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Autonomy Systems Ltd

Autonomy Systems Ltd was a British software company, owned by holding company Autonomy Corporation Ltd (ACL).Juliette Garside, Autonomy made 80% less UK profit than stated, Hewlett-Packard finds, theguardian.com, 3 February 2014.
==Foundation==
Autonomy was founded in 1996, based on research at the University of Cambridge.CAMBRIDGE ESSENTIAL TO AUTONOMY’S FUTURE, Business Weekly, 17 February 2011.
Apax Partners sold a stake in Autonomy for £1 billion in 2001.Jonathan Lambeth, Autonomy stake nets Apax £1bn, The Telegraph, 26 February 2001.
==Richard Perle controversy==
Richard Perle was a director of Autonomy Corporation Ltd from 2000 to 2010.Mr Richard Perle, companycheck.co.uk, accessed 1 April 2014. 
This was one of a number of directorships cited by the US press in a controversy over Perle's links with defence companies prior to his resignation as chairman of the Defense Policy Board in 2003.Tim Shorrock, Richard Perle's Corporate Adventures, The Nation, 3 April 2003.
==Intelligence clients==
In early 2003, Autonomy founder Mike Lynch stated that the threat of war in Iraq had helped sales to intelligence agencies, as 'defence issues come more to mind, which frees up the mind to spend.'David Leigh, Pentagon hawk linked to UK intelligence company, Guardian, 21 March 2003.
In 2003, the Guardian reported that a third of Autonomy's £60 million turnover came from intelligence agencies. Clients were said to include MI6 and GCHQ in the UK, The National Security Agency, the Defence Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security in the United States, as well as intelligence agencies in Italy.David Leigh, Pentagon hawk linked to UK intelligence company, Guardian, 21 March 2003.
==Hewlett Packard takeover==
Autonomy was was sold to Hewlett Packard (HP) in 2011.Juliette Garside, Autonomy made 80% less UK profit than stated, Hewlett-Packard finds, theguardian.com, 3 February 2014. Following the replacement of HP CEO Mike Apotheker by Meg Whitman, Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was sacked in May 2012.
Hewlett Packard wrote down the value of Autonomy by £5.5 billion in November 2012, contributing to a $6.9 billion quarterly loss for the US company. Lynch accused HP of blaming his management team for its own failings.Juliette Garside, Autonomy made 80% less UK profit than stated, Hewlett-Packard finds, theguardian.com, 3 February 2014.
==External resources==
*Autonomy timeline, autonomyaccounts.org. This website was set up by Mike Lynch to rebut Hewlett Packard's accusations.
==Notes==
Category:UK
Avandia: Doctors demand freeze on use of diabetes drug for heart patients

==Background==
Avandia or Rosiglitazone, is one of GlaxoSmithKline's blockbuster drugs for type 2 diabetes. It was raking in 4.6 million pounds a day in the early months of 2007, when an independent researcher who worked at the Cleveland Clinic in America, Steven Nissen, published a controversial meta-analysis of the drug in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Nissen added up heart problem data in all the previously published studies of Avandia in order to examine the drug’s safety profile. He concluded that users are 43 per cent more likely to have heart attacks and that there is an even higher increase in the risk of fatal heart problems.Nissen, S., and Wolski, K. (2007) Effect of Rosiglitazone on the Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Death from Cardiovascular Causes. The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 356:2457-2471.
In April 2008, The Scotsman reported on NHS Scotland's reaction to Nissen's meta-analysis: Doctors Demand Freeze on use of diabetes drug for heart patients 
==Notes==
Avenir Suisse

Avenir Suisse is a free-market liberal Swiss think tank. Founded and initially financed in 1999 by 14 internationally operating Swiss companies, Avenir Suisse is constituted as a foundation under Swiss law and considers itself independent from outside interests. The foundation's name translates to "Swiss Future".
According to its mission statement, Avenir Suisse "wants to contribute to the formation of new ideas concerning economics, politics and the society at large." It follows "a liberal agenda and represents a market oriented position." Thus it postulates that "it can not be in the first place the task of the state to solve the problems on the agenda."
Although Avenir Suisse's positions, generally favoring deregulation and a reduction of government intervention, are usually not received enthusiastically in mainstream Swiss politics, they do tend to generate substantial media attention.
Avenir Suisse is a member of the Stockholm Network, an umbrella organisation for market-oriented European think tanks.
==People==
Walter B. Kielholz
===External link===
*Website of Avenir Suisse
==Notes==
Aventis

