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Saddam calls for war As JID has been warning for months, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been increasingly successful in re-positioning himself as the champion of the Arabs against the West and Israel. This week he addressed the Arab summit, held in Jordan's capital Amman, calling for Arab unity and a war to "liberate Palestine". Ominously, his audience of Arab leaders gave him a respectful hearing. JID analyses the speech and its worrying implications. 30/03/01  
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ARTICLES:After Saddam, who will take power in Iraq? Suffering Saddam? Secrecy in Colombia US military aid to Colombia may be on a large scale but the US government insists that it is not launching another Vietnam as American troops in the country are forbidden to engage in combat with the country's guerrillas. However, private American companies, paid for by the State and Defence Departments and staffed by ex-servicemen from the Special Forces and by pilots, suffer no such restrictions. 29/03/01 
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ARTICLES:FARC: finance comes full circle for bartering revolutionaries Profile: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Peacemaking and war-mongering in Colombia Boeing considers feasibility of plasma-based weapons The Phantom Works, Boeing's prototyping organisation, has raised the possibility of plasma-based directed-energy weapons equipping a future breed of hypersonic aircraft platforms, such as those favoured for research and development by the Bush administration. 28/03/01
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ARTICLES:Briefing: plasma power Flights of fancy take shape Airline Group chosen as NATS partner The announcement today that the UK government will hand over the running of the country's air traffic control (ATC) system to the workforce of National Air Traffic Services (NATS) and the Airline Group -- a consortium of eight UK airlines backed by British Telecommunications and several other European ATC organisations -- is significant because it is the first time any government will have largely relinquished control of ATC provision to a commercial concern. 27/03/01  RELATED
ARTICLES:Market Review: Air Traffic Control 2000-2001 RELATED CONFERENCE: ATC Asia Pacific 2001 "Capacity through Partnership" Radicals are the winners in Macedonian fighting The upsurge of ethnically motivated fighting in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has brought into the limelight the ethnic-Albanian organization calling itself the National Liberation Army (Ushtria Clirimtare Kombetare - UCK). Although sharing the same Albanian-language acronym as the better known Kosovo Liberation Army, now disbanded, the NLA appears to be an indigenous force, created in a matter of weeks since fighting started on the Macedonia-Kosovo border in late February. 26/03/01  RELATED
LINKS:Why Macedonia matters Kosovo Crisis archive March - June 1999 Will Macedonia be next? Jane's Sentinel Security Assessments: The Balkans Jane's Sentinel Risk Pointers- The Balkans - Macedonia RELATED CONFERENCE: Jane's Conferences: The Balkans: A European Security Challenge RELATED PRODUCTS: Balkans Reconstruction - Jane's Special Report The re-entry of Mir: swansong and swandive for man's first great outpost in space The final descent of the Mir complex from its orbit to a watery grave in the South Pacific marked not just the end for the world's first long-term outpost in space but also the end of the Soviet/Russian independent manned space programme. This comes as Russia prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space on 12 April. 23/03/01  MIR de-orbit simulation A 3D simulation of the MIR de-orbit. View the video here RELATED LINKS: US Department of State - Statement on Mir Space Station De-orbit
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combat trainer to fly in 2005Mako, the new light combat and advanced trainer aircraft programme, is set for its first flight in four years' time after officials from the UAE Air Force & Air Defence and EADS Military Aircraft completed technical project definitions shortly before IDEX 2001 opened. 19/03/01
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ARTICLES:Jane's IDEX Site Jane's IDEX 2001 site With the 5th International Defence Exhibition & Conference (IDEX 2001) taking place this month in Abu Dhabi from 18-22 March, the Jane's IDEX website is available at idex.janes.com. News and information from the IDEX Show Daily, organised and published by Jane's in English and Arabic, will appear on this site throughout the exhibition for all those wanting to catch up with events in Abu Dhabi during the show. 06/03/01 IDEX VIDEO LINK: 
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tank at IDEX 1999Questions in Budapest Since we began publishing in 1938, it has been Intelligence Digest's mission to investigate and bring to light important issues in security and intelligence. Many of our articles have attracted attention from the international media and from governments. Rarely, however, has one issue provoked national interest on the scale we have witnessed in Hungary this week. 09/03/01 The new Russian offensive Officially, the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union is history (although this week's arrest of a senior FBI official on charges of spying for both the USSR and, latterly, Russia raises some important questions). Even so, certain events of late have shed a disturbing light on the tactics and possible goals that the Kremlin under Vladimir Putin may be pursuing. JID's Central Europe analyst has carried out an exclusive investigation. 26/02/01
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ARTICLES:Sentinel Risk Pointers: Russia and the CIS - Russia Welcome to Budapest: the new mafia battleground Indian programmes under threat as corruption casualties mount Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes has resigned following allegations of widespread corruption in his ministry, a move that will adversely affect major military purchases. 16/03/01
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ARTICLES:India increases spending to replace old weapons India's biggest ever increase in defence spending India presents bigger budget Is Arafat the target? As the new Israeli government starts working this week, some generals will tell the cabinet, led by Ariel Sharon, that President Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority is more of an obstacle to peace and security than an asset. The generals will leave the cabinet to draw its own conclusions. 15/03/01
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ARTICLES:Will Sharon spring a surprise? Sharon sits in precarious seat Sentinel Risk Pointers: Eastern Mediterranean - Israel Bin Ladin's activities exposed in New York trial In February, US federal prosecutors opened their long-awaited terrorism case against four of Usama bin Ladin's alleged followers with a personal account by Jamal Ahmad al-Fadl, a Bin Ladin confidante turned FBI informant. 14/03/01 
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23 October 2000 the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked and
sank a Sri Lanka Navy operated passenger vessel in Trincomalee harbour.
