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UNITED STATES 26/03/2008 John Kringen The Central Intelligence Agency’s director for intelligence for the past [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 26/03/2008 Parliament still lacks say over agencies Eight months after delivering a speech on national security to the House of Commons (IOL 552), prime minister Gordon Brown [...]
UNITED STATES 26/03/2008 Vacancy at Intelligence Community’s Research Agency Still in an embryonic state, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA, the American intelligence community’s future R&D agency, (IOL [...]
UNITED STATES 26/03/2008 Washington’s Patience Running Out An attack against the American embassy on March 18 has cast suspicion over links between Ali Abdallah Saleh’s regime and Sunni militant movements. [...]
UNITED STATES 26/03/2008 New Anti-Terrorist Adviser for Bush The White House has picked Ken Wainstein to replace Fran [...]
LEBANON 26/03/2008 Christian Militia Take on Damascus? In receiving Christian leader Samir Geagea, Washington appears to be preparing for a re-activation of the latter’s militia forces if the Lebanese army crumbles. [...]
UNITED STATES 26/03/2008 New Chief for Space Intelligence Lobby Set up to forge ties between private and government agencies [...]
FRANCE 26/03/2008 Uplifting New Job for Amarante Founded less than a year ago, the private security concern Amarante will now see to the technical protection of Europe’s Ariane rocket in French Guiana. [...]
Spotlight UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 12/03/2008 Bahrain Entrusts Investigations to Kroll Jules Kroll built the reputation of the investigative firm that bears his name with major government contracts, and notably with Kuwait which retained him to track down Saddam Hussein's assets following the first Gulf war. [...]
EUROPE 12/03/2008 When UAVs Fly Alongside Airliners in Europe Free The leading manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Europe have just set up a consortium named Air4All. They hope to obtain rights to have their aircraft form part of ordinary air traffic in Europe. [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 12/03/2008 Margaret Beckett Prime minister Gordon Brown early last month completed his overhaul [...]
SAUDI ARABIA 12/03/2008 Bandar Bin Sultan Chairman of Saudi Arabia’s National Security Council, prince Bandar bin [...]
AFGHANISTAN 12/03/2008 Heading Off Suicide Attacks President Hamid Karzai plans to call on militias to help restore security in Afghanistan. The Afghan army itself counts only 30,000 troops instead of the 86,000 it was supposed to number by the end of 2007. [...]
UNITED STATES 12/03/2008 Defense Group, Leading Intelligence Consultancy The highly discreet firm Defense Group. (DGI) conducted an important study on the use of commercial satellites by the American [...]
UNITED STATES UNITED KINGDOM 12/03/2008 Security No Longer an Easy Sell Hit by a sharp drop in contracts in Iraq, Britain's ArmorGroup and the U.S. firm Triple Canopy are up for sale. [...]
Spotlight MIDDLE EAST 27/02/2008 Mughniyeh's "Ghost" Haunts the Region The assassination of Hezbollah's external security chief Imad Mughniyeh, nicknamed the "ghost", in Damascus on Feb 12 drove a wedge into the hitherto solid alliance between Damascus, Tehran and the Shi'ite movement. Each camp is conducting its own inquiry into [. [...]
UNITED STATES 27/02/2008 Virtual World to Break Down Walls Between Agencies? Free The new research programs of the director of national intelligence (DNI) in the U.S. have begun to integrate virtual reality technologies. The DNI sees this as a way to get analysts from different agencies working together. [...]
UNITED STATES 27/02/2008 Thomas McLarty After eight years of working with Henry Kissinger, Thomas McLarty, [...]
UNITED STATES 27/02/2008 Orion Pushes Cases for NATO Membership Already Georgia's lobbyist in the United States (IOL 479), Orion Strategies has just been retained by Macedonia as well. The [...]