Saudi Arabia: Update on the Miksa border surveillance programmenote

Saudi Arabia is set to award the Miksa border surveillance programme in the coming months. The following 381-word article is published in Tactical Weekly of February 1, 2008. It names the companies that bid for the programme and the front-runners, talks about the conditions, the obstacles, and the committee in charge of the contracts and discusses whether French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Saudi Arabia affected the examination of offers.