Aventis was a pharmaceutical and lab assay testing company. It was formed in 1999 when Rhône-Poulenc S.A. merged with Hoechst AG. The merged company was based in Strasbourg, France. Sanofi-Aventis was formed in 2004 when Sanofi-Synthélabo purchased Aventis.
==Affiliations==
*Burson Marsteller
**Coalition Against Thromboembolism
**Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis
===Former lobbying firms===
*Brevia Consulting
*Van Luyken Communicatie Adviseurs Public Relations Organisations InternationalVan Luyken Cummunicatie Adviseurs accessed 13th February 2008
==References==
Avi Benayahu

Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu was the head of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit from 2007 to 2011.Brig. Gen. Yoav “Poli‏”‏ Mordechai Appointed New IDF Spokesperson, IDF Blog, 10 April 2011.
Benayahu said in January 2011 that he had used a false name on a trip to Britain because he feared arrest for war crimes. According to the Jerusalem Post website, Benayahu stated:
::"In my last visit to London, I had to assume a false name because well-funded anti-Israel activists are exploiting universal jurisdiction powers to wage lawfare against us," Benayahu explained. "It's absurd, and I understand the government is trying to legislate changes to prevent this." IDF spokesperson: I traveled to UK under a false name, jpost.com, 3 January 2011.
==External resources==
*Gilli Cohen, Former IDF spokesman drops Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth from libel suit, Haaretz, 12 September 2013.
==Notes==
Benayahu, AviBenayahu, Avi
Avi Dagan

Avi Dagan is a former senior Mossad officer who retired in 1997.Simon Rocker, Former Mossad man gives evidence in Gaydamak and Leviev trial, TheJC.com, 31 May 2012.
According to journalist Yossi Melman, he is a former head of the Tzomet division of the Mossad.Yossi Melman, A trigger-happy adventurer? Apparently not, Haaretz, 27 January 2003.
==Notes==
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Avi Davis

Avi Davis is an attorney and journalist who writes and lectures about Israel, the Middle East and European affairs. He is the senior fellow of the American Freedom Alliance and the co-ordinator of the Collapse of Europe conference.Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive? - Biographies, European Freedom Alliance, accessed 7 January 2009. 
==Affiliations==
*American Freedom Alliance
*Moderator at Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive? a conference held in Rome on 13-14 March 2008, under the auspices of the European Freedom Alliance in conjunction with the European University of Rome and the Lepanto Foundation.Program - Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive?, European Freedom Alliance, accessed 5 January 2009.
==References==
Davis, Avi
Avi Jorisch

==Target Iran==
Avi Jorisch served as an advisor in the Treasury Department's , which has led the charge against Iran. On 1 August, 2011, Jorisch penned an op-ed for New York Times, in which he urged the US government to consider seizing Iran's Washington embassy building (currenlty under State Department trusteeship), citing the seizure of the US embassy by Iranian students in 1979 as a precedent. He writes:
:While the government has thus far respected and protected Iran’s property rights and permitted Iranian officials an unparalleled level of freedom, Washington should now seize outright all Iranian assets in the United States and bar as many Iranian officials as possible from our soil...The government should seize all of Iran’s properties in the United States and rent the space to liberal Iranian opposition groups...Seizing Iran’s assets and barring its officials from the United States would send a strong message that Washington aims to stop Iran’s nuclear program by any peaceful means necessary.Avi Jorisch, To Punish Iran, Seize Its Embassy, New York Times, 1 August 2011
==Affiliations==
*Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
*The David Project - member Speakers BureauAvi Jorisch, Speaker Bureau profile, The David Project, accessed 4 August 2011
*Red Cell Intelligence Group - founder
*Washington Institute for Near East Policy - adjunct scholar
*Joint Special Operations University - fellow
*Stuart Levey - advisor
==Contact==
Websites 
*http://www.avijorisch.com
*http://www.redcellig.com
==References==
Jorisch, AviJorisch, AviJorisch, Avi
Avi Lehrer

