Intelligence’s military role grows under Obama
When he moved into the White House in 2009, Barak Obama set out to limit the role of the intelligence services in U.S. military operations. But in practice he has done the exact opposite. The CIA and the Pentagon’s paramilitary units are active on all fronts, in Pakistan, Yemen and Libya, backing up standard military operations. This shift has profoundly changed the balance of power in the U.S. intelligence community...
FRANCE / ISRAEL
Sarkozy’s doublespeak on Israel
Nicolas Sarkozy agrees with the notion of Israel as a Jewish state in private, but in public he will never deviate from France’s official support of Israel as “two nations for two peoples”, according to a 2009 U.S. diplomatic cable from the U.S. embassy in Paris...
ISRAEL
Netanyahu’s Orthodox choice
The new head of the Shabak, Israel’s internal intelligence service, is a devout Orthodox Jew, prompting concern that the agency will be soft on extremist Jewish groups...
AFGHANISTAN / CENTRAL ASIA
SYRIA / TURKEY
UKRAINE / UNITED STATES
FRANCE
Ministry launches anti-hacker project
Paralysed two years ago by the Conficker virus (IOL 587 ), the French Defence Ministry wants to equip itself against the threat of a computer attack that could...
IRAN - More mysterious pipeline explosions For the second time in less than two months, the gas pipelines linking the refineries...
BAHRAIN / LEBANON - Lebanese Shi’ites expelled Convinced that a Bahraini Hezbollah has been operating in the kingdom for several years...
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