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International Media Intelligence Analysis was an e-newsletter service affiliated with Réalité EU set up by its director Simon Barrett.

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Background

International Media Intelligence Analysis appears to have been set up by the British neocon Simon Barrett with the backing of the Jewish record executive Jill Sinclair. The first press reference to IMIA was in the Sunday Express in February 2006. [1] It was incorporated as a UK company on 5 August 2005. On 9 August Simon Barrett registered the domains I-M-I-A.org and I-M-I-A.com [2] – though those websites appear to have never gone live. It did maintain a website at imianews.org, but the domain was deleted on 15 December 2008 and there is no remaining evidence of the content.

International Media Intelligence Analysis was registered to a business address of SARM Studios. The registered address at Companies House was initially SARM UK Ltd, 8 - 10 Basing Street, London W11 1ET, although after tens days the reference to SARM UK Ltd was removed from the company’s official address. Barrett was the sole director of the company, whilst the Jewish accountant and businessman Colin Wagman served as company secretary. [3] The company had two issued shares, one held by Simon Barrett and the other by Jill Sinclair. [4] The company was dissolved on 14 April 2009.

Activities

International Media Intelligence Analysis is referred to in some press articles as a London based think-tank, but in fact it appears to have operated merely as an e-newsletter service run solely by Barrett providing 'a biweekly news alert with information not generally covered by the mainstream media.' [5] According to its website the company “[exposed] the threats from state sponsors of terrorist organisations, extremist leaders and groups, financing of terrorism, proliferation of nuclear weapons, human rights violations as well as counter terrorist organisations' initiatives”. [6] In 2007 it was described on the website of Réalité-EU (see below) as follows:

International Media Intelligence Analysis (IMIA) offers a new searchlight focusing on news and developments within the Middle East and that region's impact on the rest of the world.

IMIA, a European-based organisation with global reach, provides facts, insights and analysis on key developments and trends in the Middle East. IMIA exposes the threats from state sponsors of terrorist organisations, extremist leaders and groups, financing of terrorism, proliferation of nuclear weapons, human rights violations as well as counter terrorist organisations' initiatives. IMIA offers an informed and accurate view of developments taking place in the troubled and volatile region of the Middle East - a region that has far reaching implications for the rest of the world.[7]

IMIA co-hosted an event with the Euro-sceptic think-tank Open Europe. The two organisations held a briefing on 'Iran, Britain and Europe: Post hostage crisis, what can we expect next?' in Committee Room 9, House of Commons, Tuesday 22 May 2007, 2-4pm. With: Mark Fitzpatrick, Director of Non-Proliferation International Institute for Strategic Studies; Claude Moniquet, Director European Strategic and Intelligence Center; Patrick Mercer MP; Nazenin Ansari, Diplomatic Editor, Kayhan.[8]

Views

Simon Barrett is quoted in a Christian Broadcasting Network news report on the cartoon riots early 2006:

Terrorism expert Simon Barrett advises members of Parliament on terrorism issues. Barrett said, “Having spoken to a number of journalists and asking them questions -- would your paper be prepared to publish these cartoons? The answer [they give] is no, because we fear that we would be targeted, we would firebombed and we would labeled as being anti-Islamic.”[9]

You can hear Barrett on the neo-con podcasts at Global Crisis Watch ("from the heartland of America, this is Global Crisis Watch -- taking you to the frontline on the war off ideas. With people who are fighting tyranny and terrorism with the poles of freedom. From the Twin Cities I am Richard Lafayette, and from inside the Washington Beltway, I'm Nick Grace. This is Global Crisis Watch")[10]

Affiliations

References

  1. ↑ Kirsty Buchanan, ‘Britain's secret get-out clause’, Sunday Express, 5 February 2006
  2. ↑ I-M-I-A.com Who is Record, I-M-I-A.org Who is Record
  3. ↑ International Media Intelligence Analysis Ltd Annual Returns made up to 5 August 2006. Filed at Companies House on 25 September 2006
  4. ↑ International Media Intelligence Analysis Ltd Annual Returns made up to 5 August 2006. Filed at Companies House on 25 September 2006
  5. ↑ Realite-EU Expert Sources (access 20 December 2007)
  6. ↑ Website of International Media Intelligence Analysis (accessed 20 December 2007)
  7. ↑ Internet Archive, REALITE-EU - About IMIA, 23 January 2007
  8. ↑ Open Europe Events, accessed 20 December 2007
  9. ↑ More Muslim Riots over Cartoons, Fatwa Issued for Cartoonist By Dale Hurd CBN News Sr. Reporter, 20 February 2006.
  10. ↑ e.g. in this podcast: http://www.clandestineradio.com/gcw/gcw_060116.mp3
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