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November 2008

  • 30 Nov 2008 - - Politico - Bill's rock star status may boost Hillary IISS Logo"The Clinton brand is a good one," said Dana Allin, an expert on trans-Atlantic affairs at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. "Her husband's administration is remembered fondly, maybe even more fondly in retrospect, after eight years of Bush." Nevertheless, he says, the change will set a positive mood. "We now have a centre-left (US) government doing left-left things, about which many Europeans will be a lot happier," Mr Allin says. “The Gulf countries will become in
  • 30 Nov 2008 - - Aviation Week - Greece Contemplates Upgrading Its Military Military Balance 2008 coverGreece's defense spending amounted to about 2.4% of the country's gross national product in 2006, the last year for which there are complete figures, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies' "Military Balance" assessment. That figure compares with about 1.7% for all European countries that belong to NATO.
  • 28 Nov 2008 - - New York Times - Russian Missile Plan Gives a New European Trade Hub an Old Identity Crisis Military Balance 2008 coverIn public, there has been little debate about the Iskander plan. For one thing, people here are accustomed to living near an arsenal -- including nuclear-tipped missiles that were staged here during the cold war. The bigger threat, for many, was their removal: Since the 1980s, the number of troops here has been reduced to fewer than 20,000, from 320,000, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Rumors that the Baltic Fleet might be relocated met with ''horror'' in Kalining
  • 28 Nov 2008 - - Associated Press - Britain: India attack had some al-Qaida hallmarks IISS Logo"Initially we saw violence in India imported from outside with allegations of Pakistani government support but now we are seeing new, homegrown groups," said Nigel Inkster, director of Transnational Threats at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "There is a possible link to al-Qaida," he said. "Logically it would be easier for al-Qaida to get things done in India than in the U.S. and Europe. Everyone's been expecting some type of pre-U.S. election or post-U.S. election spectacula
  • 28 Nov 2008 - - The Globe and Mail - Soft targets extremely vulnerable, experts say IISS LogoIndian security officials in Mumbai have been talking since the spring about the threat posed by what they described as sleeper cells, said Nigel Inkster, a former deputy director of the British Secret Intelligence Ser-vice. Nevertheless, "it would not surprise me if something like this came to happen without the security and intelli-gence community in India becoming aware of it," said Mr. Inkster, who is now director of transnational threats at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
  • 28 Nov 2008 - - Asian News International -- Global Spy Agencies Clueless About Deccan Mujahideen, Rule Out Qaeda Link IISS Logo"Initially we saw violence in India imported from outside - with allegations of Pakistani government support - but now we are seeing new, homegrown groups," CBS quoted Nigel Inkster, director of Transnational Threats at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, as saying.
  • 28 Nov 2008 - - Asian News International - For Terrorists, Targeting India is a Very Easy Proposition: Experts IISS LogoFormer senior British intelligence official Nigel Inkster, who is now director of transnational threats at Lon-don's International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: "A determined group of people are always going to be able to get through once, maybe twice. In the U.K. for example, in the 1990s, the security service had very good coverage of the Provisional IRA but that did not provide a guarantee against attacks on the U.K. mainland."
  • 28 Nov 2008 - - Independent - India's nightmare: were the killers home-grown? IISS LogoThe Mumbai attacks were claimed by a previously unknown group, the Deccan Mujahedin, which is calling for the release of jailed Islamic militants. "At first glance, it looks like an offshoot of the Indian Mujahedin which itself arose out of the student Islamic movement," said Nigel Inkster, a senior analyst with the Interna-tional Institute for Strategic Studies who is a former assistant director of MI6.
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