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1-13 May 2010 Initiator: Johan Mostert Editor: Dalene Duvenage Contributions and enquiries dalene@4knowledge.co.za

Reports from 1-12 Mei 2010 Europe: 1.

Cameron chairs first National Security Council meeting 3. UK MI5 agent gives evidence in Real IRA arms plot trial 3. Bulgaria pres appoints army generals in spat’s aftermath 4. Spanish prosecutors want 13 CIA agents arrested 5. Europe’s antiterrorism agencies favor human intelligence over technology 6. France to use intelligence agency in rumour crackdown 7. Analysis: an economic security role for European spy agencies?

7. Russian military thinking today Africa 7. Kenya proposed constitution creates new-look security structures 8. South Africa: Minister of State’s budget speech Oceania 11. Strengthening Australia’s national security capacity 12. Australia: new phone tap powers planned for spy review 13. ASIS to write history 14. NZ: changes to intelligence agencies governance announced 15. Fiji to set up National Intelligence Agency Asia 15. North Korea: tasks of the General Bureau of Reconnaissance 16. India blacklists Chinese phone companies over spying concerns North America 17. Canadian CSIS investigates more than 200 for terrorist links 18. US: Kit Bond: Obama has made us less safe Middle East 19. Dubai assassination fall-out continues: 1) Britain refuses 20.

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to accept Mossad replacement 2) South Africa: Mo Shaik on Mossad Agents Kuwait: media banned from reporting on alleged Iran spy ring Could Mossad be responsible for an unexpected boost to the UAE security sector?

Tel Aviv and Ankara break secret pact Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of spying, contact wit hHezbollah

Anti money laundering and terrorist financing 22. Banks, intel services can pool data to disrupt Qaeda 23.

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funds 500 Euro note withdrawn in Britain Canada: Tamil Tiger case puts spotlight on laws against financing terrorism

From the editor It has been a busy week for intelligence organisations worldwide. The new UK coalition government’s security policies will impact on how intelligence is managed and conducted there, with the newly established National Security Council that sat for the first time last night, 12 May 2010.

In other parts of the world, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, Fiji, also here in South Africa, restructuring and refocusing of resources is the order of the day. In Europe, intelligence organisations start focusing on economic intelligence, while SA closed down the same capacity two years ago…

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Europe UK: Cameron chairs first National Security Council meeting 13 May 2010, London (Ed: various sources combined)

Prime Minister David Cameron has chaired the first meeting of the new National Security Council on 12 May 2010. The body, made up of senior ministers, military chiefs and the heads of the secret service, discussed the military situation in Afghanistan. It was also briefed on the UK's wider strategic and security position.

Deputy PM Nick Clegg, Chancellor George Osborne and Foreign Secretary William Hague were among those who attended the Downing Street meeting. The council was set up on Wednesday to co-ordinate the efforts of government departments and agencies to safeguard UK security.

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The other figures who attended were: Home The Prime Minister has appointed Sir Peter Secretary Theresa May, Defence Secretary Ricketts (Permanent Undersecretary at the Liam Fox, International Development Foreign and Commonwealth Office) as his Secretary Andrew Mitchell, Security minister National Security Adviser, a new role based in Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, Cabinet Office the Cabinet Office. Sir Peter will establish the minister Francis Maude, Cabinet Secretary new National Security Council structures, and Gus O'Donnell, the chairman of the Joint coordinate and deliver the Government’s Intelligence committee, the director-general international security agenda. of the Security Service, Sir John Sawers, the The Council will coordinate responses to the head of MI6, who is identified on the name dangers we face, integrating at the highest label in front of him only as "C", and the level the work of the foreign, defence, home, director of GCHQ. energy and international development The National Security Council brings together departments, and all other arms of the main figures in the foreign policy, defence government contributing to national security. and security fields, rather like the American The Council will be chaired by the Prime one. The British system until now has been Minister. Permanent members will be the far more informal. The Foreign Office has Deputy Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the secured the role of National Security Adviser Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Foreign for one of its senior officials, Sir Peter and Commonwealth Affairs, the Home Ricketts.

Secretary, the Secretary of State for Defence, A strategic defence review will be held and in the Secretary of State for International the meantime defence spending will remain Development and the Security Minister. as it is. But one decision from the previous Other Cabinet Ministers, including the government stands, one the Liberal Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Democrats opposed at the time - the upgrade Change, will attend as required. The Chief of of the Trident sea-based nuclear weapons the Defence Staff, Heads of Intelligence system.

Agencies and other Senior Officials will also attend as required. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8678135.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8679082.stm http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/05/establishment-of-a-national-securitycouncil-49953

Historical photo of the first National Security Council meeting on 12 May 2010 Photo: BBC

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UK MI5 agent gives evidence in Real IRA arms plot trial Guardian, 6 May 2010 (Ed: Excerpted)

terrorism. Kearns is accused of conspiring to An intelligence agent began giving evidence possess firearms and explosives, and Gregory today against three Northern Irish men of the restaurant charge. accused of involvement in a dissident republican arms-smuggling plot.

In July 2005, the security services told Amir that he should introduce a man to Kearns as a The man, identified only as "Amir", appeared weapons expert called Ejaz. The witness said at Belfast crown court but was partially that when the subject of guns was raised, screened. The undercover operative, who Kearns said he would go back to his spoke with an English accent, did not identify associates and see what they thought but his branch of the security services but an insisted he did not want to get involved in any earlier hearing was told the operation was meetings himself. A tape recording of one part of an MI5 sting against the Real IRA. meetings in an Amsterdam bar has been Between them the County Armagh men – played in court. The operation, which the Paul Anthony John McCaugherty, 43, and court previously heard related to what police Desmond Paul Kearns, 44, both from Lurgan, believe was an international gun smuggling and 41-year-old Dermot Declan Gregory, also operation, involved numerous meetings known as Michael Dermot, from Crossmaglen throughout Europe and even Istanbul in – deny a total of seven charges.

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McCaugherty is accused of conspiring to Various conversations during the multitude of possess firearms and explosives and using meetings were secretly taped and in some almost €46,000 for terrorist purposes, cases even videoed. Again at an earlier membership of "the Irish Republican army", hearing Mr Justice Hart was told that there and making the deeds of a restaurant in were 90 hours of bugged conversations.

Portugal available for the purposes of http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/06/mi5-agent-real-ira-arms-trial

Bulgaria President Appoints Army Generals in Spat's Aftermath Defense | May 4, 2010

Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov (pictured), appointed 5 new army generals despite recent disagreements with Defense Minister, Anyu Angelov.

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One of them is colonel Todor Kodzheikov, Deputy Chief of the National Protection Services, and former Chief of Security of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, since the times the latter was Chief Secretary of the Interior and Mayor of Sofia.

Kodzheikov has also worked as security for former President, Petar Stoyanov. The other 4 are: the Head of the Army “Logistics”

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Directorate, Zhivko Mihaylov, the Head of the “Preparation and Use of Armed Forces” Directorate, Marin Nachev, the Commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, Petar Petrov, and the Commander of the 61st Mechanical Brigade, Krasimir Kanev.

Gen. Kircho Kirov, Head of the National Intelligence Services, and Gen. Dimitar Dimitrov, Head of the National Protection Services, were promoted by Parvanov to the rank “General-Lieutenant.”