Avi Lehrer is the founder of the pro-Israel advocacy organisation the British Israel Group (BIG).Avi Lehrer Fine Art Website Avi Lehrer Fine Art. Accessed 2 June 2015. Lehrer was born in London in 1947 but emigrated to Israel in 1997.Avi Lehrer Fine Art Website Avi Lehrer Fine Art. Accessed 2 June 2015. He studied law at London University and is now a member of the Israel Bar.Avi Lehrer Fine Art Website Avi Lehrer Fine Art. Accessed 2 June 2015. According to his homepage he was active in radical politics whilst a student.Avi Lehrer Fine Art Website Avi Lehrer Fine Art. Accessed 2 June 2015. In 1967 he went to Israel 'to volunteer' (it is unclear in what capacity).Avi Lehrer Fine Art Website Avi Lehrer Fine Art. Accessed 2 June 2015. From 1965 onwards he was a committee member of the Universities Committee for Soviet Jewry.Avi Lehrer Fine Art Website Avi Lehrer Fine Art. Accessed 2 June 2015. Lehrer co-directed and co-produced a documentary on the state of the Yiddish language in Israel.Avi Lehrer Fine Art Website Avi Lehrer Fine Art. Accessed 2 June 2015. He paints and maintains a website displaying his artworks.Avi Lehrer Fine Art Website Avi Lehrer Fine Art. Accessed 2 June 2015.
In 2002, responding to an article in The Guardian comparing Israel with apartheid South Africa, Lehrer claimed that peace in the Middle East does not depend upon the actions of Israel and withdrawal from the occupied territories, but rather upon the end of supposed Arab rejectionism. Avi Lehrer, 'Justice in the Holy Land', The Guardian, 23 December 2002, accessed 2 June 2015.
In a letter to The Independent published in July 2014 Lehrer criticised Robert Fisk's description of Israel having been founded on the dispossession of Arab land.Avi Lehrer, 'Letters: Don’t be too impressed by the new Caliph', The Independent, 2 July 2014, accessed 2 June 2015.
Lehrer's page on LinkedIn lists membership of a group called 'Israeli Anglo Network' and another named Coalition of Hasbara Volunteers ('Hasbara' is an Israeli term for 'public diplomacy').LinkedIn Avi Lehrer LiknedIn. Accessed 2 June 2015.
==Affiliations==
*British Israel Group - Founder
*Universities Committee for Soviet Jewry - Committee Member
*Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs - Listed as author
==Contact==
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avi.lehrer?fref=ts
==Notes==
Category:Israel
Avi Primor

Avi Primor is a former Israeli diplomat and member of the board at the Interdisciplinary Center HerzliyaEuropean Jewish Press, 'Five questions' to Avi Primor, European Jewish Press, 29-September-2005, Accessed 26-August-2009.
==Career History==
Primor was ambassador of Israel to Germany (1993-1999). From 1987 until 1991, he was ambassador to the European Union and concurrently to Belgium and Luxembourg. Earlier, he headed various departments at the Israeli Foreign Ministry. 
He worked as vice-President of the Hebrew university of Jerusalem (1991-1993) and vice-President of Tel Aviv university (1999-2003), he is the director of the Trilateral Center for European studies at IDC HerzliyaEuropean Jewish Press, 'Five questions' to Avi Primor, European Jewish Press, 29-September-2005, Accessed 26-August-2009.
==Affiliations==
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
==Notes==
Primor, Avi
Aviation Environment Federation

The Aviation Environment Federation works out of Broken Wharf House.
According to it's website, "The Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) is the principal UK non-profit making environmental association concerned with the environmental effects of aviation.
It promotes a sustainable future for aviation which fully recognises, and takes account of, all its environmental and amenity effects. These range from aircraft noise issues associated with small airstrips or helipads, to the contribution of airline emissions to climate change.
AEF is a membership organisation which provides an advice and information to its members."Aviation Environment Federation, About, accessed 15 feb 2010
==Contact==
===Website===
http://www.aef.org.uk/
===Address===
:Aviation Environment Federation,
:Broken Wharf House,
:2 Broken Wharf,
:London,
:EC4V 3DT.
:T: 020 7248 2223
:F: 020 7329 8160
:E: info@aef.org.ukAviation Environment Federation, Contact, accessed 15 feb 2010
==Phone Number==
The phone number given for the Aviation Environment FederationAviation Environment Federation, Contact, accessed 15 feb 2010 is the same as that cited by both the Airfields Environment TrustAirfields Environment Trust, Contact the Trust, accessed 12 Feb 2010 and GreenSkies.GreenSkies, Contact, accessed 15 feb 2010
==Notes==
Aviel Attias

