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Article: Security experts from around the world
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- Middle East
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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As the Emirate of Qatar prepares to host the international police and security equipment exhibition, MILIPOL '98, for the second time, the signs are that the number of exhibitors will have risen above 300, with the event (7-lOth November) attracting a record 8,000 visitors.
This is the only gathering of its type in the Middle East - a region that over the past 20 years has seen two Presidents assassinated (in Egypt and Lebanon), attempts being made on the lives of several Gulf Heads of State a shoot-out within the Yemeni Politburo, and a relentless expansion of acts of political terrorism against civilians and foreign nationals.
In certain limited areas of life in the region personal ...