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Subject: INT 473
INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122
N. 473, 13 February 2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 473, 13 February 2006
FRONT PAGE
PALESTINE - INTELLIGENCE FAILURE & HAMAS VICTORY p.1
TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES
TIMELINE FROM 20 JANUARY TO 10 FEBRUARY p.2
RQ-1 PREDATOR & ASSASSINATIONS WITH "COLLATERAL DAMAGE" p.3 RECENT
INTELLIGENCE REPORTS & BOOKS p.4
PEOPLE
CORRECTION - Richard Spearman and MI6. p.5 NORTHERN IRELAND - LINDSAY ROBB
p.6 BELGIUM - KOEN DASSEN p.7
AGENDA
COMING EVENTS THROUGH 31 MARCH 2006 p.8
INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD
USA - "SNOOPGATE" IS SINKING BUSH WHITE HOUSE p.9
- CIA & DOD TORTURE CONTINUES AS BEFORE p.10
- PENTAGON PERSONNEL PROBLEMS & FUTURE WARS TOO p.11
- "PLAMEGATE", CHENEY DID IT p.12
- KATRINA LYING & OTHER POLITICAL STORIES p.13
- WAITING FOR THE PHOTOS OF GEORGE WITH JACK p.14
- POLICE SPY POLICE & OTHER FBI STORIES p.15
- CIA, Predators, Greece & P.R. Pillar. p.16 GREAT BRITAIN - NO MORE
INTEL BACKING FOR POLITICS p.17
- A PAIR OF DECEITFUL WARMONGERING ROGUES p.18
- OPERATION KRATOS COVER-UP p.19
- Soldier "Labor" Problems. p.20 NORTHERN IRELAND - IMC & THE
SAME OLD STORY p.21 RUSSIA - MI6 SPY RING ROLLED UP p.22 EASTERN EUROPE -
Georgia, Islamic Rebels, Kosovo. p.23 LATIN AMERICA - Chile, Venezuela &
Colombia. p.24 MIDDLE EAST - Blasphemy & Freedom of Expression. p.25 IRAQ -
NO BASIC NECESSITIES, PLUS A WAR p.26 IRAN - "CRITICAL" BUT NOT A "CRISIS"
SITUATION p.27 NEW ZEALAND - ECHELON'S LITTLE BROTHER p.28 ASIA - East
Timor, China, Pakistan & Nepal. p.29
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Intelligence, N. 473, 13 February 2006, p. 1
PALESTINE
INTELLIGENCE FAILURE & HAMAS VICTORY
On 26 January, the world press announced the "surprise"
electoral victory of Hamas in Palestine:
0126 UN, Hamas snares surprise victory
0126 WP, Hamas Claims Victory in Palestinian Elections - Group says it has
clear majority of seats; Prime Minister and Cabinet resign, Scott Wilson
0126 ERRI, Hamas Wins Election in Surprise Result
The "surprise" was in reality a catastrophic intelligence failure on the
part of the American CIA, and the Israeli Mossad and Shin Bet. As documented
in both recent and less current books and articles, these intelligence
services had "assisted"
Hamas in becoming a serious challenger to the Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO) of Yasser Arafat in order to weaken the latter
organization's challenge to Israel and its military occupation of
Palestinian territory. As recently as April 2005, a secret meeting took
place in Geneva between the Hamas and Israeli authorities ("Le Canard
Enchaine" (Paris), 1 & 8 February 2006). American Middle-East specialist
Steve Cohen also met with Hamas in January 2004 in Gaza.
But while helping Hamas challenge the PLO, the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet
failed to see -- or realized too late -- they were creating an even more
redoubtable enemy.
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Intelligence, N. 473, 13 February 2006, p. 2
TIMELINE FROM 20 JANUARY TO 10 FEBRUARY
In our preceding issue of "Intelligence", we stated that "there are calls
for Bush's impeachment because of NSA spying on Americans, but these calls
come mostly from the political left and may not find as much support among
Americans." The situation has changed in Washington with increasing GOP
opposition to Bush White House spying on Americans.
As we mentioned previously: "Since mid-November, there has been no let up in
successive Bush White House scandals that have been leading intelligence and
security topics in the media.
Even the first of these scandals -- the Rove-Libby 'Plamegate'
scandal -- is still a current media topic, although it has dropped behind
successive major scandals. The next one of come up -- and is still a major
media topic -- was Bush torture policy and the associated secret CIA
kidnapping of suspects which has become the dominant topic in European
media. But back in the States, Bush torture/CIA kidnapping has been swept
from first place by more 'domestic' scandals. First of all is Bush's
authorization of spying on Americans by the NSA. This scandal is all the
more important because of clear left and right opposition to such an
ineffective and repressive security and intelligence policy." This statement
remains current even a month later.
The major corruption and lobbying scandal continues to unfold with the
indictment and plea-bargaining of right-wing Republican lobbyist and
power-broker, Jack Abramoff, and Bush's insistence that he doesn't know
Abramoff. The Iraq War and Washington talk about "getting out of Iraq"
continue, as does the continuing crisis associated with Iran's nuclear
policy. In our preceding issue, we stated that: "The Iranian crises is the
current first-place crisis in this 'back-burner' category, but this could
change rapidly." Indeed, it has changed in an unexpected direction with the
electoral victory of Hamas in Palestine, the subject of our Front Page
article.
Our policy has been to publish detailed headline listings in a
double-section timeline article. The first section -- "Major Events and
Reports" -- consisted of a smaller number of the more significant entries
which were listed with few additional details. The second section --
"Detailed Daily Entries" -- was the complete list of daily entries with
references and full additional details. With this issue, we continue to
publish the "Major Events and Reports" section below. However, following
requests to integrated the "Detailed Daily Entries" into topical articles to
better follow detailed developments, we will be distributing these detailed
daily entries throughout the issue and, in some cases, organizing entire
articles around media reports that cover a specific topic particularly well.
MAJOR EVENTS AND REPORTS
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AGENDA
Intelligence, N. 473, 13 February 2006, p. 8
COMING EVENTS THROUGH 31 MARCH 2006
17 February, Beverly Hills, California, NDIA, 56th West Coast Dinner,
rankin-group.com.
17-20 February, Arlington, Virginia, IHEC, Intelligence Summit, with the
participation of former CIA directors James Woolsey and John Deutch, tel. 1
727 374 5479.
19-20 February, Singapore, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems
International, Unmanned Systems Asia-Pacific, auvsi.org/events.
20-21 February, London, SMI, Fourth Annual Homeland Security and Resilience,
smi-online.co.uk.
26-28 February, Dallas, Texas, Helicopter Association, International Heli
Expo, heliexpo.com.
8-10 March, Arlington, Virginia, TTC, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Conference,
ttcs.com.
8-10 March, Washington, International Association of Privacy Professionals
(IAPP) National Summit, privacyassociation.org/registration.
21 March, Seattle, Washington, University of Washington School of Law,
Beyond the Basics: Advanced Legal Topics in Open Source and Collaborative
Development in the Global Marketplace, law.washington.edu/lct/Events/FOSS/.
27-28 March, Las Vegas, Nevada, TTC, Future Air Warfare Conference,
ttcus.com.
30-31 March, London, Saab, Air Weapons Integration, defenceiq.com/2628a.
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