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Iran, United States
Al Qaeda/Mujahideen Tradeoff

At first glance it looked like a win-win deal: Tehran would extradite top Al Qaeda men who had taken refuge in Iran while Washington would hand over chiefs of the People's Mujahideen installed in Iraq over to Iran. [...]

Published on 05/09/2003 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Iraq, United States
Who Will Overthrow Saddam Hussein?

A tight endgame is being played out in London, Washington and Paris at present to plan the overthrow of Iraq’s [...]

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Iraq, United States
KEY FIGURES IN ANTI-SADDAM FIGHT

The four Americans that Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Council (INC), named in talks in Tehran late last [...]

Subscribers only 10.12.1998

Spotlight | UAE
U.A.E. OPEN THE GATES TO U.S.

Just as Abu Dhabi crown prince Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, deputy commander-in-chief of the United Arab Emirates' armed forces, and his brother, Mohamed bin Zayed, chief-of-staff of UAE's army, arrived in Washington amid much fanfare to announce their country's [.

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Spotlight | Israel
HAMAS TORN BETWEEN TALK AND STRUGGLE

In the wake of the double bomb attack in Jerusalem on July 31 leading Palestinian security and intelligence officials remain divided over how much they should cooperate with their Israeli counterparts in Shin Bet. The head of the General Intelligence [.

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Spotlight | Saudi Arabia, United States
SAUDIS AND AMERICANS DIFFER OVER SECURITY

Greeted like a head of state in Washington, Saudi Arabia's defense minister, prince Sultan Ibn Abd al Aziz, nonetheless made it plain to president Bill Clinton and his new security team that the Riyadh government differs over American security policy [.

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Spotlight | Middle East
GULF TORN BY INNER DIVISION

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is to hold its 17th summit meeting on Dec. 7 in the Qatari capital of Doha in the most divisive climate ever to grip the six-nation organization. In what is a tangible sign of Riyadh's [.

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Spotlight | Iran, Iraq
KURDISTAN THE ARENA FOR IRAN-IRAQ WAR

The factional fighting between Masoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Jalal Talabani's Kurdistan Patriotic Union (KPU) should be seen essentially as a new war between Iran and Iraq with Kurds serving as surrogates. A year ago Tehran infiltrated between [.

Subscribers only 05.09.1996

Iran, Iraq
IRAN AND IRAQ IN SECRET OIL DEAL

Iran has been purchasing large quantities of refined petroleum products from its old enemy Iraq and re-selling them on the [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.1996

Pakistan
PAKISTAN CRACKS DOWN ON AL-ANSAR

An international crisis team has been set up under the powerful Pakistani interior minister Nasirullah Babar since the assassination of [...]

Subscribers only 29.03.1995

Middle East
MANAMA FINGERS TEHRAN

Bahrain's foreign minister, sheik Mohamed ben Mubarak al-Khalifa, has pinned the blame on both Iran's Savama and Lebanon's Hezbollah for [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.1995

Egypt
CIA BACKS THE "BROTHERS"

During his visit last week to Egypt that took place in a highly charged diplomatic climate CIA director James Woolsey [...]

Subscribers only 14.12.1994

Spotlight | Sudan
FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

The release of French hostages in Lebanon in 1988 was achieved by secret non-governmental networks set up by Interior Minister Charles Pasqua. But this time the kidnapping of Carlos (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) in Sudan on 14 August was not a [.

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Spotlight | United States
TEHERAN'S WARNING

While the FBI was carrying out its investigation in the U.S. on the 26 February bombing at the World Trade Center in New York, two CIA teams were sent to Cyprus and Jordan. The agency was warned late last year [.

Subscribers only 17.03.1993

Spotlight | Italy
ARMS SALES: THE CASALEE MYSTERY

The trial in early 1991 in Brescia of the Valsellameccanotecnica (VSMT), the Fiat subsidiary accused of having sold nine million mines to Iraq between 1982 and 1986 (a $180 million contract), shed light on a company formerly unknown among arms [.

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Middle East
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TEHERAN'S WARNING

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France Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

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Spotlight | Middle East GULF TORN BY INNER DIVISION

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Middle East MANAMA FINGERS TEHRAN

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Spotlight | Sudan FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

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Israel
Israeli cyber bounces back after NSO woes

Central America, China, South America
Beijing on the offensive in Washington's spheres of influence

China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Europe, UN, United States
Lawfare: inside the pursuit to weaponise international law

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

Iran, United States
Al Qaeda/Mujahideen Tradeoff

Iraq, United States
Who Will Overthrow Saddam Hussein?

Iraq, United States
KEY FIGURES IN ANTI-SADDAM FIGHT

Spotlight | UAE
U.A.E. OPEN THE GATES TO U.S.

Spotlight | Israel
HAMAS TORN BETWEEN TALK AND STRUGGLE

Spotlight | Saudi Arabia, United States
SAUDIS AND AMERICANS DIFFER OVER SECURITY

Spotlight | Middle East
GULF TORN BY INNER DIVISION

Spotlight | Iran, Iraq
KURDISTAN THE ARENA FOR IRAN-IRAQ WAR

Iran, Iraq
IRAN AND IRAQ IN SECRET OIL DEAL

Pakistan
PAKISTAN CRACKS DOWN ON AL-ANSAR

Middle East
MANAMA FINGERS TEHRAN

Egypt
CIA BACKS THE "BROTHERS"

Spotlight | Sudan
FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

Spotlight | United States
TEHERAN'S WARNING

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