- Guillaume Dasquié
Guillaume Dasquié (b.
Cahors ,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 + andBFM .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 theUniversity 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 , he co-authored "Forbidden Truth" ["Ben Laden, la vérité interdite", Gallimard, 2002, ISBN 2070423778] , 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") [Guillaume Dasquié and Jean Guisnel, "L'Effroyable mensonge", 2002, ISBN 2707138258] a point-by-point rebuttal of Meyssan's book "".In 2003, he resigned from "Intelligence Online", and published "Les nouveaux pouvoirs" ("New powers") ["Les nouveaux pouvoirs", Flammarion, 2003] about lobbies. He became research director at the IRIS, working on alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destructions. He also joined
Flammarion 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 " in which he claimed that the DGSE 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. [ [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3236,36-993468@51-993471,0.html Lemonde.fr : Gardé à vue, reportage à froid, par Guillaume Dasquié - Médias ] ] .
ee also
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September 11, 2001 attacks References
External links
* [http://www.guillaume-dasquie.com Official site]
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