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INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

TO: All Strategic Intelligence Forum members

DATE: 1 March 2007

The Strategic Intelligence Forum is part of the Intelligence Research group, and as a member of the Strategic Intelligence Forum I am very pleased to send you from time to time a selection of reports published recently by Intelligence Research Ltd that I consider to be of particular STRATEGIC significance. Please find below my latest selection of Intelligence Research articles:

1. SOUTH ASIA: THE COSTS OF TERRORISM - AsiaInt Economic Intelligence Review, February 2007

SUMMARY: The bombing of a train connecting India to Pakistan has highlighted the persistent risk of terrorism in South Asia. The tendency of the regional security establishment to assess this risk in terms of relations between India and its neighbours provides a key by which local security arrangements can be understood; not in isolation but as part of an overlapping set of concerns involved with the rationalisation of states still only 60 years old...

Link to full article: http://www.asiaint.com/arl/arl13141.asp

2. COLOMBIA: MERGENCE OF NEW-GENERATION PARAMILITARY, Latin American Security & Strategic Review, February 2007

SUMMARY: While headlines in Colombia have been dominated since last November by the so-called 'parapolítica' scandal - the revelations about paramilitary penetration of the country's political and administrative establishment - a more menacing development has been taking place in the area of public security: the rearming of paramilitary groups and the appearance of new armed groups. These appear even more tightly connected to the drugs trade than the demobilised Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). Still unclear is the extent to which the former leaders of the AUC are involved in the 'rearming' - a misnomer, since it has always been clear that the AUC did not surrender all of its weaponry...

Link to full article: http://www.latinnews.com/lss/LSS13188.asp?instance=2

NOTE: Links to these - and other - reports can also be found in the Strategic Intelligence Monitoring Centre, which you may access on a 24/7 basis by going to www.stratintforum.com, logging in as a member, and selecting the Strategic Intelligence Monitoring Centre option.

With best regards

JKC de Courcy
Chairman
Strategic Intelligence Forum

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