Guillaume Dasquié (b.
Cahors
Cahors (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the western part of Southern France. It is the smallest prefecture among the 13 departments that constitute the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Region. The capital and main city of t ...
, 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 + and
BFM.
In February 1999, he became chief editor of ''
Intelligence Online'', a magazine specialising in politics and economic intelligence. Between 1999 and 2002, he taught at the
University of Marne-la-Vallée 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 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, 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
(; ) is a mass media in France, French daily afternoon list of newspapers in France, newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average print circulation, circulation of 480,000 copies per issue in 2022, including ...
'' in which he claimed that the
DGSE
The Directorate-General for External Security (, , DGSE) is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGSE safeguards French national security through intellige ...
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, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...
References
External links
Official site
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French journalists
Living people
1966 births
French male non-fiction writers