A conflict erupted at the end of April between the President and Defense Minister Anyu Angelov, only 2 weeks before the army holiday, May 6, when army promotions are announced. Angelov accused Parvanov, who

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is the Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian armed forces, of blocking senior army appointments because the Minister has refused to promote one of the President's close associates - military security advisor, Nikolay Nikolov.

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appointments to the President, who is supposed to seal them.

In the aftermath, Parvanov rejected the accusations, backed Nikolov’s nomination, saying he is a quality military expert and added that the President and the government According to Bulgarian legislation, the Council should work together in harmony over army of Ministers proposes the promotions and appointments. http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=115886

Spanish prosecutors want 13 CIA agents arrested Washington 12 May 2010 (Ed: excerpted)

prosecutors’ list, which they said were provided by the Guardia Civil, or national police.

El Pais indicated that police obtained guest records from a luxury hotel in Majorca that showed CIA personnel stayed there under false names on the night before they flew to Skopje to pick up Masri.

Prosecutors believe that the London-based human rights organization “Reprieve” has the real names of the CIA operatives, according to El Pais, and have asked the National Court to subpoena the authors of the list “for the purposes of ratifying the report about the identification of the true identity of the crew."

The CIA refuses to confirm or deny the accuracy of the names, as it did in a similar case in Milan.

Last year nearly two dozen CIA operatives were convicted in absentia in Milan on charges of kidnapping a suspected al Qaeda operative known as Abu Omar, in 2003. The Italian Ministry of Justice refused to honor the Milan prosecutor's request to ask Washington for the extradition of agents.

The same outcome could await Spanish prosecutors, regardless of whether the National Court honors their request.

Spanish prosecutors are asking a judge to issue arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents who they believe were involved in the spy agency’s 2004 “extraordinary rendition” of a German citizen, according to Spain's El Pais newspaper.

Prosecutors claim jurisdiction in the case because CIA personnel who handled the rendition of Khaled El-Masri had a stopover in Majorca en route to Macedonia. El-Masri has said he was taken to Afghanistan, where he was tortured for several months and then released when the CIA realized it had been a case of mistaken identity.

The Madrid-based El Pais listed the names of the alleged CIA employees as James Fairing, Jason Franklin, Michael Grady, Lyle Edgar Lumsen III, Eric Matthew Fain, Charles Goldman Bryson, Kirk James Bird, Walter Richard Greensbore, Patricia O'Riley, Jane Payne, James O'Hale, John Richard Deckard and Héctor Lorenzo (Ed: names added), saying prosecutors suspected them of involvement in the abduction of El-Masri from Macedonia, where he was vacationing, to a secret CIA prison known as the “Salt Pit.” But much remains uncertain about the case, including the accuracy of the names on the http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/05/spanish_prosecutors_want_13_ci.html

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Europe's antiterrorism agencies favor human intelligence over technology

France were uncovered because of information received from human sources, PARIS -- The tip from Spain was only a vague recruited among a Muslim population warning. But it was enough for France's estimated at more than 5 million. domestic intelligence agents to go to work, tapping phones, tailing suspects and "In the shadows, we put into place -- for squeezing informants. Before long, they months, sometimes years -- detection rolled up a group of Muslim men in a systems, surveillance arrangements that provincial French town who, beneath a allow us to act at the right moment," Bernard tranquil surface, were drawing up al-QaedaSquarcini, until recently the DCRI director, inspired plans to set off a bomb in the Paris said in an interview with Le Point subway. magazine. "Our obsession is to anticipate, that is, to neutralize The plot, described by a source terrorists before they strike." with firsthand information, was one of 15 planned terrorist attacks In France, to pressure for more by jihadist cells in France that have information and keep would-be been thwarted in recent years, terrorists off balance, the specialists according to a count by the Central said, police and domestic Directorate of Internal Intelligence intelligence officers carry out (DCRI), France's main antiterrorism force. One frequent raids, taking young Muslim men into was a bomb plot directed against the custody for interrogation and intimidation. directorate's own headquarters. "You have That treatment extends to Islamic groups that got to be proactive," said Jean-Louis may never imagine carrying out a terrorist Bruguière, who as an investigating magistrate attack but eventually could help with handled many of France's major antiterrorism logistics, even unwittingly, or just hear about cases and now is a liaison to the U.S. Treasury someone with violent plans.

Department on terrorist financing. "It is not a About three dozen people have question of defense." been sentenced to prison over the From the beginning, Bruguire and other last three years in connection with specialists said, the emphasis in Europe antiterrorism raids, many of them has been on domestic human under a broad-gauge law that intelligence rather than the defines as a crime "criminal computerized systems such as watch association with intent to commit lists favored by U.S. security agencies. Jean Luis Bruguire terrorism," according to a recent That has meant tedious hours of Interior Ministry report. surveillance, patient listening-in on Peter Neumann, director of the Londontelephone conversations, careful review of based International Center for the Study of bank records, and relentless recruitment of Radicalization and Political Violence, said informants among Islamic zealots who are British officials also seek to penetrate motivated to betray acquaintances by seedbeds for Islamic violence before it everything from fear of losing visas to a desire happens and, in doing so, are willing to work to clear the name of Islam in European minds. with what he called "slightly dubious A DCRI field agent, interviewed recently on characters."

France 2 television under restricted "In Britain, if a group came forward and said conditions with his face blurred out, said all that, we are against al-Qaeda but we are kind 15 of the terrorist plots stopped recently in of thinking that Hamas suicide bombings in May 12, 2010 (Ed: Excerpted)

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Israel are okay, this would not stop funding by and can hold suspects for questioning over the British government," he said. "In America, two days -- or more in terrorism cases -that ambiguity would not be tolerated." without intervention by defense lawyers.

Police and prosecutors in other European Francois Heisbourg, a defense specialist who countries have similar latitude. played a key role in drafting the white paper outlining France's antiterrorism policies, "Even though we're similarly democratic, we noted that French and other European police have very different views of the practical also have more latitude in dealing with application of those values," said Kenneth terrorism suspects than their American Wainstein, homeland security and counterparts. counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush and a former assistant attorney The DCRI, for instance, has been exempted general for national security. "I recall being from oversight by France's National surprised when our European counterparts Committee on Computer Science and discussed cracking down on jihadist rhetoric Liberties, allowing it to monitor computer on the Internet. That would never fly here. messages and Islamic Web sites without For us, much of that rhetoric would be outside restriction. protected by the First Amendment."

French police can demand a show of identity for no specific reason, Heisbourg recalled, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/12/AR2010051204361.html

France to use intelligence agency in rumour crackdown PARIS, Fri May 7, 2010

(Reuters) - French financial authorities will work with intelligence services to crack down on speculators seeking to profit from the debt crisis by spreading unfounded rumors, the head of the AMF markets watchdog said on Friday.

"We are in a period when rumors are affecting the security of states, the credibility of the euro zone," AMF president Jean-Pierre Jouyet told I-Tele television. He said market authorities would use all the means at their disposal and would work with the DCRI, a domestic intelligence service that normally handles cases of counter espionage and cybercrime. If necessary, investigators would look at "everything which might have been exchanged in the form of emails, text messages, anything which might have been put up on internal bulletin boards at banks or funds," he said.

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condemnation in Europe of what many politicians have described as speculative attacks against the euro on financial markets.

On Thursday, markets were roiled by talk of an imminent downgrade on Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy.

