MOD Selects The Carlyle Group as Preferred Bidder for QinetiQ partnering arrangement Press release announcing that the Carlyle Group, the well-connected and secretive private equity firm central to many post-911 conspiracy theories, is likely to take an unspecified stake in QinetiQ, the 'scientific research organisation' currently owned by the UK Ministry of Defence ( QinetiQ ) See also this additional release, and this Red Herring article from January.LINKS? http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm Enrons Tentacles in England,au. http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/2002/01/30/FFXJ6XGK0XC.html AND http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/04/1031115884347.html