Excerpts: Ahmadinejad no-show at African Union summit.Saudi to 'security
fence' its borders July 02, 2009

+++NAHARNET 2 July '09:"Iran's Ahmadinejad Cancels Libya Visit", Associated
Press
FULL TEXT:Iran's Fars news agency says that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
will not attend the African Union summit in Libya as was expected.
In a brief statement, the semiofficial news agency reported that the
president's visit to Libya - which was supposed to start Wednesday has been
canceled. No reason was given.
The trip would have been one of Ahmadinejad's first since his disputed
re-election earlier this month.
The opposition has claimed the election was a fraud, and Iran has been
shaken by widespread protests challenging Ahmadinejad's victory.
The three-day heads of state AU summit opens Wednesday(1 July) in the
coastal city of Sirte, east of the capital, Tripoli.(AP)

++NAHARNET (Lebanon) 2 July '09:"EADS Wins Saudi Border Security Deal"
SUBJECT: Saudi to 'security fence" its borders
QUOTE: "increased wories about infiltration into the country by
anti-government militants"

EXCERPTS: European aerospace and defense contractor EADS has signed a
contract
with Saudi Arabia to build a high-tech security fence on 9,000 kilometers
(5,600 miles) of the country's border, the company said on Wednesday(1
July).

In a long-awaited deal, EADS Defense and Security,..., is expected to create
a system of security posts and surface and aerial monitoring of Saudi land
and sea borders over the next five years, the company announced.
The project "will ensure border coverage is visible and managed at the
sector level, whilst simultaneously providing situational awareness at the
regional and national level," the company said.
EADS said it is the prime contractor for the project, which comes in
addition to an already-underway border security project for Saudi Arabia's
northern border with Iraq in which EADS is taking part.
. . .
But with increased worries over infiltration into the country by
anti-government militants and Al-Qaeda operatives, especially from the
southern border with Yemen and a rise in illegal immigration from around the
region, the Saudi interior ministry expanded the scope of the programme to
fence and electronically monitor all the country's borders.. . .
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Sue Lerner - Associate, IMRA