The spread between Italian and German benchmark 10-year bonds widened to 130 basis points after rumors that Standard & Poor's was preparing to cut its rating on Italy. The agency later reiterated its stable outlook for the country.

Jouyet said it would be particularly scandalous if it emerged that banks which had benefited from state support following the financial crisis of 2008 had been involved in dubious speculative operations against the euro.

"If it turns out to be institutions helped by the state -- something that I can scarcely imagine -- it would be a pure scandal," he said. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64654 H20100507

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speculative attacks on money markets, most Last February, Spain’s intelligence service of which allegedly originated from London began investigating alleged suspicious efforts and Washington. by foreign financial speculators to destabilize It is clear that one European government the Spanish economy. after another is resorting to its intelligence According to newspaper El País, the Spanish apparatus to combat what increasingly government asked the country’s Centro resembles a sustained financial war on the Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) to probe links eurozone. between speculative moves in world financial Moreover, the new, more aggressive markets and a series of damaging editorials functions of European intelligence agencies, “in the Anglo-Saxon media”. which are already apparent in countries like There are indications that the National Holland, Belgium and Germany, among Intelligence Service of Greece (EYP) is others, include a very definite economic following in the CNI’s footsteps. In February, parameter. On the website of the Research when Athens and Brussels began to realize Institute for European and American Studies, the magnitude of the financial crisis I explain the growing connection between threatening the European common currency, intelligence gathering and economics in several news outlets suggested that the EYP Europe and beyond. was cooperating with Spanish, Irish and Ed: Read Fitsanakis’ report here.

Portuguese intelligence services in investigating a series of coordinated http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/02-314/ May 10, 2010 · By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS intelNews.org

Russian Military Thinking Today

attention to Russia’s socio-economic and This issue of the Russian Analytical Digest demographic problems in the Far East and analyzes current Russian military thinking.

Siberia. This issue also includes a number of First, Marcel de Haas examines the drafting opinion polls that examine the Russian process and the final text of the 2010 Russian population’s perception of external military military doctrine. Second, Simon Saradzhyan threats toward their country. discusses the role of China in Russia’s military thinking. The author draws particular http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/116019/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/e b928e94-11f2-4dc9-b9b6-fdb1ba64a629/en/Russian_Analytical_Digest_78.pdf

Africa Kenya: Proposed constitution creates new-look security structures The Standard, 07/05/2010

The proposed new Kenyan constitution seeks to establish a new-look national security system, which will include the Kenya Defence

Forces, National Intelligence Service and a National Police Service. Their mandate will be to ensure protection against internal and external threats to Kenya’s territorial integrity

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and sovereignty, its people, their rights, freedoms and other interests. The organs will be required to be impartial, further no interest of a political party or prejudice a political interest.

The document also proposes Parliament enacts legislation to provide for the functions, organisation and administration of the national security organs.

There will be a National Security Council that will exercise supervisory control over the national security organs. Members of the council will be the President, Deputy President, Cabinet Secretaries for Defence, Foreign Affairs, Internal Security and the Attorney General.

Chief of Kenya Defence Forces, the Director-General of the National Intelligence Service and Inspector-General of the National Police Service will also be council members.

The council shall integrate the domestic, foreign and military policies on security. The proposed law says the council shall report annually to Parliament on the state of security.

National forces With the approval of Parliament, the council may deploy national forces outside Kenya for regional or international peace support or other support operations, besides approving deployment of foreign forces in Kenya.

Kenya Defence Forces will consist of the Army, Air Force and Navy to defend sovereignty and territorial integrity of the republic.

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"The composition of the command of the Defence Forces shall reflect the regional and ethnic diversity of the people of Kenya," reads part of the document.

There will be a Defence Council for the overall policy, control, and supervision of the Kenya Defence Forces.

National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) will change its name to the National Intelligence Service to be responsible for security intelligence.

The National Police Service will consist of the Kenya Police Service and the Administration Police Service. The head of National Police Service will be an InspectorGeneral, who will approval of Parliament.

The Kenya Police Service and the Administration Police Service shall each be headed by a Deputy Inspector-General appointed by the President in accordance with the recommendation of the National Police Service Commission.

"Cabinet Secretary responsible for police services may lawfully give direction to the Inspector-General with respect to any matter of policy for the Kenya Police Service, but no person may give direction to the InspectorGeneral," says the document. http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage. php?id=2000009157&cid=4&story=Document %20creates%20newlook%20security%20structures

South Africa: Minister of State Security's Budget Speech 5 May 2010 (Ed: Extracted) Once more we want to reassure the world that we are ready to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Our assessment to date does not indicate any security threat to the event State Security Minister Cwele

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including the cancer of global terrorism.

However we are not lowering our guard. We are grateful to our partners in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Africa and the rest of the world who continue to share intelligence regarding the security of the tournament.

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Review of the intelligence architecture I am honoured to report that in September 2009, a single department, the State Security Agency (SSA), was established by a Presidential Proclamation. The command and control of the civilian intelligence community has been centralised under the Director-General Mr Maqetuka, assisted by Heads of Domestic and External Components; Mr Njenje and Mr Shaik respectively.

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completed by 15 December 2009. It will address the security gaps at our ports of entry and along our border line. The objective is to promote free movement of goods and people while preventing illegality. In this regard, the BMA will improve the security of our borders and ports of entry and promote trade within the region.

We have set up an inter-departmental task team at a Director-Generals level to conceptualise and develop the BMA. This

Mr Sokupa remains the Coordinator for DG Njenje of task team has registered considerable NIA Intelligence.

These high level progress. It set up various work streams appointments were followed by the namely; the ports of entry, infrastructure, appointment of a Deputy Director-General for human resource and budget. We have also Corporate Services, Professor Africa and the concluded a feasibility study required to chief financial officer. We are currently ensure that the BMA becomes a legal in the process of filling critical posts of entity in the next three months. We the chief information officer, head of are currently in the process of human resources and head of internal obtaining approval from the audit. Since 1 April 2010, the DirectorDepartment of Public Service and General of the SSA has been the sole Administration and National Treasury. accounting officer for the agency. We We also undertook to resubmit the DG Shaik of are grateful to the University of Pretoria draft Protection of Information Bill to SASS for seconding Professor Africa to the Parliament in order secure the integrity agency to lead and manage this massive task of sensitive state information and of restructuring. criminalise the activities of those engaging in In line with our undertaking to complete the espionage and information peddling. The bill reorganisation of State Security institutions has been tabled before Parliament and is swiftly and without disruptions, our goals for being considered by the Ad Hoc Committee.

2010 includes the following: Given the importance of the bill, we urge the Ad Hoc Committee to expedite * Tabling of the National State its processing.

