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One retired Egyptian diplomat, speaking unattributably, puts the size of his own country’s internal-security apparatus at about 2m people.

A journalist who keeps a meticulous record of who unattributably said what at a particular moment creates an archive of potential significance.

A senior US administration official, speaking unattributably, said Mr Obama would seek to reassert US leadership on multilateral trade issues when he arrived at the Apec leaders’ summit.

A senior Asian financial regulator, speaking unattributably, says the failed offers paved the way for later deals that eventually created cross-border giants such as NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX.

"I wouldn't want to be next in, I'd want to be next but one or two," one of Fergie's protégés, now a fine manager in his own right, recently and unattributably told a small gathering of journalists.

Other experts on the region, speaking unattributably at a conference of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, said there was a risk Macedonia could unravel if it did not get NATO membership.