Despite the recommendations of the independent panel into the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks the American intelligence community won't find itself knuckling under an "intelligence czar" with sweeping powers. President George W. Bush finally decided on Aug.
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Hezbollah's political leadership remained unchanged at the movement's latest congress but the security apparatus underwent a major revamp.
Japan set up a new anti-terrorist rapid action unit in mid-August. A branch of the anti-terrorist division of the National [...]
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After building up the case for two years, the federal examining magistrate Paul Perraudin has passed the dossier of former [...]
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The discreet but powerful lobby of State Councilors in France has managed to keep one of its own as boss [...]
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By mid-October FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev is going to proceed with a major shakeup of Russia domestic intelligence agency along the lines of a decree issued in July by Vladimir Putin.
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Iran has reportedly deployed new missile batteries in Lebanon that can hit Tel Aviv.
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Official documents have surfaced to prove the U.S. Census Bureau has handed over precise statistics on persons of Arab origin to the customs service.
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Intelligence agencies in several countries are highly interested in the arrest of Peter Wilhelm, boss of a high-tech Hungarian firm, in Paris.
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For what it's worth, the U.S. State Department is keeping the negotiating channels open with Damascus in the hope of putting a halt to Syria's backing for guerillas in Iraq.
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Gennadi Timchenko, a Russian oil trader based in Geneva who [...]
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A new twist is shaping up in France's long-running battle [...]
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With Washington prepared to spend $10 billion in next year's [...]
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The U.S. defense department currently fields three communications networks: SIPRNet [...]
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Long tolerated by the U.S. administration, the comings and goings of senior military officers and Pentagon aides between the public and private sector are in the gun sights of several lawmakers.
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Eliminated one by one from the top echelons of Total after their company was taken over by the French oil giant, former executives of Elf are starting new careers with companies which operate in Russia.
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If successful, a bid by American equity funds to acquire Amadeus, the leading European travel reservation system, could infringe on Europe's privacy rights.
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The U.S. firm Kroll has suffered a number of well-publicized setbacks in recent months just as the group negotiated - and eventually finalized --its takeover by Marsh (IOL 477).
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Retired French air force general Baudouin Albanel has just replaced [...]
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Highly involved in the first Gulf War, when it acted [...]
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Top officials in the Kremlin are continuing to grab political [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security's US VISIT department is continuing [...]
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Following the collapse of their company's merger with Kroll and the sale of their armored car firm to Armor Holdings, [...]
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France's Geos group is on the verge of hiring a senior police official, Laurent Comalbert, former member of the "crisis [...]
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Although the award of a contract in Iraq to Aegis Defense Service is still making waves in Washington (IOL), the [...]
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Iraq's new intelligence chief, Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, who was appointed [...]
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Named head of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau (Ch'ing Pao Chu), [...]
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Decision Strategies/ Vance, the two security and investigative affiliates of [...]
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When former Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien met with Vladimir [...]
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