Security Bill to effect the amalgamation of the various Sixteen years after the advent of intelligence components into a single democracy, the White Paper on entity Intelligence is due for review. In * Redeployment of members into new Coordinator of addition, during our last budget vote structures and upgrading of their skills debate, we undertook to prioritise the Intelligence Sokupa to ensure that the agency has adequate finalisation of the national security human capital to meet the new challenges strategy by the end of the term of this and government. The main purpose of the * Integrating technology platforms and strategy is to build an understanding and playing a more proactive leadership role in national consciousness around the security developing policy, setting security standards challenges we face as a nation. Furthermore, and monitoring for compliance. the strategy will provide a long-term framework for managing the security threats Last year we undertook to develop a facing our country. framework for the establishment of the Border Management Agency (BMA), this was Editor: Dalene Duvenage

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Some of the priorities for the year will be as follows: * We will be contributing to the realisation of the outcome of ensuring that "all people in South Africa are safe and feel safe". * Government has declared war on crime and has set an objective to reduce crime levels in the country, particularly those which are violent in nature. In this regard, we will introduce in our intelligence analysis the scoping of the extent and impact of syndicated violent crimes and annual assessment of strategic crime trends in the national intelligence estimate. * We will establish operations against domestic and trans-national crime syndicates. We will employ all the capacities at our disposal including liaison with other foreign intelligence services to share information. This has proved to be useful because it builds up into joint operations with neighbouring and fraternal countries. We will provide actionable intelligence to assist in the prosecutions or disruption of activities of the syndicates.

In this financial year, we will also develop a comprehensive counter terrorism strategy, which will guide our counter terrorism operations.

We have begun the preparatory work within Security cluster working together with the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Independent Electoral Commission to provide security assessments, the setting up of systems and to ensure that 2011 local government elections are held in a peaceful atmosphere.

The intelligence continues to monitor and assess the manifestation of xenophobia across the country, with the aim of averting the possibility of violent outbreak against foreign nationals. Our assessment reveals an ongoing tension between local communities and foreign nationals in various hotspots across the country.

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We will assist, through joint operations and coordination, in the fight to root out fraud, theft and corruption within the cluster and government in general. We are going to increase our counter-intelligence capacity in order to assist government in the fight against corruption. We shall conduct regular screening to those entrusted with state resources. We shall extend our vetting programmes to provincial and local government sphere.

We will increase our presence in the continent and prioritise the conflict areas and work to stabilise these, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan, Madagascar, Somalia and Zimbabwe.

We will continue to lead the work on the conceptualisation and establishment of the SADC Early Warning Centre in Gaborone, Botswana with the objective that the centre is fully operational by the end of the year.

Illicit mining has emerged as a multi-faceted national security threat, costing the economy billions of Rand in revenue. Amongst others, illicit mining is taking place in the gold, platinum and diamond sectors. For example; the gold sector alone loses an estimated R5.7 billion in annual revenue through these trans-national organised crime syndicates. As government, we are determined to address this threat to our economy and our communities. We appointed an inter-departmental team, involving the State Security Agency, South African Police Service (SAPS) Crime Intelligence, National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Special Investigations Unit, Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation, Department of Mineral Resources and Department of Home Affairs to effectively deal with illicit mining and related activities. We are happy to report that this collaboration is yielding positive results. http://www.pmg.org.za/briefing/20100505state-security-ministers-budget-speech

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Oceania Strengthening Australia’s national security capacity Joint Media Release 11 May 2010 (Ed: Excerpted)

operations set up to facilitate people The Rudd Government will invest over smuggling in the region; and $500 million to further strengthen Australia’s national security capacity.

• $1.8m in additional funding to This $500 million investment is a key enhance the Australian Secret part of the first ever coordinated Intelligence Service’s intelligence national security budget which invests gathering capability, in addition to a total of $4.3 billion in national $8.3 million already in the forward security, border protection, aviation Prime Minister Rudd estimates. security and supporting the Australian The Rudd Government will counter Defence Force. terrorism and violent extremism by The Rudd Government will strengthen investing: Australia’s identity security by investing: • $9.1 million to establish a Counter •

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$100.8 million in additional funding over six years for a new passport issuing system, which will enhance the security of Australia’s passports; $23.6 million in ongoing funding to prevent identity theft through the Government Document Verification Scheme; and

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$5.9 million in ongoing funding to detect identity fraud through Australia’s Fraudulent Travel Document Detection System.

The Rudd Government will strengthen Australia’s intelligence gathering and information integrity by investing: •

$101.6 million in ongoing funding for telecommunications interception work conducted by national security and law enforcement agencies;

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$24 million in additional funding for new analytical technologies to improve the real time ability of the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) to target serious and organised crime, tax evasion and financial fraud;

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$14.5 million in additional funding to establish a Criminal Intelligence Fusion Centre within the Australian Crime Commission, to better detect and prevent organised crime, including

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Terrorism Control Centre. This funding will be absorbed within the AttorneyGeneral’s portfolio; and •

$9.7 million in additional funding to counter violent extremism and the threat of home grown terrorism in the Australian community.

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National Security Infrastructure and Capacity Building The Rudd Government will boost national security infrastructure and capacity building by investing: •

$23.5 million in additional funding to deliver on the Government’s commitment to provide 500 new Australian Federal Police officers, in addition to $191.9 million provided in the 2008-09 Budget;

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$35.5 million to upgrade the Cocos (Keeling) Islands runway;

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$21.3 million additional funding for security upgrades at Parliament House; and

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$1.7 million in 2010-11 to continue the National Emergency Call Centre Surge Capacity.

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The Government is also providing funding of over $118 million to promote security initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region, including:

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$21.2 million ongoing funding for counter-terrorism liaison and capacity building in the Asia-Pacific region.

These measures form part of the • $80.5 million additional funding for Government’s commitment to building a the AFP’s Police Development more secure Australia through supporting our Program in Timor-Leste, Tonga and security, intelligence and law enforcement Vanuatu; agencies as well as promoting an international environment that is stable, • $16.8 million additional funding to peaceful and prosperous. support the Australian Federal Police The measures announced in this Budget build commitment to the United Nations on the $685 million national security package Mission in Timor-Leste; and in the 2009 Budget. http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/www/ministers/mcclelland.nsf/Page/MediaReleases_2010_Se condQuarter_11May2010-StrengtheningAustraliasNationalSecurityCapacity

Australia: New phone tap powers planned for spy review May 13, 2010

AUSTRALIA'S intelligence agencies may win far greater flexibility to use surveillance tools at home under an independent inquiry ordered by the Rudd government.

A new intelligence review confirmed in the federal budget is expected to examine strict limits on how agencies set up to protect against foreign threats can operate in Australia. The $3 million review is due to be completed by the end of next year.

Last month, intelligence sources told the Herald that a secret intelligence review driven by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet was preparing to recommend defence intelligence be given powers to tap phones within Australia.

Also, officers from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the overseas spy agency, would be given significantly increased freedom to carry weapons and engage in ''paramilitary activities'' abroad.

At the time, a spokesman for the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, denied the existence of any such review. Yesterday his spokesman insisted the denial had been ''absolutely accurate'' and refused to discuss what the independent review might examine.

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''Planning for the 2011 review is at an early stage, but the intention is for an independent, comprehensive and in-depth examination of the work of the intelligence community," the spokesman said.

Terms of reference for the review have not been announced, but according to the Prime Minister's spokesman, will be made public at a later stage.

There are concerns within the intelligence community that Cold Warstyle limits on which agencies can use their resources in Australia are cramping the fight against terrorist and criminal threats.

A national security expert and former adviser to the Rudd government, Ross Babbage, recently told an Australian intelligence conference that ''there is an urgent need to restructure Australia's stove-piped and overrigid intelligence structures''.

Professor Babbage argues that Australia's intelligence agencies were set up to fight either international threats or domestic threats, but rarely both.

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intelligence targets, whether they be agencies, usually to gather information on a international, domestic or both''. person in Australia who was known to have had suspicious contact with people outside it.