Aviel Attias is a fellow of the Transatlantic Institute, he holds a Bachelor degree in History of the Middle East and Islam and his Masters thesis is in History of the Middle East. His research interests include radical Islam in Europe, radical Islamic thought and politics, and terror funding. Aviel speaks Hebrew, English, French, and ArabicStaff, Aviel Attias, The Transatlantic Institute, Accessed 03-June-2009. Attas, along with another fellow of the Transatlantic Institute Margherita Sacerdoti, is a contributor to the Italian online newspaper the Tamarind. 
==Affiliations==
Transatlantic Institute
==Contact==
*Email - fellow@transatlanticinstitute.org
*Twitter - http://twitter.com/AvielAttias
==Notes==
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Avigdor Kahalani

Brigadier-General (res.) Avigdor Kahalani (born 16 June 1944) is a former Israeli soldier and politician. Kahalani saw combat during the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur war. He currently serves as the head of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers. Kahalani graduated with a B.A. in History from Tel Aviv University and an M.A. in Political Science from Haifa University. He also studied at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and is a graduate of the National Defense College.Jewish Virtual Library Avigdor Kahalani. Accessed 2 March 2015. 
Kahalani retired from the IDF in 1992 and was subsequently elected to the Israeli Knesset as a Labor MK. He served on the Foreign Affairs, Defense, Culture and Education Committees. Kahlani also served as Chairman of the Golan Lobby in the Knesset. Kahalani and his own party the 'Third Way' subsequently split from Labor. Following Israeli elections in 1996 which brought a Likud coalition to power Kahalani became Minister of Public Security. 
In the 1999 elections, however, the Third Way party failed to cross the electoral threshold and Kahalani lost his seat. He later joined Likud, and was placed 43rd on the party's list for the 2003 elections, but missed out on a seat when the party won only 38. Jewish Virtual Library Avigdor Kahalani. Accessed 2 March 2015. 
He is the author of a book titled 'The Heights of Courage: A Tank Leader's War On the Golan'.Amazon.es 'The Heights of Courage: A Tank Leader's War On the Golan'. Accessed 2 March 2015. 
==Views==
During Operation Protective Edge Kahalani stated in an interview that he had pressed the government to launch an offensive in Gaza:
:This is not an 'operation' now - it's a war about our survival... I was among those who tried to convince the government to go in.
Regarding Israel's position in the Middle East he remarked that:
:We're living in a jungle, and only the strong survive. If you are weak, they will eat you.
In the same interview Kahalani claimed that Hamas was using civilian infrastructure and noncombatants to shield their forces:
:There is a lot of risk because Hamas uses [noncombatants] to protect them. Many of their bunkers are un-der kindergartens, mosques, hospitals and houses, which means they have the ability to cause many casual-ties to their own people, and for the IDF.Daniel K. Eisenbud, There is a moment when a nation must protect itself, and that moment is now.' Retired brigadier-general Avigdor Kahalani, Yom Kippur war he-ro, raises $4m. in support of Operation Protective Edge', Jerusalem Post, 21 July 2014
==Notes==
Category:Israel
Avigdor Liberman

Avigdor Liberman is the Foreign Minister of Israel as of July 2012.Avigdor Liberman, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed 15 July 2012.
==External Resources==
*Lieberman Joins The Coalition, US Embassy Tel Aviv, 25 October 2006, published by Wikileaks, 1 September 2011.
*Yossi Melman, Israeli arms dealers join Lieberman's entourage to Africa, Haaretz, 6 August 2009.
==Notes==
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Avital Leibovich

Major Avital Leibovich is the head of the Foreign Press Branch of the Israel Defence Forces.Max Socol, IDF launches YouTube Gaza channel, jpost.com, 30 December 2008.
===Operation Cast Lead===
During Operation Cast Lead, Israel's invasion of Gaza in December 2008/January 2009, Leibovich was responsible for the creation of a dedicated IDF blog and Youtube channel. She explained the thinking behind the move in an interview with the Jerusalem Post.
::"The blogosphere and new media are another war zone," said Foreign Press Branch head Maj. Avital Leibovich. "We have to be relevant there," she said.
::Her sentiment reflects a growing awareness in the Israeli government that part of the failure of the 2006 Lebanon campaign was Israel's lack of readiness for the intense media debate surrounding its operations. Since the beginning of the Gaza air strikes, Israeli politicians have been appearing regularly on the largest international news networks to defend the IDF.Max Socol, IDF launches YouTube Gaza channel, jpost.com, 30 December 2008.
==Affiliations==
*IDF Spokesperson's Unit
==Contact==
*LinkedIn: Avital Leibovich
*Twitter: @AvitalLeibovich
==External Resources==
YouTube, IDF Spokesperson's Unit
==Notes==
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Aviv Kochavi

