Spying is Lying and for the Wrong Reasons Dying - The NGO Kill List - Case: terror reaches Côte d’Ivoire

Ultrascan AGI & HUMINT

Is it that we see a different, more frightening world than you do?

Our enemies are no longer nations and do not exist on a map but are non-state actors and unknown individuals. Look around you, who do you fear? Can you see a face, a uniform, a flag? No.

Yet, before breakfast in their pajamas, they can do more damage from their laptops than an intelligence agent can during a year in the field. Online organized crime doesn't know law and order, has a Wild West mentality, and is lawless to the core. Anarchy.

While transparency became fashionable in the West, the world is not more transparent now. Today it's more opaque, in the shadows, and that's where we do battle. So, before you declare that irrelevant, ask yourselves, how safe do you feel?

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Ultrascan is an association of 51 partners managing 3284 experts in 69 countries. Ultrascan has been established in 1996.

The scope of our work is Anti Money Laundering - Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) and the Nexus Terrorism - disrupting Transnational Criminal Networks. This scope generates HUMINT and access to primary sources in and outside the chain of command.

Our vision is that to enable new security policy as well as geo-policy, one first has to align with the current one to compile an intelligence analysis.

Unlimited access to information and people gave us a good sense for seemingly insignificant or isolated events and the " Butterfly Effect "

In the past 18 years, Ultrascan has set up a human intelligence network, coordinating the international cooperation of 3284 experts in over 69 countries. These experts, provide the basis for Professional Investigative Services. Assist you with Corporate Investigations or be your source for effective security risk management and Policy to mitigate crime trends or imminent incidents.

Even though Researching Organized Crime and Terrorism through undercover investigations brings certain personal security risks, as operational security is maintained it is most gratifying to reveal illegal financial crime trends, tracing cross border assets, map networks of anonymous suspects in hostile environments, and enable international security operations to counter terror funding or fraud.

Ultrascan has extensive experience with identifying, locating, mapping, monitoring, analyzing, and predicting perpetrators of cross border fraud, money laundering, and the planning, funding, communications, and support of terrorism for local or international religious extremists as a fast-growing component of ideological struggle, as well as geopolitical.

Implementing strategic security audits to detect when fraud and money laundering is shifting from a criminal-inspired activity into an ideology-driven terror funding mechanism, is particularly useful for counter-terrorism financing, anti-money laundering, sanctions, and compliance security measures.

"We have the tools and resources. Managed appropriately we effectively monitor with impact assessments in place"

Spying is Lying and for the Wrong Reasons Dying - The NGO Kill List - Case: terror reaches Côte d’Ivoire - Grand Bassam

Any obstacle that the Al Qaida network faces in its effort to achieve its mission statement, the Al Qaida terror network identifies as a threat - hurt the western financial and espionage position in Africa through the killing of spies, hidden in NGO's, businesses and the corps diplomatique"

Although not often recognized, Africa is a key continent for The Al Qaida terror network . We have observed several terror attacks in African countries as well as religious related and inspired conflicts. Africa is a large center of “recruitment” for the Al Qaida terror network and terror acts toward the west are increasingly planned from Africa. Al Qaeda’s “mission statement”, to establish an Islamic caliphate reaching from Morocco to Afghanistan, crosses a large part of the African continent.

"Any obstacle that the Al Qaida network faces in its effort to achieve its mission statement, the Al Qaida terror network identifies as a threat"

Several African regimes have been chosen as a prime target for the Al Qaida network. Vulnerable countries are: Egypt (Suez channel and tourism), Morocco (due to the current regime), Algeria (foreign investors in gas), Tunis, South Africa and further all western (predominantly USA) embassies, UN aid organizations and NGO’s.

Al Qaeda High Profile Attacks

The threat of an attack by multiple gunmen on a location packed with civilians remains the second biggest fears of counter terrorism chiefs. The ambition of violent Islamist's to stage a Mumbai-style atrocity is undiminished.

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Multi cells, for specific targets in Africa

Increasingly Al Qaida aims its counter intelligence operatives in Africa in subversion of the West. It’s not unusual for Al Qaeda to launch diversions. For specific targets it uses a "multi cells, one target approach" to mislead detection and force opponents to cast a wide net.