For example, the act under which the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) operates The changes would likely require new civil prevents it carrying out domestic surveillance liberties safeguards. The inquiry is also likely in most circumstances. to consider whether agencies should be amalgamated into a few larger agencies, or It is believed the intelligence community perhaps even a single giant intelligence wants flexibility to more easily form ''teams'' bureau, although sources consider that drawn from numerous agencies to fight unlikely. specific threats. DSD would employ its wiretapping capability at the request of other http://www.smh.com.au/national/new-phone-tap-powers-planned-for-spy-review-20100512uy9j.html

Australia: ASIS to write history May 8, 2010

THIS book will never sit on the shelf next to Ian Fleming or John le Carre, or even trouble the bestseller lists - though the contents will undoubtedly rank as a great thriller.

Australia's overseas spy agency - the Australian Secret Intelligence Service - has commissioned a history of its operations.

But only a chosen few will have a chance to snare a copy and read this intriguing story. ASIS did not officially exist until the late 1970s, and the clandestine work of the service remains jealously protected.

teaching tool for the service's new recruits and old hands to learn from the past.

A heavily sanitised version may be considered for public release, but a final decision won't be taken until the classified history is completed.

ASIS is believed to have sought out prominent military historian Peter Edwards for advice on how to best go about the project. Professor Edwards - the official historian of the Vietnam War for the Australian War Memorial - declined to comment when contacted yesterday by The

Nearing its 60th birthday, the nation's ASIS DG Nick Warner Age. spooks have decided to put their story But it is believed Professor Edwards on the record. Well, so-to-speak. provided initial expert advice, with the history now to be written in-house.

The Age believes the history will delve into all the service's dirty laundry, starting with ASIS posts its officers in embassies around the recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to world to collect secrets for the Australian battles with people smugglers closer to government. home, and stretching all the way back to the With headquarters in the Department of Cold War. Foreign Affairs and Trade building in Taxpayers won't get a peek between the Canberra, the spy outfit reports to Foreign covers, despite shelling out $300 million in Minister Stephen Smith. funding to the organisation each year. The Asked about the ASIS history, a foreign affairs history will be stamped at the highest spokesman said ''the Australian government classification level, intended only as a does not comment on intelligence matters''.

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New Zealand: Changes to intelligence agencies governance announced NZPA May 12, 2010

The Government today announced changes to how intelligence agencies are governed.

The decisions came out of a review carried out by former secretary of foreign affairs™, Simon Murdoch, a review publicised last year when it was revealed in a notebook found by a Radio New Zealand reporter.

Prime Minister John Key is Minister in Charge of the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) and Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).

The Government would have more oversight of what the agencies did.

"The central agencies Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC), Treasury and State Services Commission will now have greater oversight of the intelligence agencies covering performance, the setting of priorities and resource

"These changes are designed to ensure the agencies keep pace with changes in the security environment, so we can better meet the security challenges we face."

One News obtained a summary of the review, with information about relationships with other countries and capability of agencies removed. The review said intelligence agencies had focussed on international events and information, supported offshore commitments and had close links with foreign powers.

Mr Key told One News the focus would be more domestic.

"This is important to New Zealanders... and I think you've got to have that balance right between your international and your domestic obligations."

Green MP Keith Locke said

allocation," Mr Key said.

Prime Minister John Key. he welcomed more oversight but questioned how effective it would be.

"However, as happens now, the central Pic: NZPA agencies will not have any role in relation to "I am a bit sceptical that just adding another the actual operations of the intelligence bureaucratic layer in the Prime Minister's agencies. The intelligence agencies will Department is not the solution," he told remain under the oversight of the InspectorNZPA. General of Intelligence & Security and the "What we need is more public accountability, Commissioner of Security Warrants." particularly to Parliament about what our He also announced that the director of intelligence services are doing and their DPMC's National Assessments Bureau priorities. At the moment... we don't even (previously the External Assessments Bureau) know what the Waihopai satellite would be responsible for a national communications interception station costs." assessments programme that included He remained concerned about accountability. domestic and external intelligence sources.

"The intelligence services are still going to be "The director will also establish quality able to protect all their operational standards across the intelligence agencies for information, which may continue the the assessment and analysis of intelligence. problem of their coordination and priority The New Zealand intelligence community has setting mainly being driven by overseas -expanded in scope and functions over the particularly by American intelligence agencies past decade as a result of changes in the rather than by the government or parliament security environment. or people of New Zealand."

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Mr Locke questioned whether the National writing reports about international affairs Assessments Bureau would mean the would duplicate the work of the SIS and "boffins" who previously spent their time police. http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/changes-intelligence-agencies-governance-announced-122932

Fiji to set up National Intelligence Agency Tuesday, May 04, 2010 Indian Weekender news desk/ PBO/ Pacnews People need to be rest assured that this is not Moves are underway for the formation of the a spy agency and no privacy of individuals will National Intelligence Agency in Fiji. The be affected." functions of this agency will be similar to the disbanded Fiji Intelligence Fiji had a similar body established by Services. Minister for Defence Ratu the Rabuka government in the early Epeli Ganilau said yesterday they were 1990s which was called the Fiji sorting out details for the Intelligence Services. The agency was establishment of a national spy headed by Colonel Metuisela Mua and agency. He said such an agency was was later disbanded by the Labour-led vital for the protection of the Mahendra Chaudhry government in country’s borders. “We are still sorting 1999. Ratu Epeli said this new agency out all the details involved in the was different. "Totally different for this Minister for establishment of that unit,” Ratu Epeli Defence Ganilau one will just strengthen the assessment said. “We have nothing yet to confirm and national security capability and cobut the fact that we are still talking through ordination of the Ministry of Defence as the the details,” he said. A week later he stated ministry responsible to the national security that the proposed National Intelligence and defence priority of Government as a Agency is not a spy organisation. He said that whole," he said. espionage is spying and we are not spies. http://www.indianweekender.co.nz/Pages/ArticleDetails/14/1082/Fiji/Fiji-to-set-up-NationalIntelligence-Agency and http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=146279

Asia North Korea: Tasks of the General Bureau of Reconnaissance 7 May 2010

The Chosun Ilbo reported today that South Korean intelligence authorities have collected three types of evidence which they conclude back the idea that North Korea’s General Bureau of Reconnaissance organized the sinking of the Cheonan.

Based on intelligence assessments, these same authorities actually presumed back at the time of the Cheonan incident in late March that it was likely to have been led by the newly formed General Bureau.

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In February of last year, when Kim Jong Il reinforced the National Defense Commission, he moved Oh Keuk Ryul, the general manager of all affairs connected to South Korea, to vice-chairman and established the General Bureau of Reconnaissance under Oh’s command. Major General Kim Young Cheol was made director of the General Bureau under Oh. The reason why North Korea adds the word “General” to department names is because a

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so-named department covers all duties in the relevant sector, regardless of whether or not the activity in question is technically the work of Party, military or Cabinet. For instance, when the Escort Bureau in charge of guarding Kim Jong Il was expanded and reformed to become the General Escort Bureau in 1976, every piece of escort work the Party, military or any other organization engaged in became the General Bureau’s obligation.

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equipment to parts of Asia for illegal operations.

The former No. 35 Office was responsible for overseas operations. It was the base of Kim Hyun Hee, who was responsible for the KAL Flight 858 terror attack of 1987.

