"'CONFLICT AS ACCESS': A Drop Site News investigation by Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain, ...—expanded in separate coverage focused on #Nigeria—described how #Epstein and Barak’s relationship ran in parallel to commercial efforts tied to #Africa’s conflicts, with Nigeria emerging as a pivotal theater where “counterterror” became a gateway: first into state relationships, then into higher-value #economic terrain like ports, #logistics, and cyber #infrastructure.
Al Jazeera’s feature report, drawing on the same document trail, framed the arrangement as a model in which [#IOF] #intelligence firms marketed tools as “field-proven”—a euphemism for systems deployed against #Palestinians—then positioned them as solutions for Nigeria’s #BokoHaram crisis.
The result is not a single “smoking gun” claim that resolves everything at once, but an increasingly coherent map of methods: use insecurity to open doors; use doors to sell #surveillance; use surveillance relationships to reach #ports, #energy, and state-building projects; and rely on overlapping private and public channels to make the machine run..."
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-nigeria-manhattan-new-epstein-files-expose-israeli-security-footprint-in-africa/
Al Jazeera’s feature report, drawing on the same document trail, framed the arrangement as a model in which [#IOF] #intelligence firms marketed tools as “field-proven”—a euphemism for systems deployed against #Palestinians—then positioned them as solutions for Nigeria’s #BokoHaram crisis.
The result is not a single “smoking gun” claim that resolves everything at once, but an increasingly coherent map of methods: use insecurity to open doors; use doors to sell #surveillance; use surveillance relationships to reach #ports, #energy, and state-building projects; and rely on overlapping private and public channels to make the machine run..."
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-nigeria-manhattan-new-epstein-files-expose-israeli-security-footprint-in-africa/