Aviv Kochavi was appointed head of Israeli military intelligence (Aman) in late 2010.Anshel Pfeffer and Amos Harel, Rising star Kochavi to replace Yadlin as IDF intelligence chief, Haaretz, 17 September 2011.
Yediot Aharonot reported in October 2011 that Kochavi opposed an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.Larry Derfner, Finally, Iran plan wakes Israel up to “the Israeli threat”, +972, 2 November 2011.
In 2006, Kochavi cancelled a trip to London to study at the Royal College of Defence Studies after he was warned by an IDF judge that he could be arrested on arrival.IDF spokesperson: I traveled to UK under a false name, jpost.com, 3 January 2011.
==External Resources==
*Major General Aviv Kochavi, Director of Military Intelligence, IDF.
*Neri Brenner, MI chief: Iran can produce 4 bombs, ynetnews.com, 2 February 2012.
==See also==
*JFS - Kochavi visited in 2023.
==Notes==
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Avner Azulay

Avner Azulay is a former Mossad agent.James Risen with Alison Leigh Cowan, U.S. Diplomats Turned Aside Israeli Push on Rich's Behalf, New York Times, 17 February 2011. As director of the Marc Rich Foundation for Israel, he played a key role in the campaign which gained fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich a US presidential pardon.Ran Dagoni, Marc Rich Foundation director Avner Azulay played key role in pardon, globes.co.il, 11 February 2001.
==Affiliations==
*Institute for Jewish Policy Research - Board of Directors
*New Israel Fund - International Council Member
==Notes==
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Avpixlat

|300px|thumb|right|Avpixlat logo circa 2015, Credit: [http://avpixlat.info/ Avpixlat] 
Avpixlat is a Swedish website which has been described as an 'infamous hate site' with a 'strongly anti-immigrant bias'.Swedish magnates fund infamous 'hate site', The Local, 23 October 2013, accessed 16 February 2015. 
==History==
The website was launched in October 2011. It was reportedly registered by far-right Sweden Democrats politician Kent Ekeroth.Website touts ruse to turn in illegal immigrants, The Local, 25 January 2012 The predecessor site was called politisktinkorrect.info.
According to British organisation Hope Not Hate, Avpixlat.info was the name of a website it identified as the Svenska Forum mot Islamisering (Swedish Forum against Islamisation) or FOMI, which it said claimed to be a 'sister blog' to www.imittsverige.blogspot.com and described as being 'linked to the Sweden Democrats' and run by a man using the alias Reinhard.Hope Not Hate, Svenska Forum mot Islamisering, Counterjihad report: Sweden, accessed 16 February 2015
==Activities==
The Local reports:
::The site's name translates into English as 'unpixelated', but is also a Swedish colloquialism meaning to 'reveal' or 'unmask"'and one of the most common recurring themes on the site is publish photos of suspected criminals of foreign origin. The website furthermore contains material which echoes the Sweden Democrats party's negative line on immigration, multicultural society, and the mainstream Swedish media.Sweden Democrat has close ties to far-right site, 27 June 2013, accessed 16 February 2015
==Funding==
As well as registering the site, Kent Ekeroth was revealed by the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet to have channeled around 226,540 Swedish kronor ($35,000) to the site via his bank account and was sent a tax bill by the Swedish tax agency as a result. 
The newspaper's name-and-shame list of donors to the xenophobic Avpixlat site included doctors, psychologists, entrepreneurs, and researchers. Two top Swedish businessmen - one at the telecom giant Ericsson, the other at industrial giant Sandvik were also outed.Tax bill for politician's ties to far-right site, The Local, 19 June 2013, accessed February and November 2015
==Affiliations==
*Sweden Democrats - 'close ties'
==People==
*Kent Ekeroth - organises fundraising, editorial influence
*Mats Dagerlind - main administrator
==Notes==
Category:Sweden
Category:Counterjihad
Category:Islam Critics