This paper presents a near real-time multilingual news monitoring and analysis system that forms the backbone of our research work. The system integrates technologies to address the problems related to information extraction and analysis of open source intelligence on the World Wide Web. By chaining together different techniques in text mining, automated machine learning and statistical analysis, we can automatically determine who, where and, to a certain extent, what is being reported in news articles. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.3.1 [Content Analysis and Indexing]: Linguistic Processing General Terms Algorithms, Experimentation. Keywords Open Source Text, Information Mining and Analysis, Multilinguality, Automated Media Monitoring.