After being hit in Mali and Burkina Faso, France (and others before) warned Senegal and Ivory Coast in January 2016 of Terror Attacks, but the Al Qaeda "multi cells, one target" threat proofed too difficult for them.

After being hit in Mali and Burkina Faso, France (and others before) warned Senegal and Ivory Coast in January 2016 of Terror Attacks, but the Al Qaeda

These specific attacks in Africa, were planned and assigned by the counter-intelligence organisation of (the original) Al Qaida for two reasons, of which one is:

"hurt the western financial and espionage position in Africa through the killing of spies, hidden in NGO's, businesses and the corps diplomatique"

Timely warnings

Targeted countries were timely alerted based on specific information about cells of fighters on the move. For example - In the past(!!) years special military units in Senegal and Mali have received high value intelligence from inside Al Qaeda that enabled them to disrupt this type of multi cells terror threats.

Listed Targets

These are 'fixed targets', derived from lists of covert-operations, agents, "contractors", specific locations of, safe houses, meeting places, ID's and intelligence assets. Lists that were stolen from the Mukhabarat offices during the Arab spring in Cairo . Anyone with a copy knows most of the (future) fixed targets of Al Qaeda.

Lists that were stolen from the Mukhabarat offices during the Arab spring in Cairo

The first blow is half the battle

The lists enable al Qaeda to differentiate targets meticulously precise by intelligence service, for example French, Belgian, German, British or American.

- U.S. consulate in Benghazi
- Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli
- Safe house in Bamako
- Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako
- Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou
- Etoile du Sud hotel, Coral Beach in Ivory Coast
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287 primary targets are on the Africa lists

The living daylights

These are not the kill at random 'opportunity targets' to establish presence and fear , but 'specific targets' to scare the living daylights out of a locally active intelligence community and send a chilling lightning bolt directly into the corridors of power and intelligence services INR , CIA , DIA , MI6 , DGSE , MAD , ......

Case: terror reaches Côte d’Ivoire - Grand Bassam

December, 2015 - an Anti Money Laundering and risk assessment operation in the Maghreb, Egypt and other parts of the Middle East. Discovering imminent threats to West Africa as a prime target for the Al Qaeda network, reason for a 30-days Ultrascan Humint terror alert .

"Intercepted encrypted messages between members of the Al Qaida network mentioning the premises of NGO's in West Africa as well as their affiliates and personnel as a possible target"

January, 2016 - Ongoing HUMINT and analysis, regarding the above mentioned terror alert, yielded that the targets are international NGO's and suspicion about possible Mumbai style operations scenario’s in West Africa.

- Ongoing Humint; whispers of terror cells from Al Qaeda launched and on the move in Mauritania, Guinea and Burkina Faso.

- Revealed tradecraft, was sufficient reason to initiate a low level of monitoring , collecting phone numbers, IMEI’s, IMSI’s, locations, time and duration of the calls.

Monitored and plotted communications of three groups show separate patterns in Guinea and Burkina Faso, one group moves towards a border-crossing with Côte d’Ivoire. Reason to launch a tactical team to intercept if/when suspects cross the border, identify and disrupt.

"Intercepted messages between members of the al Qaeda network mentioning elements of the coordination for a high profile terror attacks"

January 16 - Burkina Faso hotel attack: At least 20 reported dead, 63 hostages released

January 17, 2016 - Alert! - Elevated Threat Levels from Al Qaeda affiliates for - Abidjan - Côte d’Ivoire - Ivory Coast and Dakar - Senegal. Reason to extend the terror alert with 60 days ..... France Said to Warn Senegal, Ivory Coast of Terror Attack

Burkina Faso hotel attack: At least 20 reported dead, 63 hostages released

January 23, 2016 - The first and only incoming call from a Mauritanian subscriber in Ivory Coast reveals activity in Cote d'Ivoir. This threat by Al Qaeda is alive, with the scope of the organisation, scale, and possible targets identified.

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March 13, 2016 - 16 Killed in Terrorist Attack on Resort Hotels in Ivory Coast

Al Qaeda claims responsibility for Ivory Coast hotel shooting in which 16 'including four Europeans' killed at resort