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CE QUE L’ATTENTAT MANQUE CONTRE LE VOL 253 NOUS APPREND SUR LA SECURITE AERIENNE ET SUR AL-QAÏDA

Par Claude MONIQUET, Président de l'ESISC

La tentative d’attentat contre un avion de ligne américain, le 25 décembre, nous donne plusieurs leçons que nous devons assimiler si nous voulons que la lutte antiterroriste soit plus efficace. 

Premièrement : 8 ans après le 11 septembre, la sécurité aérienne reste très largement virtuelle et théorique. Des centaines de millions, si ce n’est des milliards, ont été dépensés dans la “sécurisation” des aéroports et des avions. Mais cet effort gigantesque n’a pas empêché Richard Reid (“Shoe Bomber”) de prendre un vol Paris-Miami en décembre 2001, avec une charge explosive cachée dans une de ses chaussures.

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WHAT THE FLIGHT 253 CASE TEACHES US ON AIR SECURITY AND AL-QAEDA

By Claude MONIQUET, President of ESISC

The attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner, on Friday, December 25 is teaching us various lessons we must learn if we want to be more effective in the fight against terrorism. 

First of all: 8 years after September 11, flight security remains largely virtual and theoretical. Hundreds of millions if not billions have been spent in securing airports and airplanes. But it didn’t prevent Richard Reid (“Shoe Bomber”) to enter a Paris-Miami flight in December 2001, with an explosive charge hidden in his shoe.

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04/02/2010

13:20
French

Colombia/Insurgency: Colombian Security Forces Kill 12 FARC Rebels

Sources within the Defence Ministry declared that at least 12 leftist guerrillas belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have been killed in an operation jointly conducted by the Colombian air force and national police near the southern town of Puerto Rico in the Caqueta province...
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12:58
French

India/Terrorism: three HUJI terrorists killed in encounter

In a fierce gun battle, Indian paramilitary troops gunned down three Harkat-ul-Jehadi (HUJI) terrorists in in Kistwar district in Indian-administered Kashmir early on Thursday...
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12:32
French

Yemen/United States/Terrorism: radical Imam Al-Aulaqi claims Umar Farouk was his disciple

In an interview aired on Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, the radical imam Anwar al-Yemeni Aulaqi stated that Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was his disciple...
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12:08
French

Rwanda/Insurgency: mob attacks Rwandan opposition leader in Kigali

At least five men accused of attacking Victoire Ingabire, a potential Rwandan presidential candidate, have been arrested on Wednesday...
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11:50
French

Nigeria/Insurgency: pipeline attacked in Rivers State

On Thursday, the Niger Delta Re-Enforcement Team, a previously unknown militant group, claimed to have attacked a pipeline in Rivers State...
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10:50
French

Russia/Terrorism: Al-Qaeda leader killed in Dagestan

Sources within Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) stated that a prominent Al-Qaeda leader and one accomplice have been gunned down by Russian security forces in a clash in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan...
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10:15
French

Pakistan/United States/Terrorism: US Intelligence official says Mehsud is dead

A senior US intelligence official stated on Wednesday that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a missile attack last month...
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03/02/2010

18:45
French

Somalia/Piracy: Pirates hijack North Korean Cargo Ship

The European Union's anti-piracy force (EU NAVFOR) stated on Wednesday that a North Korean cargo ship had been hijacked by Somali pirates off the Yemeni coasts and north of the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC)... 
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18:34
French

Nigeria/Insurgency: Defense minister defends amnesty process

Nigerian defence minister Godwin Abbe held on Wednesday media briefing on the amnesty programme initiated with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) rebels President Umaru Yar’Adua...
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17:47
French

Egypt/Terrorism: armed Bedouin attack prisoner convoy on Sinai Peninsula,two policemen killed

According to Egyptian security sources, two policemen were killed near the northern city of Beir Al Abd on the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday...
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17:36
French

Israel/Palestinian Authority/Security: Israeli fighters bomb tunnels used by terrorists

According to Palestinian security and medical sources, several smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip were bombed by Israeli fighter planes on Tuesday...
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16:38
French

Sri Lanka/Civil unrest: 37 arrested over plot to assassinate president

Sri Lankan state media reported on Wednesday that 37 people, mainly army officials, have been arrested for allegedly being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President Mahinda Rajapaksa...
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16:03
French

Yemen/Security: security forces kill several Shiite Zaidi rebel leaders

At least 20 Shiite Zaidi rebels, including several key leaders, have been killed in separate clashes with government troops in de Saada governorate, a Defence Ministry's online newspaper reported on Wednesday...
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14:52
French

Afghanistan/Terrorism: bomb attack kills two American soldiers

NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stated on Wednesday that two US soldiers have been killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of foreign troops in the country to over 50 for 2010 so far...
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14:32
French

Mexico/Organised crime: seven suspects and one policeman killed in shootout

At least seven suspected drug traffickers and one federal police officer were killed in a gun battle in the northern Mexican city of Torreon, Mexican authorities said...
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13:51
French

Germany/Terrorism: large scale police action against Jihadist network

German police raided 43 houses throughout the country on Wednesday, most notably in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, following an investigation that had begun in August 2008...
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12:58
French

Russia/Insurgency: railway station in Ingushetia comes under fire, no casualties

Citing a police official RIA Novosti news agency reported that unknown assailants lobbed grenades into a railway station in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia late on Tuesday, damaging the building...
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12:25
French

Iran/Security: Tehran successfully launches satellite rocket

Iranian media reported that Tehran successfully test-fired a domestically made satellite-carrier rocket on Wednesday...
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11:22
French

Iraq/Terrorism: motorbike bomber kills 20 Shiite pilgrims in Karbala

At least 20 Shiite pilgrims have been killed and 110 others wounded when a bomb, planted on a cart pulled by a motorcycle, exploded early Wednesday in the outskirts of Iraq’s holy city of Karbala, officials said...
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10:29
French

Pakistan/Terrorism: school bombing kills 8, including foreigners, in Lower Dir

At least eight people, including four foreign aid workers, were killed in a bomb blast near a school in Pakistan's North-Western Frontier Province’s Lower Dir district on Wednesday, officials said...
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