ALSO BY MARK HUBAND
The Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the 21st Century (joint editor)
Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths: Power Politics and Western Adventurism in the Arab World
The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War
Egypt, Regional Leader and Global Player: A Market for the 21st Century
Egypt Leading the Way: Institution Building and Stability in the Financial System
Warriors of the Prophet: The Struggle for Islam
The Liberian Civil War
For my brother Paul
TRADING
Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror
SECRETS
Mark Huband
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
ANC: African National Congress, the main South African anti-apartheid movement, today the countrys largest political party
ASU: Active Service Unit, the terrorist cells deployed by the IRA during both the 191921 War of Independence and the Troubles of the 1970s and 1980s
Chief: Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, the UKs foreign intelligence service
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency, the US foreign intelligence service
CIA CTC: Counter-Terrorism Center, the unit within the CIA focused on terrorism
CPSU: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CSRT: Combatant Status Review Tribunal, a legal process held for detainees at Guantanamo Bay
CTC: Counter-Terrorism Command, the UK police unit leading the domestic counter-terrorism effort, created in 2002
DG: Director General, the head of MI5, the UKs domestic security service
DGSE: General Directorate of External Security (French: Direction Gnrale de la Scurit Extrieure), Frances foreign intelligence service
DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency, the intelligence-gathering unit of the US Department of Defense
DIS: Defence Intelligence Staff, the intelligence unit of the UK Ministry of Defence
DMP: Dublin Metropolitan Police, the police force of the Irish capital under British rule
EMPTA: O-Ethyl methylphosphonothioic acid, a dual-use chemical used for pesticides and as a precursor in the synthesis of nerve agents
ESB: External Security Bureau, Sudans foreign intelligence service
FAA: Foras Armadas Angolanas, the Angolan army, created in 1991
FNLA: National Front for the Liberation of Angola (Portuguese: Frente Nacional de Libertao de Angola), the Angolan political movement
FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US domestic intelligence-gathering agency
FRU: Force Research Unit, an intelligence unit created by the British Army operating in Northern Ireland
Garda: Garda Sochna na hireann, the police force of the Republic of Ireland
GCHQ: Government Communications Headquarters, the UK Governments gatherer of signals intelligence, located in Cheltenham, UK; equivalent of the NSA in the United States
GHQ: General Headquarters, the headquarters of the British Army in Dublin until 1922
GIA: Armed Islamic Group (French: Groupe Islamique Arme), an Algerian Islamist organisation
GRU: Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye) the foreign-military-intelligence service of the Russian Army, created in 1918 and still operational
GWOT: Global War on Terror, the abbreviated term given to President George W. Bushs post-9/11 strategy for countering al-Qaeda
ISI: Inter-Services Intelligence agency, Pakistans intelligence service
IRBM: Intermediate-range ballistic missile
ISG: Iraq Survey Group, the 1200-strong team of weapons experts, intelligence officers and military personnel sent to Iraq to search for WMD
JIC: Joint Intelligence Committee, the UK Government committee wherein intelligence gathered by the intelligence agencies is pooled
JTAC: Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, the UK multi-agency clearing house for terrorism-related intelligence
KGB: The Committee for State Security (Russian: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti), foreign-intelligence service of the Soviet Union, created in 1954, disbanded in 1991
LIFG: Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (Arabic: al-Harakat al-Islamiya al-Libiya), a Libya-focused affiliate of al-Qaeda
MI5: The UKs domestic security service, also referred to as the Security Service
MoD: Ministry of Defence, the UKs Defence Ministry
MPLA: Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertao de Angola), the Angolan political movement
MBTI: Myers Briggs Type Indicator, a management tool used by GCHQ to place staff in appropriate roles according to personality type
NSA: National Security Agency, the US agency for gathering electronic and signals intelligence; equivalent of the UKs GCHQ
OSCT: Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, the UK Home Office department coordinating all UK counter-terrorist activity
PIRA: The Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Northern Ireland republican terrorist group, also referred to as the IRA
PoWs: prisoners of war
RAF: Royal Air Force, the UKs airforce
RIC: Royal Irish Constabulary, the national police force of Ireland under British rule
RUC: Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 2001, when it was renamed the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)
SAS: Special Air Service, the special-forces regiment of the British Army
SEALs: Sea Air and Land teams, elite troops of the US Navy, a unit of which was responsible for the capturing and killing of the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on 2 May 2011
SIS: Secret Intelligence Service, the UKs foreign intelligence service, known also as MI6
SISM: Military Intelligence and Security Service (Italian: Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare, Italys military-intelligence service between 1977 and 2007; on 1 August 2007 SISMI was replaced by the Intelligence and External Security Agency (Italian: Agenzia Informazioni e la Sicurezza Esterna), the AISE
SST: Sensitive Site Team, specialist teams sent to Iraq to search for WMD
TASS: Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Russian: Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza), the news agency of the Soviet Union
TOW: US anti-tank missile
UNITA: National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Portuguese: Unio Nacional para a Independncia Total de Angola), the Angolan political movement