This reorganization of the system therefore implies a directional change in Kim’s strategy towards South Korea, and it is a shift to a more aggressive stance.

Combining the Reconnaissance Bureau of the People’s Army with the Operations Department and the No. 35 Office of the Central

result of a merger between the The sinking of a South Korean Committee unifies spy operations, former Reconnaissance Bureau, naval ship intensified tension undercover and direct military the Operations Department, of attacks in one office. with N Korea which Oh was formerly in charge, The North’s most recent and the No. 35 Office, which previously provocations, such as its attempt to carried out overseas spy and international assassinate Hwang Jang Yop and the Cheonan terrorist operations. incident, are likely the result of this new The former Reconnaissance Bureau of the strategy against South Korea, the People’s Army was a professional team manifestation of which can be seen in the charged with military provocations. It was appearance and rising importance of the responsible for several attacks along South General Bureau of Reconnaissance.

Korea’s east coast at Uljin and Samcheok in In the past, the reconnaissance tasks of Party 1968, not to mention the attempted and military were divided, but now all assassination of Park Chung Hee in Seoul intelligence and undercover tasks vis a vis during the same year.

South Korea are the work of the General The former Operations Department assisted Bureau. Hereafter, we should assume that spies infiltrating South Korea or Japan and the ways and means of military provocation delivered missiles or other military will increase. http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02900&num=6341

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The government of India has officially barred a number of Chinese telephone equipment providers from operating in India, citing their strong links with the Chinese military. At the center of the move is Huawei

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Technologies, one of China’s largest telephone equipment manufacturers. Several intelligence insiders see the company, based in Shenzen, China, as a covert arm of the intelligence wing of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. The company, which has business concerns in several countries around the world, has attracted the attention of

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with Indian representatives from the Office of American, British and Australian counterintelligence agencies, among others. the Prime Minister, the National Security In early 2008, the US government prohibited Council, and the Home Affairs and Huawei’s purchase of a significant amount of Communications ministries, in an effort to shares in US network security equipment dispel India’s security concerns. A Chinese maker 3Com, which supplies government delegation is also on its way to telecommunications hardware to the US New Delhi. Chinese government sources are Department of Defense. Back then, indirectly accusing India of “trade representatives from Huawei described the protectionism” and are threatening that the American government’s security fears as move may trigger a major trade war between “ludicrous and inaccurate”. Company officials India and China. will reportedly be meeting later this week http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/02-315/ http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/china/article7121521.ece

North America Canadian CSIS investigates more than 200 for terrorist links CTV.ca News Staff May. 11 2010 working with Canadian troops in Afghanistan Canada's spy agency is investigating more since 2002. Its role has recently come under than 200 Canadians for possible terrorist greater scrutiny, as MPs raise concerns over links, CSIS director Richard Fadden told MPs how detainees are transferred to local Afghan on Tuesday. authorities.

"They are usually second- or third-generation Fadden told the committee on Tuesday that Canadians who are in some ways relatively CSIS agents routinely question Taliban well-integrated into Canada, economically insurgents. "We try and talk to and socially," he said. Fadden said people in Afghanistan who would some Canadians are playing senior have some intelligence, some roles in global terrorist organizations information about threats to both overseas. "I'm not suggesting they Canada and to our allies," he said. are the equivalent of Osama bin "By definition those people are Laden, but they have acquired either terrorists themselves -positions of influence and they're Taliban insurgents -- or leadership," he said.He spoke to the CSIS Director Richard they're people who know House of Commons public safety Fadden something about them." committee, defending how the agency has interrogated Afghan detainees to gather Fadden also said that CSIS agents "frequently" information. Fadden said interrogating people questioned detainees before they were who are determined to harm Canadians has transferred, in the early years of the war. saved lives.

"In most cases, these interviews lasted less Gary Filmon, chairman of the Security than 15 or 20 minutes. They were then Intelligence Review Committee, says he will transferred at the call of the Canadian Forces, look into how CSIS gathers information from or not, to the Afghan authorities," he said.

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US: Kit Bond: Obama Has Made Us Less Safe 10 May 2010 Ronald Kessler

By imposing a risk-averse atmosphere on the “You Mirandize only if you want to use intelligence community, President Barack statements made by the suspect at his trial,” Obama’s policies have made the country less Bond says. “But who thinks you need any safe, Sen. Kit Bond, the vice chairman of the statements from Abdulmutallab or Shahzad Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, tells to convict them if you have to take them into Newsmax. court?”

The Missouri Republican cites Attorney On Sunday, Holder said the administration is General Eric Holder’s decision to considering possible legislation to revisit whether former CIA officers expand the “public safety exception” should be prosecuted for engaging that allows a delay in issuing a in enhanced interrogation Miranda warning. techniques that were approved by Beyond the Miranda issue, Bond says President Bush, the Justice he worries that if terrorists are tried Department, and key members of in a civilian rather than a military court, Senator Bond Congress. defense lawyers will obtain intelligence Bond also cites Miranda warnings given to that has in the past “significantly crimped our suspects who are not American citizens and ability to carry out our intel missions abroad.” therefore are not entitled to rights granted by Meanwhile, as noted in the Newsmax article the Constitution.

"NY Bomb Plot Reveals Evolution of “What I have been very concerned about is Terrorism," Bond says Democrats on his own that we have demoralized the intelligence committee have been investigating the CIA’s community,” Bond says. “We have put it use of enhanced interrogation, using up under the control of the Department of valuable CIA resources and manpower and Justice, and the people of the Department of further intimidating the intelligence Justice are reflecting more of the ACLU’s community. views and the views of many of the people So far, the investigation has who have been hired there and who obtained 10 million CIA represented the detainees.” documents, Bond confirms. That As a result, members of the effort “takes people away from intelligence community wonder uncovering threats,” Bond says. whether the government has their Yet Holder is playing “political back or whether they will be games with national security” by “stabbed in the back” if they take risks Times Square bomber telling the intelligence community to obtain intelligence to stop plots, Faisal Shahzad “to skirt the national security Bond says. law” and give Congress details on national “I think we are far less safe when we have put security issues and developments only when them in a non-risk mode and instituted a Holder gives the go-ahead, Bond says. practice of Mirandizing terrorists who come Besides threats from terrorist bombers, the in,” Bond says. “They gave Miranda rights to country faces thousands of cyber attacks per Umar Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day day from government and private interests, bomber, and he quit talking for five weeks.”

Bond notes.

While Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square “If they were able to get into the Department bomber, is a U.S. citizen, he could have been of Transportation or FAA system and knock classified as an enemy combatant and given down the air traffic control with 28,000 his rights, Bond says.

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commercial airliners in the sky, you could Bond is drafting legislation to create the have a super disaster,” Bond says. “Or they position of national cyber director. The could take down one Wall Street trading director would command federal agencies house with connections all over and put us charged with combating the cyber threat and into chaos.” coordinate defensive efforts by both the government and private sectors.

Without confirming it, Bond cites an MSNBC “As [CIA Director] Leon Panetta said, a cyber report that a cyber attack from abroad attack from a hostile state or a very compromised the U.S. power system, sophisticated terrorist could be America’s potentially jeopardizing the electric grid and next Pearl Harbor,” Bond warns. crippling the country. http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/president-barack-obama-kitt/2010/05/10/id/358531

Middle East Dubai Assassination fall-out continues: 1) Britain refuses to accept a Mossad replacement THE GUARDIAN, Friday, May 07, 2010

Britain has refused to allow Israel’s Mossad secret service to send a representative back to the country’s London embassy following the row over the killing of a member of Hamas by agents using forged UK passports.

