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In the summary of our Middle East Section dated July 24, 2013

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES US cyber-spies strike electronic gold Without waiting for their former employee Edward Snowden to blow the whistle on their work as contractors to the National Security Agency (NSA), the US cyber-intelligence consultants Booz Allen Hamilton and others have already moved on to fresh pastures. The most lucrative is undoubtedly the Persian Gulf, particularly the United Arab Emirates, which is the first Arabian monarchy to have invested in electronic defence and attack capabilities. (...) Read more

GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE GREY AREAS SAUDI ARABIA / FRANCE 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. (...) BAHRAIN Bomb attack sparks speculation The car bomb explosion in Rifaa, a district where members of Bahrain’s royal family live, south of the capital Manama, on July 17, has fuelled the ruling monarchy’s (...) UNITED STATES / PAKISTAN Aid work led CIA to Bin Laden The recent Abbottabad report goes into detail about the CIA’s operational mode in Pakistan, particularly on how the agency recruited Shakeel Afridi, who helped (...) TURKEY - PKK appoints new security chiefs. While the PKK pursues its negotiations with the Turkish government via the intermediary (...) QATAR - Crown prince at five. An unexpected consequence of Sheikh Tamim becoming the new Emir of Qatar is that his (...) SYRIA - Aleppo bulldozer. To stem its losses in Aleppo, the Syrian Army appointed Brigadier General Issam Zahreddine (...) SAUDI ARABIA - GID sends Yemenites to Syria, To strengthen the ranks of the Syrian rebel forces, which are engaged in a deadly combat (...) UNITED STATES / ROMANIA - John Brennan, the new head of the CIA, visited the Romanian capital Bucarest at the beginning (...) CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Astrium won - or did Digital Globe lose? The French defence ministry has insistently trumpeted minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s role in EADs Astrium and Thales Alenia Space obtaining the contract to sell two observation satellites to the United Arab Emirates (IOL 680). (...)   FREE  SAUDI ARABIA EDF and Veolia share same network Veolia won a $464 million contract to build and operate a desalination plant serving Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Industrial City at the beginning of this month. (...) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Thales and Astrium’s partners. One of many questions that remains unanswered in the wake of the Thales and Astrium optical (...) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Restrata, the industrial security branch of Britain's Olive Group, has gone into partnership (...) UNITED KINGDOM / AFGHANISTAN - Page Group, finally obtained the contract to protect the European External Action Service (...) KAZAKHSTAN - Richard “Dick” Evans, was a VIP guest at the Astana Economic Forum last month, alongside (...)

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