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How the UK will weather climate change The UK was one of the first countries to realise that climate change poses a direct threat to international peace and security and persuaded ... 03-Dec-2008 EDITOR'S NOTES The recent visit of Colonel Ghadaffi's eldest son, Saif al-Islam, to Washington has again prompted pundits to suggest that Saif is evidently the successor... 02-Dec-2008 INTELLIGENCE POINTER Bolivian customs authorities seized 500 kg of munitions illegally entering the country on 26 November, according to Customs Director General Wilfredo Vargas. The Bolivian ... 02-Dec-2008 North Korea's delisting angers Japan President George W Bush's October 2008 decision to remove North Korea from the United States' list of state sponsors of terrorism and rescind the ... 28-Nov-2008 GCC states embrace nuclear energy The United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain are pursuing ambitious nuclear energy plans aimed at generating electricity and power to feed their growing economies. ... 01-Dec-2008 INTELLIGENCE POINTER Syria-UK intelligence co-operation increases Syrian officials revealed on 19 November that Syria and the UK have been holding high-level intelligence talks in an effort ... 25-Nov-2008 EDITOR'S NOTES Piracy in the Gulf of Aden is prompting Arab officials to urge the establishment of a pan-Arab naval force to confront pirates from Somalia. ... 25-Nov-2008 Russia's Kaliningrad gambit The missile ping-pong game between Russia and the West, centred on the tiny but armed-to-the-teeth Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, has begun taking on new ... 24-Nov-2008 Iran develops naval base at Jask Iran inaugurated one of its most remote military outposts on 27 October with a military ceremony held on the grounds of the base. Western ... 17-Nov-2008 Russia and the gas cartel The announcement by Russia, Iran and Qatar about the formation of a gas cartel similar to OPEC has reignited the West's concerns about the ... 17-Nov-2008 EDITOR'S NOTES On 6 November, local reports suggested that Mauritania and Morocco have stepped up border security amid concerns about terrorist attacks. Security forces on both ... 12-Nov-2008 Thai heroin seizure underlines ongoing drug trade On 10 November, Thai police arrested two drug traffickers in possession of approximately 104 kg of heroin in Phuket. The arrest of the traffickers ... 12-Nov-2008 EU eyes deployment in Kosovo The European Union has recently confirmed that its long-delayed rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, will become operational in December. It will mark the beginning ... 10-Nov-2008 Spies to come in from the cold? The US intelligence service is undergoing an overhaul that might result in the return to prominence of the secret agent. Human intelligence (HUMINT) was ... 07-Nov-2008 US hardliners warn of China's ambitions For more than 20 years, the United States government has sought to improve military relations with China to avert conflict and encourage Beijing to ... 07-Nov-2008 INTELLIGENCE POINTER Nepalese Army integration raises tensions Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese opposition leader and former prime minister, announced on 26 October that he opposed the merging ... 06-Nov-2008 EDITOR'S NOTES On 31 October, a Washington think-tank hosted Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. Those in attendance included... 06-Nov-2008 North African disunity aids Islamists Since 2006, North Africa has become a major front in the so-called 'war against terrorism'. While Algeria has witnessed regular attacks, Morocco, Tunisia and ... 03-Nov-2008 Brazil's intelligence service has controversy on tap In August, Brazilian weekly magazine Veja broke the news that a telephone conversation between the president of the Supreme Court and a senator had... 03-Nov-2008 US intelligence community in poll position The United States intelligence community could undergo major changes regardless of who wins the presidential election on 4 November. Both Republican senator John McCain ... 31-Oct-2008 New Pasha of ISI Not often does an appointment, and a military one at that, produce quite as much attention as that of Major-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha. There ... 29-Oct-2008 INTELLIGENCE POINTER On 23 October, María del Pilar Hurtado, director of the Colombian intelligence service Department of Administrative Security (Departamento Administrativo de Seguaridad: DAS) resigned after ... 29-Oct-2008 EDITOR'S NOTES Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov recently opened Europe's largest mosque in Grozny. At the inauguration, Kadyrov said that Russia fully supported Islam and it had ... 29-Oct-2008 Gorik Hakobian - head of the Armenian National Security Service Lieutenant General Gorik Hakobian has been the head of the Armenian National Security Service (NSS) since November 2004. Q. What are the main ... 27-Oct-2008 Mexican cartel seeks Italian renaissance In May 2008, US President George Bush designated the 'Ndrangheta criminal group as a "foreign narcotics kingpin", recognising its status as a dominant force ... 23-Oct-2008 INTELLIGENCE POINTER A Turkish court on 20 October began hearing a case against 86 people accused of charges related to terrorism associated with their alleged membership ... 23-Oct-2008 EDITOR'S NOTES Iranian news sites recently cited a Lebanese report about an "ultimatum" given to Colonel Qaddafi to release Imam Musa Sadr, a Shia religious figure ... 21-Oct-2008 Russia makes multipolar moves on Latin America Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is scheduled to visit Latin America in November. Before that visit, Moscow has been steadily increasing its regional presence. While... 20-Oct-2008 Missing the Holy Land deadline Back in November 2007, the Israeli-Palestinian negotiation track was announced to have re-opened. It took a bells-and-whistles Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, attended ... 17-Oct-2008 Russian gangs gain from Georgia incursion One of the unintended consequences of Russia's August invasion of Georgia and Moscow's subsequent recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is likely to be ... 16-Oct-2008 EDITOR'S NOTES Egyptian authorities are continuing their crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood, the largest organised opposition in the country. Recent months have seen scores of members arrested ... 15-Oct-2008 INTELLIGENCE POINTER Following the resignation of his entire cabinet on 10 October, President Alan García of Peru appointed the former governor of northern Lambayeque province, Yehude ... 15-Oct-2008 Pirates out of their depth as Ukraine sets sale On 25 September, a small band of buccaneers on speedboats boarded the cargo ship MV Faina in the Gulf of Aden on the eastern ... 15-Oct-2008 All change in the Pakistan military In a widely anticipated, but significant move, sweeping changes were made in key posts in the Pakistan army's high command on 29 September. The ... 13-Oct-2008 China tries to clean up its laundered money China has not traditionally been a money laundering centre, but with its recent economic surge the country's banking system has become a target for ... 13-Oct-2008 |
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