The connection of Israel with the case Khashoggi emerges with new revelations court. A saudi activist in exile in Canada, Omar Abdulaziz, filed a lawsuit this Sunday before a Court of Tel Aviv against the company’s cyber-security israeli NATIONAL, which sells to government agencies the program Pegasus, who steals information to users of mobile phones and computers. As has informed this Monday in the daily Haaretz, Abdulaziz, friend and confidant of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has denounced through a lawyer in Jerusalem, NSO facilitated the malware Pegasus to “oppressive regimes that violate international law.” It also ensures that the spy software was used to intercept more than 400 messages via WhatsApp that both were exchanged from October 2017 to August of this year, two months before the murder of Khashoggi in your country’s Consulate in Istanbul, on October 2.
Khashoghi: “The arrests are unjustified and do not serve him (says logic), but the tyranny does not have logic. Loves [MBS] the strength, the oppression and you need to show. It is like a beast pac man: the more victims it eats, the more he wants. I do not be surprised that the oppression reaches even those who cheer. God knows”.
Abdulaziz: “mind-Boggling. Is there any possibility that when it is crowned to show leniency?”
Khashoghi: This is what it says in the logic, but since I don’t have faith in it to analyze the mind of this man [MBS].
Another similar lawsuit has already been filed in Israel against the same company of cyber-security for activists of Mexico, whose Government used alleged to the Pegasus for spying on at least 88 critical journalists and human rights defenders. Experts from the University of Toronto found that the telephone Abdulaziz had been jaqueado with the program of espionage, “military-grade” created by NSO and followed a digital trail that led them up to the saudi Government.
The exchange of messages shows that both of them were very critical of the policy of Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and worked for apartarle of power. To do this they planned to create a digital movement —“bees”— among the youth of arabia to counter the propaganda of the MBA in social networks through the profile enTwitter of Khashoggi, who came to tell with over 340,000 followers. Some of these messages on WhatsApp have been reproduced in the web of the channel CNN, has interviewed Abdulaziz on the occasion of the presentation of the claim against NSO.
Abdulaziz: I have sent You a brief idea about the work that would make the Army digital .
Khashoghi: Excellent document. I will try to raise the money. We have to do something. At times I have been [cyber] attacked by them [the israelis]. Hate tweet .
The 27-year-old with a status of asylum seeker politics in Canada since 2014 Omar Abdulaziz poses in a communication the mission of the “Army digital”. Jamal Khashoghi responds satisfied: “I will Try to raise the money. We have to do something. At times I have been [cyber] attacked”. A few weeks later, the exiled acknowledge that their messages have been intercepted by the spying arabia. “Once they heard about Güvenilir Bahis Siteleri the bees, they were really concerned and upset. They arrested many people and raided many places.” “Not tuitees nothing about Canada, nor about the bees”, said Khashoggi, “otherwise I’ll go to jail”.
“[Bin Salman] is like a beast, pac-man [eat coconuts], the more victims it eats, the more he wants. I do not be surprised that the oppression reaches even those who cheer”, ecribió the dissident journalist to contact canadian. “Is there any possibility that when it is crowned to show leniency?”, wondered the young Abulaziz. “This is what it says in the logic”, I pondered aloud Khashoggi, “but since I don’t have faith in it to analyze the mind of this man.” The exiled saudi received the visit of envoys in Riyadh in Canada that he was invited to return to his country, where he suguirieron that reribiría large sums of money. Before I had to go through the saudi Embassy in Ottawa to solve the last formalities.
Abdulaziz : once they heard about the ‘bees’, the officials were really concerned and upset. They arrested many people and raided many places. I took the worst part for taking care of the group and the communication. I’m glad that you’re abroad and safe.
Khashoghi: How do you know about the ‘bees’?
Abdulaziz: I Started to create groups, to work, and I’m sure I left some bangs. Tens of thousands of people have had to be involved in this. Imagine that my brother said to me: ‘Omar, do not tuitees nothing about Canada, nor about the ‘bees”. Otherwise I’ll go to jail.
Khashoghi: That God protects you, you are in Canada, that is the shrine to the aggrieved persons. That God protect you from any stupidity of Gadafis or Qaddafi (Gaddafi as an adjective). Do not discuss the topic of ‘bees’ or on Instagram.
The company’s cybersecurity NSO operates under a license from the Ministry of Defense of Israel, and it relies on the authorization of their Government to sell their products to official agencies of other countries. “We don’t tolerate illegal use of our products”, has secured the signature of israel in a statement, “if there are suspicions, we investigate and take the appropriate measures”. Amnesty International (AI) claimed the 28th of November that it withdraw the export permit for having helped Saudi Arabia to spy on a representative of the NGO humanitarian. AI believes that the approval of the israeli activities of the controversial enterprise of cyber-security are equivalent to “cooperate with the human rights abuses”.
The software infects smart phones by using a virus to access all the information by remote control. Listening to calls, reading messages, tracking the history on the Internet… everything is possible, even operate through the camera and microphone of the terminal. Omar Abdulaziz came to him through a message for you to track the shipping of a package. The cyber security specialist Jaime Blasco, quoted by THE COUNTRY in 2017, acknowledged during the investigation of the spying by the program Pegasus in Mexico that once the program infiltrates into the phone as there is no secure applications, even if they are encrypted: “The attacker has access to everything, no matter if you use WhatsApp or Telegram”.
Abdulaziz: Just wish you a happy health, a greeting and everything good.
Khashoghi : I Hope you are well Omar. That God will hear us and rid us and the nation of this problem [MBS].
The Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto came to the conclusion that the innocent message of on-line monitoring of the shipment of a package had been issued by the intelligence services of saudi arabia, according to the text of the lawsuit filed by the counsel of Jerusalem, Alaa Mahajna, a former adviser to the NGO Adalah, the legal assistance centre for the arab minority in Israel, comprising a fifth of the population of the country.
A recent investigation by the newspaper Haaretz has revealed that Saudi Arabia paid us $ 55 million (48.5 million euros), to be done with the malware Pegasus. United Arab emirates also been used to spy on opponents and dissidents. “We don’t have Parliament, we have only to Twitter”, he lamented Abdulaziz in one of the messages sent to Khashoggi published by CNN. “That is the tool that [the regime] used to spread false rumors. We have been attacked and threatened many times and we have to respond.”
