Military-grade spyware leased by the Israeli firm NSO Group to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and the two women closest to murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and 16...
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‘The Dissident’ Unravels the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
A top official in Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), has been implicated in the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi (pronounced “Kash-shoke-gee”) The Office of the Director of the National Intelligence has released a declassified report concluding that the order for the assassination came from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A...
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السعودية: رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة
GIP in English أداة ولي العهد تُعد رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة، بصفتها جهاز استخبارات العائلة المالكة السعودية، أداة أساسية في سلطة ولي العهد محمد بن سلمان، الوريث المرجّح للملك السعودي. وقد استعان محمد بن سلمان برئاسة الاستخبارات العامة لشيطنة من ينتقدون النظام السعودي ومضايقتهم وقمعهم واغتيالهم. لقد أُطلق على أسلوب حكم محمد بن سلمان “السلطوية الإلكترونية“،...
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With NSA Training, UAE Spies Monitored Rights Activists and Michelle Obama
From a New York Times story and additional reporting by Al Jazeera: Known as Project Raven, hackers employed state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools to help the UAE engage in surveillance of other governments, armed groups, and human rights activists critical of the monarchy. Interviews by Reuters news agency in 2019 with former Raven operatives, along with a...
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Israel Threatens War to Block Biden’s Iran Diplomacy
It is clear that President Biden wants to rejoin the international nuclear agreement with Iran. President Obama negotiated the pact and Biden regards it as a key part of the Obama legacy. President Trump trashed the agreement with support of Israel. Now Israel is seeking to sustain Trump’s policy. The Israelis, in league with Mohammed bin...