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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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GAZA, LE GRAND MENSONGE  

Quand la démocratie capitule face à l’islamisme 

Par Claude MONIQUET 

La Boîte à Pandore

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2009

25/09/2009

16:43
French

Iran/Nuclear: Tehran announces building second uranium-enrichment facility

According to media reports on Friday, Iran has announced building a second uranium-enrichment facility. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...
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24/09/2009

10:08
French

United Nations/Iran/Security: Ahmadinejad's speech angers UN delegates

Delegates from the United Kingdom, the United States and France walked out in protest against a speech made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
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23/09/2009

16:04
French

Iran/Japan/Security: Tehran wants to cooperate with Tokyo against nuclear weapons

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Katsuya Okada, his Japanese counterpart, that Tehran wants to co-operate with Tokyo in working to abolish nuclear weapons...


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18/09/2009

11:30
French

Iran/Demonstration: government warns of pro-Palestinian rally

Tens of thousands supporters of Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi took to streets on Friday defying regime warnings and a heavy police presence...
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12:29
French

Iran/Security: Tehran will never stop nuclear program, says Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Thursday that his country will 'never' abandon its disputed nuclear program to appease Western critics...
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12:44
French

Iran/Demonstration: former president Mohammad Khatami assaulted during the al-Quds Day rally

The Iranian former president Mohammad Khatami has been attacked this Friday during the annual al-Quds Day rally in Tehran...
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13:43
French

Iran/Security: Ahmadinejad slams Holocaust as a false pretext for creating Israel

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday called the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis a "fairy tale" and urged Iranians that confronting the 'Zionist regime'...
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11/09/2009

16:05
French

Iran/Political unrest: Khamenei warns opposition of harsh response

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday warned the opposition that they would face a harsh response if they drew their "swords" against the Islamic Republic...
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18:25
French

The cases of Jacques Monsieur, the ANL Australia and the Arctic Sea: shedding some light on Tehran’s strategy of arms procurement 

By Claude MONIQUET, President of ESISC


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18:26
French

Les cas de Jacques Monsieur, de l’ANL Australia et de l’Arctic Sea : un éclairage sur la stratégie d’acquisition d’armes de Téhéran 

Par Claude MONIQUET, Président de l’ESISC


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08/09/2009

17:07
French

Iran/Political unrest: government should free some post-election detainees-MP

Farhad Tajari, a member of a parliamentary investigative committee said on Tuesday that the government should immediately release detainees...
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03/09/2009

00:25
French
Flash/UNITED STATES/IRAN/BELGIUM

A Belgian arms dealer connected to Iran arrested in New York

Jacques Monsieur – a well known Belgian arms dealer – was arrested last Friday in New York and is suspected to have tried to smuggle fighter jets engines to Iran...

 


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12:24
French

Iran/Political: opposition ally claims 72 died in post-election unrest

According to a report published by the Mosharekat website on Thursday, Alireza Hosseini Beheshti, an ally of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi...
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24/08/2009

13:07
French

Iran/Terrorism: 26 PJAK rebels killed in IRGC offensive

Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), declared killing 26 Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK)...
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19/08/2009

15:54
French

Israel/Iran/Security: diplomats blame IAEA for hiding evidence on Tehran's nuclear programme

The Haaretz newspaper, citing anonymous Western and Israeli diplomats, said Wednesday that the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...
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17/08/2009

12:58
French

France/Iran/Security: Tehran releases Clotilde Reiss after six weeks in jail on spy charges

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said in a statement on Sunday that Iran has freed on bail a French teaching assistant charged with spying...
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13/08/2009

14:10
French

Iran/Insurgency: 4 Jundallah rebels arrested

According to the ISNA news agency on Wednesday, Iran has arrested 4 members of the Sunni insurgent group Jundallah (Soldiers of God) in the capital...
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05/08/2009

10:11
French

Iran/Crisis: Protesters gather as Ahmadinejad is sworn in

As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in on Wednesday for a second term as Iran’s president, protesters gathered outside the Parliament in Tehran where the ceremony was being held...
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04/08/2009

12:36
French

Iran/United States/Security: 3 American tourists arrested for “illegal entry”

Iranian authorities confirmed on Tuesday that 3 American hikers who had crossed the border from Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday had been arrested and charged with "illegal entry”...
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29/07/2009

13:12
French

Iran/Political unrest: Tehran releases detained protesters

Around 140 people detained during a crackdown on protesters following last month's disputed presidential election have been released from Evin prison on Tuesday...
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