Guillaume Dasquié (b.
Cahors
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, 4 February 1966) is a French journalist and writer who specialises in matters of intelligence and terrorism.
Dasquié graduated in Law in Paris in 1990. The next year he obtained a masters in political science in Paris-I, and later worked for
Canal +
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and
BFM.
In February 1999, he became chief editor of ''
Intelligence Online
Indigo Publications is a French company that publishes 4 news websites, mostly dedicated to specialized business sectors.
History
Indigo Publications was established in Paris in 1981. Founder Maurice Botbol assembled a small team of investigati ...
'', a magazine specialising in politics and economic intelligence. Between 1999 and 2002, he taught at the
University of Marne-la-Vallée
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about privatisation of intelligence and closed source intelligence; in March 1999, he published ''Secrètes affaires'', a book about the subject.
In November 2001, along with
Jean-Charles Brisard
Jean-Charles Brisard (born May 13, 1968 in Dijon, France) is a French international consultant and expert on terrorism.
Education
In 1990 Jean-Charles Brisard graduated from the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in Washington D. ...
and
Wayne Madsen, he co-authored ''Forbidden Truth'', arguing that the Saudis play a double game, dealing with the West and financing radical Islamism.
The next year, along with
Jean Guisnel, he co-authored ''L'Effroyable mensonge'' ("The Horrifying Lie") a point-by-point rebuttal of Meyssan's book ''
9/11: The Big Lie''.
In 2003, he resigned from ''Intelligence Online'', and published ''Les nouveaux pouvoirs'' ("New powers") about
lobbies. He became research director at the
IRIS
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Fictional ent ...
, working on alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destructions. He also joined
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to develop its investigation book line, an office he held until 2005.
In 2005, he published ''Al-Qaida vaincra'', in which he accused the
International Islamic Relief Organisation of financing violent radical Islamism.
On 17 April 2007, Dasquié published an article in ''
le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
'' in which he claimed that the
DGSE
The General Directorate for External Security (french: link=no, Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure, DGSE) is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 2 April 1982. ...
has warned US authorities against plane hijacking as soon as January 2001. On 5 December 2007, Dasquié was arrested and charged for publication of classified information.
He was freed some days later. According to him, his freedom was obtained in change of accusing one person from its source who might be from the DGSE.
Lemonde.fr : Gardé à vue, reportage à froid, par Guillaume Dasquié - Médias
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See also
*September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
References
External links
Official site
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French journalists
Living people
1966 births
French male non-fiction writers