Israel’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported on Tuesday that the UK Foreign Office was digging in its heels because Israel was refusing to commit itself not to misuse British passports in future clandestine operations.

was described as a key figure in smuggling Iranian weapons into the Gaza Strip on behalf of the Palestinian Islamist movement. It has abstained from signing any material that might be construed as a confession. Britain had made clear in public statements and private meetings with the Israelis that it expected formal guarantees that there would be no repeat of the passport cloning. The real documents belonged to Britons living in Israel.

Neither Britain nor Israel gave any details of the embassy official who was ordered to leave the country in March after an investigation by the UK Serious Organized Crime Agency showed that Mossad was behind the passport theft, but the official was understood to be an intelligence officer who worked as official liaison with Britain’s intelligence service, MI6. Israel has never admitted any role in February’s Dubai assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who

Forged or stolen Irish, Australian, French and German passports were also used by the hit squad, whose operation — including the use of elaborate disguises — was extensively recorded by closed-circuit TV cameras in the emirate. Israel conspicuously refrained from retaliating for the expulsion, apparently accepting that it was no more than a slap on the wrist before a return to business as usual. www.taipeitimes.com/News/world?pubdate= 2010-05-07

2) South Africa: Mo Shaik on Mossad agents

May 07 2010, Carien Du Plessis

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South African law, says Shaik, because they passed through the transit lounge from Dubai without entering the country.

He said the two were travelling on false British passports and SA security agents were aware of their presence. Shaik said their passport numbers were passed on to Britain, whose passport laws were contravened, and the Netherlands, where they travelled on to from Johannesburg.

State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele said the secret service had instructed the National Intelligence Agency, the country's domestic counter-intelligence outfit, to deal with the matter.

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the airport," he said. Cwele said police, intelligence, customs and Home Affairs did not co-ordinate their operations at the airport. "We want to promote the movement of people, but at the same time stop the movement of illegal actions," he said.

State Security Director-General Jeff Maqetuka said the secret service was in touch with officials in Dubai about the matter, but reiterated that South Africa did not favour any foreign agency.

Al-Mabhouh, who was wanted by the Israeli, Egyptian and Jordanian governments, was killed in the five-star Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai on January 20. The Mossad agents travelled through the airport a day after the assassination. News of their transit has sparked fears of inadequate security at OR Tambo airport on the eve of the World Cup which kicks off next month.

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Kuwait: Media banned from reporting on alleged Iran spy ring May 6, 2010

A report by the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper last weekend claiming that the country's security services had dismantled a spy cell allegedly working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard has sparked a ruckus in the Kuwaiti parliament, raised diplomatic tensions and triggered rampant speculation in the Persian Gulf media.

Now, in an attempt to calm the situation, Kuwait has banned any more media reporting on the alleged spy cell.

On Thursday, the Kuwaiti Englishlanguage newspaper Kuwait Times reported that Public Attorney Hamed Al-Othman had issued a decision forbidding any more publication of news on the issue.

The report, which has not been verified by officials, has created multiple political headaches for the Kuwaiti government.

Several Kuwaiti lawmakers, including Mohammad Hayef, a hard-line Islamist, called for the expulsion of the

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Iranian ambassador and pressed the government to speak out on the spy allegations.

Predictably, Iranians were outraged. The Iranian Embassy in Kuwait strongly denied the media report, and a high-ranking official dismissed the allegations as a "Zionist plot" to tarnish the image of the Revolutionary Guard.

"The claim about identification and discovery of a spy web in Kuwait is in line with the [enemy] project to spread IRGCphobia in the region," the Revolutionary Guard's public relations head, Gen. Ramezan Sharif, told the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars.

When Iran's ambassador to Kuwait, Ali Jannati, recently met with the Kuwaiti minister of state for Cabinet affairs, Abdul Aziz Al-Roudhan, he expressed regret over what he referred to as "Kuwait propaganda" on the issue, according to the Iranian Students News Agency. Jannati also called on the Kuwaiti government to adopt a clearer stance on the spy allegations against Iran.

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answer questions in connection with in the The Kuwaiti government for its part has been alleged cell. Both denied having any links with tight-lipped on the issue, only offering limited the purported network or the Revolutionary information and not naming Iran.

Guard, according to the Kuwait Times report.

"Security agencies investigate whatever According to Al-Qabas, Kuwaiti security information they receive, including what has services arrested at least seven suspects in been reported lately," government connection with the alleged spy network that spokesman Mohammed al-Baseeri said in a was keeping an eye American and Kuwaiti statement cited by the official Kuwaiti news agency KUNA. "The agencies are completing military bases. The daily said the network was their investigation and procedures in prelude made up of six Kuwaitis and two stateless to referring it to court," he added.

Arabs. Two Lebanese citizens living in Kuwait also played important roles in the The media ban comes as two stateless Arabs network, the report said. living in Kuwait reportedly were summoned Wednesday by the public prosecutor to http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/05/kuwait-media-ban-imposed-on-iranianspy-cell-allegations.html

Could Mossad be Responsible for an Unexpected Boost to the UAE Security Sector?

Dubai, United Arab Emirates : 10 May 2010

Business has been brisk, with some Whilst nothing has been proven, the installation companies reporting a 40% international finger of suspicion is firmly increase in business as hotels in the United pointed at Israel and in particular its secret Arab Emirates spend millions upgrading and service, Mossad who many, including the UK bolstering their security systems – in some and the Republic of Ireland, blame for the cases doubling the number of cameras, and killing. The UK and Ireland were particularly installing high resolution cameras to monitor sensitive in this instance, as it appears that key areas such as car parks, lobbies and passports belonging to its citizens were entrances. cloned in order to gain entry visas into the UAE. According to The Hotel Show sales director, Ray Tinston, the UAE and other Gulf countries The hit squad that killed Mr Mahmoud Alseem to be leading the way with investment Mabhouh was caught on a number of in “active security systems” such as access occasions by hotel CCTV, footage of which control and intrusion detection systems, was broadcast across the world by Dubai which not only the hotel industry, but the police. But the much publicised international police and government bodies are installing furore caused by the alleged Mossad hit squad has given the security industry an to maintain the UAEs superlative security expected boost. standards. http://news.gulfjobsmarket.com/could-mossad-be-responsible-for-an-unexpected-boost-to-theuae-security-sector-7861113-news

Tel Aviv and Ankara break secret pact 13 May 2010, Intelligence online

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deprives Israeli defence groups of one of their most faithful clients. http://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2010/05/13/tel-aviv-and-ankarabreak-secret-pact,83573755-EVE

Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of spying, contact with Hezbollah 10 May 2010, Haaretz (Ed: excerpted)

Unofficial sources say Makhoul was in contact with a number of foreign activists, some with links to groups classified by the government as terror organizations. Hussein Abu Hasin, a lawyer who has handled several cases of spying charges, told Haaretz that espionage laws in Israel were so wide-ranging that an internet chat or telephone conversation with anyone in an 'enemy state' could lead to prosecution.

The arrests have sparked outrage among Israeli Arab organizations and rights groups, who claim that activists disappear from their homes in the middle of the night. They also accuse the courts of being at the beck and call of security services, who often bar suspects from visits with lawyers or from obtaining legal counsel.

