Intelligence Review 

*Malena Rembe, Chief analyst, counter-terrorism, Swedish Security Service
As Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto and past history were uncovered, it became clear that Nordic security services lacked the systems to detect this kind...
14-Dec-2011
*Toomas Hendrik Ilves - President of Estonia
Estonia boasts a much stronger economy than many in the region, and is also one of the most advanced in terms of information technology. ...
07-Dec-2011
*Igor LukÜic, Prime Minister of Montenegro
With the EU potentially less willing to accept new member states in a time of economic turmoil, the EU enlargement process could be stalled. ...
31-Oct-2011
*Radha Vinod Raju, former director-general of India's National Investigation Agency
A 7 September explosion outside New Delhi's High Court killed at least 13 people, spotlighting India's counter-terrorism infrastructure. It was India's eighth urban bombing ...
14-Oct-2011
*Uneasy neighbours - Ali Ahmed Karti, Sudanese foreign minister
Following the declaration of South Sudan's independence on 9 July, many issues remain to be resolved with Sudan, which only reluctantly agreed to its ...
19-Aug-2011
*Delta blues - Vice-Admiral Ola Sa'ad Ibrahim
The Nigerian government announced in late June that the Niger Delta militant amnesty programme, first established in 2009, was to be closed to new ...
21-Jul-2011
*Faithful to the core - Dr Ali Soltanieh, Iran's IAEA ambassador
The release of a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in May, which suggested that Iran was continuing to work towards a...
23-Jun-2011
*Hunting man - Michael Rogers, intelligence committee chair
The US operation that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on 2 May represented the culmination of 10 years' work by ...
26-May-2011
*Mexican stand-off - Eduardo Medina-Mora, Mexican diplomat
Eduardo Medina-Mora, Mexico's ambassador to the UK, was previously in the front line of Mexico's battle against the country's drug cartels, serving as attorney ...
28-Apr-2011
*Study in insurgency - Khin Kyaw, ABSDF head of military planning
Myanmar's first multi-party elections in November 2010 brought little real change to the political landscape, with the military junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party ...
13-Apr-2011
*Balkan extraction - Christopher Dell, US ambassador to Pristina
The US has long been a staunch advocate of Kosovo's independence from Serbia, from spearheading NATO's bombardment of Belgrade in 1999 to hands-on involvement ...
15-Mar-2011
*State solution - Nasser Al-Kidwa, former PLO delegate to UN
Like many other observers, Al-Kidwa believes the Palestinian-Israeli peace process has stalled. He told Jane's : "The political process is stuck. It has reached...
04-Feb-2011
*Civil service - G L Peiris, Sri Lankan minister of external affairs
Gamini Lakshman Peiris, Sri Lanka's minister of external affairs, is confident that the human rights situation in Sri Lanka meets international standards, following the ...
21-Dec-2010
*Standing firm - General Sir Richard Dannatt
Critics have argued the UK's new Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) marks the end of Britain's global ambitions. In particular, they maintain, the ...
19-Nov-2010
*Big freeze - Elmar Mammadyarov, Azerbaijani minister
Azerbaijan's 7 November parliamentary elections sprang little in the way of surprises. President Ilham Aliyev's ruling New Azerbaijan Party (Yeni Azerbaycan Partiyasi: YAP) won ...
12-Nov-2010
*Generation of '88, Kyaw Kyaw, NCUB director
The decision by Myanmar's ruling military junta to call the country's first general elections on 7 November, the first in 20 years, has received...
07-Oct-2010
*Struggling on - Khaled Mashal, political chief of Hamas
A fragile security has been restored to the West Bank, for the short term at least, owing to renewed co-operation between Israel and the ...
20-Aug-2010
Fighting addiction - Alexandre Schmidt, UNODC representative
In 2009, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced a dramatic decline in the trafficking of drugs through what it called 'low-resistance' ...
12-Aug-2010
*Keeping the peace - Nur Misuari, MNLF chairman
When Jane's met Nur Misuari in Manila in late March, he was on combative form. Although the 68-year-old man looked thin and weak, his...
01-Jul-2010
*A question of time - Maj Gen Nick Carter, commander of RC-South
According to Major-General Nick Carter, time is of the essence. Yet, it is not necessarily speed that is most on his mind, but patience. ...
14-May-2010
*Under pressure - General Ronald L Burgess, director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency
General Ronald Burgess, head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), warned on 14 April that Iran could produce enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) ...
23-Apr-2010
*Balancing act - Michiel Hofman, country representative for Médecins Sans Frontičres in Afghanistan
"When I talk to ISAF they tell me, 'Oh, we want to make sure you are not doing anything that benefits the Taliban.' When ...
13-Apr-2010
*Civil action - General Ben Dolorfino, WESTMINCOM
The killing of Albader Parad, a leader of the Philippine Islamist militant Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), in late February underlined the ongoing efforts of...
25-Feb-2010
*Poll position - Raymond Odierno, Commanding General, US Forces - Iraq
With Iraq's parliamentary elections due to be held on 7 March, General Raymond Odierno, commanding general, United States Forces - Iraq, told Jane's that...
02-Feb-2010
*Fragile web - John Michael McConnell, former US director of national intelligence
The failed attempt to bomb an aircraft bound for Detroit on 25 December 2009 has focused US and media attention on shortcomings within the United...
14-Jan-2010
Centre point - Alain Winants, administrator-general of the Belgian Security Service
Alain Winants, a former criminal lawyer who worked extensively on Belgian prosecutions of war crimes in Rwanda, is the outspoken administrator-general of the small ...
20-Nov-2009
*Outside intelligence - Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA
Six months after stepping down as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), retired US Air Force General Michael Hayden continues to focus on ...
21-Oct-2009
*Global focus - Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff
"I think the number one threat that we have right now is Al-Qaeda," claims Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs ...
01-Oct-2009
William Shapcott - director of EU SitCen
William Shapcott is director of the EU Joint Situation Centre, or SitCen, a low-profile but increasingly influential analysis and early warning unit that was ...
18-Aug-2009
*Closing time - Colonel Lawrence Morris, chief prosecutor
In January, incoming US President Barack Obama announced that the controversial Guantįnamo Bay detention facility would be closed by January 2010. Eight months later, ...
23-Jul-2009
Changing the guard - Fehmi Mujota, Minister for the Kosovo Security Force
As part of Kosovo's ongoing process of establishing independent institutions, the Trupat e Mbrojtjes sė Kosovės (Kosovo Protection Corps: KPC) was disbanded in January...
26-Jun-2009
*Meeting of minds - Mehmet Ali Talat, president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Thirty-five years of division do not make for an easy reconciliation process. However, Mehmet Ali Talat, president of the internationally unrecognised Turkish Republic of ...
21-May-2009
*Silver lining - Norberto Gonzales, Philippine national security adviser
"The era of armed struggle for achieving political change is over", Philippine National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales tells Jane's. Gonzales is referring mainly to ...
14-May-2009
Million mile patrol - Vice-Admiral William Gortney, commander of US forces Central Command
The US has been pushing for tougher measures to respond to attacks on shipping from pirates operating out of Somalia. Vice-Admiral William Gortney, commander ...
26-Mar-2009
Secret weapon - Tim Manhire, executive director of MAOC (Narcotics)
Europe's secret weapon in its war on cocaine trafficking is hidden in a discreet building near the Tagus River estuary in Lisbon - the ...
19-Feb-2009