A video of the operation, analysed by Jane's Intelligence Review,
reveals the use
of stealth technologies in LTTE boat design and the procurement
of weapons from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.07/03/01 VIDEO
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LTTE attackBoost in Beijing defence budget highlights need to track China's progress Beijing's significant defence spending increase further emphasises the overwhelming need to understand the thinking behind -- and the implications of -- the strategic developments and technological advances China is set to make over the coming years. The People's Republic of China's role and influence on the international stage is on course to increase with significant consequences for the region as well as for NATO and its allies. 08/03/01 RELATED CONFERENCE: Missile Proliferation 2001 RELATED ARTICLES: PRC defence spending continues to rise The effects of NMD on Chinese strategy The BBC attack - dissident Republicans' first successful car bomb on the UK mainland Senior security officials believe that the bomb attack on the BBC Television Centre in west London in the early hours of Sunday, 4 March, was the work of the dissident Irish Republican group the Real IRA (RIRA). If the theory is correct the incident is significant, for this would be the first successful car bomb attack to be carried out on the British 'mainland' by the group. 06/03/01 RELATED
ARTICLES:Real IRA in the frame for BBC bombing Semtex recovered in N Ireland Real IRA arms purchasing in Croatia indicates a change of tactics The Real IRA: after Omagh, what now? Is London bomb a prelude to RIRA blitz? Real IRA in the frame for BBC bombing The suggestion by UK police that the Real IRA was behind last weekend’s bombing outside BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane, Shepherd’s Bush, is consistent with recent Jane’s analysis on how the organisation’s ongoing campaign of violence would take shape. 05/03/01 RELATED
ARTICLES:Semtex recovered in N Ireland Real IRA arms purchasing in Croatia indicates a change of tactics The Real IRA: after Omagh, what now? Is London bomb a prelude to RIRA blitz? US DoD considers testing non-lethal energy weapon The US Department of Defense (DoD) is considering whether to begin field testing a millimetre-wave electromagnetic energy weapon designed to help US soldiers protect themselves and drive away adversaries when using lethal force is inappropriate. 05/03/01
RELATED ARTICLES: Infantry rifles unsuitable for many modern missions Market Review: Jane's Infantry Weapons 2001-2002 Erasing agents  As
new technology for the safe and environmentally-friendly destruction of
tens of thousands of stockpiled chemical weapons is being developed, major
funding challenges are threatening the timely progress of this critical
activity, writes Joris Janssen Lok. 01/03/01 
RELATED ARTICLES:Market Review: Jane's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence 2000-2001 RELATED PRODUCTS: Jane's Chem-Bio Web magazine site Jane's Catalogue: Chem-Bio Web Jane's Catalogue: Chembio Handbook The US agricultural sector: a new target for terrorism?  With
concern growing over the Foot and Mouth crisis in the UK, Peter Chalk examines
the potential for terrorists to disrupt economies and societies by introducing
pathogens into the food chain and livestock. This threat, posing serious
dangers to the security of the state, is only now being taken seriously
by government agencies.23/02/01 RELATED ARTICLES:Market Review: Jane's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence 2000-2001 RELATED PRODUCTS: Jane's Catalogue: Chem-Bio Web Aero India Exhibition Photo Gallery The third Aero India exhibition attracted around 150 exhibitors from 17 countries to Yelahanka Air Base near Bangalore between 7 and 11 February. Select from the drop-down menu below for images of the event provided by Jane's Defence Weekly's Craig Hoyle. 
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