has hired former British Defence Ministry advisor(...) [ 86 words ] [€1,5]

ISRAEL

Pretenders vie for top spy slot

Meir Dagan is due to step down at the end of this year after 8 years as head of Mossad. Three candidates are in the running to take over.(...) [ 224 words ] [€5]

RUSSIA / IRAN

Surface-to-air diplomacy

Moscow takes a political decision to block the sale of S300 to Iran.(...) [ 347 words ] [€5]

SYRIA

Damascus’ Iranian missiles

Damascus has surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missiles that would enable it to react in case of an Israeli attack on its soil.(...) [ 207 words ] [€5]

KYRGYZSTAN

Drug mafia behind violence

The drug mafias based in Osh and Jalalabad were behind recent anti-Uzbek pogroms in both towns, according to information obtained by Intelligence Online.(...) [ 151 words ] [€5]

TURKEY - Hakan Fidan, the new head of the Milli |Istihbarak Teskilati attended his first meeting(...) [ 116 words ] [€1,5]

ISRAEL - Yuval Diskin, the head of Israel's Shabak General Security Service is due to step down(...) [ 77 words ] [€1,5]

ISRAEL / UNITED STATES - An unusual traffic Specialists in illegal arms trafficking are curious about the activities of Chanoch Miller,(...) [ 87 words ] [€1,5]

SAUDI ARABIA - Military shake-up continues After the Saudi Air Force, it is the Navy's turn to undergo a change at the helm with(...) [ 100 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Israeli commando bungled kidnapping Abu Dhabi's State Security, which is leading the investigation into the assassination(...) [ 112 words ] [€1,5]

CHINA

Yu Shanjun toughens military security

The Central Military Commission, headed by Hu Jintao, last month issued a directive strengthening the “confidentiality rules” and “security systems” that apply(...) [ 192 words ] [€5]

JAPAN - Shinichi Uematsu, the new head of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Intelligence & Research(...) [ 87 words ] [€1,5]

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SAUDI ARABIA / UNITED STATES

Abdullah takes charge of arms deals

The royal cabinet has initiated arms negotiations with the United States, and is trying to relegate Saudi Arabia's Defence Ministry to a purely technical role.(...) [ 371 words ] [€5]

SAUDI ARABIA / FRANCE

Saudis check out French satellite

Intelligence Online has learned that a Saudi delegation last month visited the French military intelligence imagery centre at the French Air Force base in Creil, north of Paris.(...) [ 219 words ] [€5]

EUROPEAN UNION - CEIS and the Foundation for Strategic Research are taking part, along with Rand Corp(...) [ 88 words ] [€1,5]

FRANCE - Geos has modified its structure, as Intelligence Online anticipated in its last issue (IOL 620).(...) [ 105 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED KINGDOM - Christopher Beese, former administrative director of ArmorGroup, is now on the advisory(...) [ 85 words ] [€1,5]

MONACO / UNITED STATES - New lawyers take on Erlinger In the year-long legal wrangle with Prince Albert of Monaco’s former intelligence advisor(...) [ 138 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES

A journalist for Langley

Jim Roth’s Langley Group, the hedge funds’ preferred investigation firm, has promoted a former journalist Matthew Mogul to be its new managing director.(...) [ 221 words ] [FREE]

UNITED STATES

Caerus, expert in rough terrains.

Former counter insurgency advisor to U.S. General David Petraeus in Iraq, Autralian David Kilcullen helps his clients to operate in war zones.(...) [ 202 words ] [€5]

UNITED STATES

Bush’s ex-lawyer defends Mina Corp

Mina Corp supplier of jet fuel to the U.S. Army’s Manas base in central Asia, has hired William A Burck to be the company lobbyist in Washington DC.(...) [ 181 words ] [€5]

UNITED STATES

IBM and SAS slug it out

Facing stiff competition from the computing giants IBM and Germany’s SAP (IOL 559), the U.S SAS Institute, which specialises in advanced software to analyze huge(...) [ 215 words ] [€5]

UNITED STATES - Dyncorp, the Pentagon and the U.S. Department of State subcontractor, has been acquired(...) [ 65 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - XeServices, the security firm formerly known as Blackwater, continues to rebound from(...) [ 95 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - McLarty Associates, the strategic consulting firm of Bill Clinton’s former director of(...) [ 95 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - FBI fights kick-backs During the Global Anti-Corruption Summit that took place in Washington on June 23-24,(...) [ 114 words ] [€1,5]

MONACO / UNITED STATES - New lawyers take on Erlinger In the year-long legal wrangle with Prince Albert of Monaco’s former intelligence advisor(...) [ 138 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - Invista defends patents A subsidiary of Koch Industries, the chemical group Invista is engaged in legal guerrilla(...) [ 125 words ] [€1,5]

AFGHANISTAN - Mines attract consultants Attracted by the country's mining potential, several consultants have positioned themselves(...) [ 73 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Getting tough on Iran

The bankruptcy of Dubai has changed the balance of power in the United Arab Emirates, paving the way for Abu Dhabi to impose sanctions against Iran.(...) [ 323 words ] [€5]

SAUDI ARABIA / FRANCE

Saudis check out French satellite

AFGHANISTAN - Mines attract consultants Attracted by the country's mining potential, several consultants have positioned themselves(...) [ 73 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Consultants’ RAK ruck A new lobbying firm has joined a clutch of others already involved in the power-struggle(...) [ 120 words ] [€1,5]

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