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GID

Jordan’s General Intelligence Directorate (GID) is one of the most reputed intelligence service in the Middle East. The agency keeps close track of jihadist groups in Jordan and works closely with the US, British and Israeli intelligence services.

Omar Zeidan, the doyen of Franco-Arabian deal-makers

Omar Zeidan is one of the best-connected among the established agents of French industry in the Arab world. He is [...]

SAUDI ARABIA UNITED STATES Government Intelligence 20/11/2013

Brennan snubs Bandar

At odds over Syria, the communication lines are severed between the heads of U.S. and Saudi foreign intelligence.

SYRIA Government Intelligence 20/11/2013

Saudi Arabia's special operations

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who runs Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department (GID), is working to unite the host of Jihadist [...]

IRAN SAUDI ARABIA Government Intelligence 06/11/2013

GID's secret war in Sistan, Iran

Now embarking on its own clandestine operations without consulting the US, Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Directorate (GID) is egging on Sunni militants in eastern Iran.

TURKEY UNITED STATES Government Intelligence 23/10/2013

CIA versus Turkey's MIT?

The ever-widening gap between the interests of the United States and Turkey, particularly over Syria, have sown tension between their intelligence agencies.

SAUDI ARABIA Government Intelligence 23/10/2013

Bandar bin Sultan

Bandar bin Sultan, chief of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Directorate [...]

SpotlightEUROPE MIDDLE EAST Corporate Intelligence 09/10/2013

Paris chases double whammy in Gulf

In the wake of the Falcon Eye contract that Thales and EADS landed in the United Arab Emirates on July 22, Paris has shifted into higher gear to sell another military observation satellite in the region, this time to Saudi [.

SpotlightSAUDI ARABIA UNITED STATES Government Intelligence 25/09/2013

Riyadh rethinks military without US

US moves in the region in the past couple of years have prompted some serious thought in Saudi Arabia: Despite the two countries' alliance, would Barack Obama intervene militarily if the Saudi monarchy came under threat?

SAUDI ARABIA Government Intelligence 11/09/2013

The GID

The GID, Saudi Arabia's external intelligence service, has warned the [...]

RUSSIA SAUDI ARABIA SYRIA Government Intelligence 28/08/2013

Bandar gets nowhere with Putin on Syria

Before Western countries decided to launch air strikes against the Syrian regime, the Saudi head of intelligence tried to sway Putin to drop Bashar al-Assad.

FRANCE SAUDI ARABIA Government Intelligence 24/07/2013

Bandar's unconvincing Paris pitch

The head of Saudi intelligence failed to get a firm guarantee on arming Syria's rebels from either the French president or his European counterparts.

SAUDI ARABIA Government Intelligence 24/07/2013

GID sends Yemenites to Syria

To strengthen the ranks of the Syrian rebel forces, which [...]

SAUDI ARABIA Government Intelligence 10/07/2013

Bandar bin Sultan

Bandar bin Sultan, the head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence [...]

SAUDI ARABIA Government Intelligence 26/06/2013

Bandar bin Sultan

Bandar bin Sultan, the head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence [...]

SpotlightISRAEL SYRIA UNITED STATES Government Intelligence 12/06/2013

Last ditch mediation efforts underway

Ahead of the Syria conference which is expected to take place in Geneva next month, the United States and Israel have discreetly reopened communication lines with President Bashar Al Assad's regime, which has notched up a series of military successes [.

IRAQ Government Intelligence 29/05/2013

Army of Tribes helped by intelligence services

At a meeting in Istanbul on May 17, Turkey, Saudi [...]

JORDAN Government Intelligence 15/05/2013

The GID

The GID, which has been acting as the proxy of [...]

Insiders EUROPE MIDDLE EAST 14/05/2013

Dominique de Villepin, businessman poet

Since 2008, Dominique de Villepin has been reaping the benefits of a network of business contacts built up over 30 years in the corridors of power. His law firm, Villepin international, which opened in April 2008, is devoted to his new profession of business facilitator.

Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

SYRIA Government Intelligence 24/04/2013

Syria: chemical contingency plans

Western nations and the Gulf monarchies are making contingency plans to intervene in Syria if the regime uses chemical weapons.

JORDAN SYRIA Government Intelligence 10/04/2013

Syria: Abdullah II tries secret mediation

The King of Jordan, whose own country has had to deal with an influx of Syrian refugees, recently tried negotiating with the Syrian authorities.

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GID

Omar Zeidan, the doyen of Franco-Arabian deal-makers

Brennan snubs Bandar

Saudi Arabia's special operations

GID's secret war in Sistan, Iran

CIA versus Turkey's MIT?

Bandar bin Sultan

Paris chases double whammy in Gulf

Riyadh rethinks military without US

The GID

Bandar gets nowhere with Putin on Syria

Bandar's unconvincing Paris pitch

GID sends Yemenites to Syria

Bandar bin Sultan

Bandar bin Sultan

Last ditch mediation efforts underway

Army of Tribes helped by intelligence services

The GID

Dominique de Villepin, businessman poet

Syria: chemical contingency plans

Syria: Abdullah II tries secret mediation

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