Patrick Mercer Conservative MP for Newark

Dear All,

Its seems as if one of our favourite tory MP's has gone up in the world

No longer consulting for the Blue Hackle Group he is now a Security Consultant to The Olive Group

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11109



The Olive Group is headquartered in Dubai and is a multinational security operation

http://www.olivegroup.com/index.htm

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Olive_Group


Its board of directors

http://www.olivegroup.com/about_management.htm

The St. George brothers are joint Chairmen

David St.George

Former Director of UBP (Union Banc Privee of Switzerland)

http://www.ubp.ch/anglais/index.cfm?langue=2

The current directors of UBP include

Dr. Jacob Frenkel vice chairman of AIG, Group of Thirty and former Governor of the Bank of Israel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Thirty

http://www.aig.com/gateway/home/1-67-UnitedKingdom_index.htm

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76115&p=irol-govboard

The AIG board are a very interesting bunch

Other UBP directors

Pierre Alain Blum -Linked to the Bin Laden family through Sogespa Finance SA

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/321214.html

Georges Van Erck MD of JP Morgan Private Bank

Olive Group Directors

http://www.olivegroup.com/about_directors.htm


Olive Group Board of Advisors ( A very interesting bunch)

http://www.olivegroup.com/about_advisors.htm

The Olive Group has its own training facility in the US

http://www.olivegroup.com/service_training.htm

The training facility website

http://olivestc.com/pages_folder/index.html

The Olive Group is a subcontractor to Bechtel in Iraq

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bechtel

http://www.bechtel.com/leadership.html

As you can see with the sourcewatch article above Bechtel have also links to the Bin Ladens

Bechtel-Bin Ladens

UBP-Bin Ladens

Olive Group-Bechtel

Olive Group-UBP

Patrick Mercer MP-Olive Group


Key people in The Olive Group were responsible whilst at Capita Consulting for the London Congestion Charging system Security infrastructure

Darren Bance

As part of his role at Capita, he managed large technology driven, integration projects such as the highly successful implementation and operation of the London Congestion Charging Scheme CCTV, telecoms and data centre infrastructure.

Gary Laing Vice president USA Training is an ex employee of KBR a division of Halliburton

Meg Williams VP Strategic Analysis (Intel)

She has and i quote
'The team of regional experts Meg has built around her, supported by hundreds of deployed Olive consultants, has provided frequent early warning of outbursts of civil unrest, criminal and terrorist attacks and is now recognized as specialist on the evolution of targeted and situational threats faced by host nations, their critical national infrastructure and the associated expatriate business and contractor communities. '

Dr. Michael Knights
From 2003 - 2004 Mike served as a Gulf Security Research Associate at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Take a look at this lot
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC11.php?CID=133&newActiveSubNav=Board%20of%20Advisors&activeSubNavLink=templateC11.php%3FCID%3D133&newActiveNav=aboutUs

Tim Roberts was project manager responsible for the Metropolitan Polices ' Ring of Steel'
Olive Group Management

http://www.olivegroup.com/about_management.htm

Other reports and articles about the Olive Group

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11355

The next article shows The Olive Groups involvement in the US governments attempt to implicate Iran in supplying weapons to Iraqi insurgents

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36547


It is also interesting that a number of Olive Groups Senior management and directors are ex veridian and that one of their major investors is Monitor-Clipper

http://www.monitorclipper.com/html/overview.html

Their boss Mr Bell is also an ex employee of the now defunct Veridian

http://www.monitorclipper.com/html/team/bell.html