Late last week, Israeli Arab rights groups, including Adallah, a center that promotes rights for Arabs in Israel, petitioned a Petah Tikva court to lift the gag order in the case.

Adallah also plans to petition the High Court over the general matter of gag orders, in an effort to challenge the policy by which the orders are issued.

A mass rally is planned for Monday night in Haifa to protest the arrests of Said and Makhoul. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/two-israeli-arabs-arrested-on-suspicion-ofspying-contact-with-hezbollah-1.289462 Gag order lifted on news that Omar Said, a member of the Balad movement, and Amir Makhoul, director general of an Arab charity, were detained by the Shin Bet security service. Omar Said, a member of the Balad movement, and Ameer Makhoul, director general of the charity Ittijah (Union of Arab Community-Based Associations) were detained by the Shin Bet security service and police anti-terror squads.

Makhoul was arrested in the early hours of Thursday morning, Said on April 24. Reports of the arrests circulated widely on unofficial websites and blogs but government censors had banned the Israeli press from reporting them until the gag order was lifted late Sunday night. Sayid was detained and his house was also searched, police said. The activist, who also practices alternative medicine, has been questioned by police on several occasions over trips abroad in the past few years.

The veteran activist is well-known among Arab charities and NGOs and is a regular participant in conference on discrimination in Israel and abroad and has been a virulent critic of government policy.

Anti money laundering and terrorist financing 'Banks, intel services can pool data to disrupt Qaeda funds' 2010-05-07 Banks and intelligence services can pool information to deter and destroy Al Qaeda's sources of fund raising, says recent research.

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information held by the intelligence services, it can help banks see an indicator of potentially suspicious activities.

This is the conclusion drawn from a research conducted by Juan Miguel del Cid Gomez, professor of Finances and Accounting at the University of Granada, Spain.

The author found that Al Qaeda has been employing different mechanisms ever since its birth to raise funds from financial facilitators, charities and corporations.

At present, cells, branches or groups associated with Al Qaeda are forced to act independently and get funds by means of activities such as drug trafficking and other common crimes.

All these groups 'are forced to resort to hawala (moneylaundering) and to cash-couriers to move money on the fringes of the official financial system'.

Besides, there are other mechanisms that may be employed by terrorist groups to move their funds without being detected.

'That is the case of international trade. The complex payment methods of international trade and the volume of transactions render it specially vulnerable,' says Gomez.

'The online payment systems enabled by new information technologies and telecommunications is also a risk, since they may be used by terrorist groups to transfer money anonymously,' he adds.

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The researcher found that the measures established by the Security Council of the United Nations - based on asset freeze orders - failed to disrupt Al Qaeda's financing.

The reason is that reports of suspicious transactions by financial institutions around the world are of little value when it comes to freezing the assets of terrorist organisation.

The study provides a number of relevant data on the group's financing. Before the Sep 11 attacks, Al Qaeda's financial needs were approximately $30 million annually, according to a CIA's report, said a Granada release.

Some estimates indicate that the economic cost of this attack is $400,000 to $500,000.

Gomez says that terrorist groups need to meet both the cost of attacks, organisation maintenance and the funds required to spread their ideology.

Apart from buying the weapons, vehicles, explosives and detonators needed for the attack, terrorist groups have to meet other needs, as providing for the terrorists and their families, enabling communications between cell members and their leaders, training their members, travelling to prepare for the attacks, broadcasting propaganda on the media and promoting charity activities, which is a way for terrorist organisations to gain legitimacy. www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews103575.html

500 euro note withdrawn in Britain May 13, 2010 : LONDON The €500 note has been withdrawn from circulation in the UK following concerns that it is the denomination of choice for criminal gangs moving large sums of cash.

The move came after an eight-month study by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) found that 90 per cent of €500 notes in circulation are used by money launderers

attempting to legitimise the profits of criminal gangs. The physical attraction of the €500 note is clear: apparently, €20,000 can be hidden inside a cigarette packet. And while £1m in £50 notes weighs 22kg, the same amount in the now-withdrawn denomination weighs a mere 2.2kg.

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Canada: Tamil Tiger case puts spotlight on laws against financing terrorism Vancouver and Toronto — Globe and Mail May. 11, 2010 (Ed: excerpted)

Prapaharan Thambithurai (photo) plead guilty Tuesday morning to raising funds in B.C. for a banned terrorist organization.

His lawyer Richard Peck told the court Mr. Thambithurai collected funds for the Tamil people, believing the terrorist group would keep a certain percentage and pass on the rest of the money to the people.

Federal prosecutor Martha Devlin asked for a two year sentence, Mr. Peck countered with a request for a three-year suspended sentence.

Judgement was reserved and sentencing adjourned until Friday.

Mr. Thambithurai is the first person in Canada to be charged with raising funds for a banned terrorist organization.

He was charged in March, 2008, in Vancouver with soliciting funds for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a terrorist group officially banned in Canada in 2006.

When Mr. Thambithurai was charged two years ago, his lawyer, Richard Peck, said his client was actually raising funds for the World Tamil Movement, which was not banned in Canada. The WTM was a humanitarian organization that helped people in need in Sri Lanka, Mr. Peck said. However, the police alleged the WTM was a front for the Tamil Tigers.

The Sri Lanka government crushed the Tamil Tigers last year, ending a bloody fight for Tamil independence that claimed tens of thousands of lives over more than 30 years.

The outcome of the B.C. case is being keenly watched by Canada's law-enforcement community, whose efforts to curtail terrorist financing are considered lacklustre. Canada's financial-intelligence agency, FINTRAC, says that every year dozens of terrorist-financing cases come to light and millions of dollars may flow abroad. Yet Canada has never Editor: Dalene Duvenage

successfully prosecuted a standalone terrorism-finance case. If Mr. Thambithurai pleads guilty and receives a reduced sentence, the terrorism financing legislation could come under intense criticism.

A plea arrangement would expose a glaring weakness in the legislation, said John Thompson, president of the Mackenzie Institute, a Toronto-based think tank concentrating on terrorism, political extremism and organized crime.

“The legal standard to prove cases of international money laundering for terrorist organizations is very, very difficult to achieve,” Mr. Thompson said in an interview. “I can see where the Crown [prosecutor] would want to take the shortcut,” he said. University of Toronto associate professor Wesley Wark, a national security policy expert, said a plea bargain would indicate the legislation is working in the way it was intended.

Difficulty in obtaining a conviction was intended to push the prosecution and the accused to reach a compromise, he said. “You are not really interested in rounding up people who gave $100 to the Tamil Tigers.

What you are really interested in is access to wider knowledge about the terrorist groups, whether it is Tamil Tigers or others,” Prof.

Wark said.

The legislation was intended to help investigators find out more about terrorist groups, their activities and those involved in the schemes, he said. “The general feeling is that [prosecuting] terrorism financing is a way into the heart of terrorism plots and terrorism groups, Prof. Wark said.

There is one financing conviction on the books since the legislation was adopted in 2001, but that case did not involve a banned terrorist organization.

An al-Qaeda sympathizer in Ottawa was convicted in 2007

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of sending small sums of money to terrorists in the United Kingdom and Pakistan. But the meat of that case was about building bombs: Momin Khawaja was found guilty of building detonators.

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