AGT International uses Israeli software in Arab Nations security systems: May 2013

Friday 31 May 2013

undeniable proof

www.haaretz.com: when is the UAE govt and other arab nations going to deal with this
The Swiss-based multinational company Asia Global Technologies (AGT) has won contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars for two major domestic security projects in one of the Persian Gulf emirates. News of the tender award appeared in March in the Persian Gulf business newsletter Zawya. According to the report, AGT won government contracts to carry out two major projects with the armed forces. The article noted that the agreements were for the provision of homeland security technology along the country's borders and at strategic offshore sites (oil wells).
The field of "homeland security" comprises integrated security, intelligence and border defense systems as well as command and control systems.
The report quotes Gary Lenz, calling him a "senior representative" of AGT. But in the biography distributed at a 2007 industry conference in Singapore, Kochavi is described as AGT's "founder and CEO." He is also described as the chairman of Sentry Technology Group, "one of the fastest growing security companies in the United States."
STG has partnered with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in the sale of airport security knowledge, equipment and technology in the United States and other countries, including in the Middle East. A source in IAI has said that a few months ago, because of disagreements, the company's partnership with Kochavi was terminated. STG recently paid tens of millions of dollars to Ness Technologies for a division that develops command and control systems.
Former Israel Air Force commander Major General (res.) Eitan Ben Eliyahu worked for STG at one point. He told Haaretz, "I left the company several years ago and have not had any connection to since it began operating beyond the borders of the U.S."
However, Kochavi's companies employ dozens of former Israel Defense Forces officers, as well as former Mossad and Shin Bet security service officials.
Stepping up activities
Logic, another of Kochavi's companies, is based in Herzliya. Its employees include a retired IDF major general, a retired Armored Corps brigadier general and D., formerly a senior Shin Bet official. Until recently Kochavi also employed senior IAI and Elbit Systems personnel. A spokesman for Kochavi said in response: "All of activities are carried out in coordination with and under the guidance of the Defense Ministry and all its divisions."
Mati Kochavi is a former Israeli who lives in the United States and who made his fortune in real estate. Several years ago he became involved in the homeland security field, and this involvement increased after the September 11 attacks in 2001. He forged contacts within Israel's military establishment and began hiring high-ranking former officials in the field. A number of years ago he promised to establish a prestigious university on the Israeli-Jordanian border to promote bilateral relations. The initiative has not progressed since it was announced.
Around a dozen Israeli companies have in recent years stepped up their activities in Arab or Muslim states, including ones that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel. These firms include Radom Aviation Systems, which installs systems in aircraft and whose chairman is former National Security Council head Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland); BlueBird Aero Systems, which manufactures Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, in which Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog is a partner). Also on this list are IAI and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, which are under the control of the Defense Ministry. The total investment by Israelis in such projects exceeds $100 million.
Former Mossad, Shin Bet and IDF personnel conduct training in operating advanced security systems and intelligence equipment and also train locals in averting coups, hostage-taking or attempts to occupy strategic targets.
This extensive activity is puzzling on many levels. Last week it was reported that the defense establishment and the Counter-terrorist Unit warned former senior IDF, Shin Bet and Mossad personnel not to visit certain Arab countries for fear of kidnapping attempts Hezbollah or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, in revenge for the assassination of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus in February. Haaretz reported that one of the individuals warned was a major general in the reserves, the publication of whose name was prohibited by the censor. The officer in question has claimed that he has never visited the Arab country implied. According to him, neither he nor other former defense officials, nor his current work colleagues, received such warnings.
The reports underline the paradox of the military establishment's conduct. On the one hand it encourages the defense industry to export Israeli security equipment and weapons, including to Arab states, especially pro-American ones that could be under the Iranian threat.
To increase exports these companies must maintain relations with and send representatives to these states. On the other hand these visits and relations can facilitate Hezbollah efforts to abduct Israelis, as in the case of Elhanan Tenenbaum who was lured into going to Abu Dhabi and abducted from it. Some of the emirates, particularly Abu Dhabi, have a significant representation of Iranian companies, some of which are fronts for the IRGC and Iranian intelligence.

Wednesday 29 May 2013

The Israeli businessman most active in Abu Dhabi is Mati Kochavi, owner of the Swiss-registered company AGT, which sold the emirates surveillance cameras, electronic fences and sensors to monitor strategic infrastructure and oil fields."

From www.spacewar.com
Emirates 'has security links with Israel'by Staff WritersAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Jan 27, 2012

The United Arab Emirates, an economic giant and rising military power in the Persian Gulf, is reported to have discreet ties with private security companies in Israel to protect its oil fields and borders. The Intelligence Online Web site reports that the country's Critical National Infrastructure Authority has had business dealings with several Israeli firms since it was established in 2007, even though the emirates has no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. "Trade between the two countries, principally in the area of security, amounted to nearly $300 million last year," Intelligence Online reported Jan. 12. CNIA is based in Abu Dhabi, the main oil-rich emirate in the federation. It's the capital of the United Arab Emirates and handles the federation's military and security affairs. "The Israeli businessman most active in Abu Dhabi is Mati Kochavi, owner of the Swiss-registered company AGT, which sold the emirates surveillance cameras, electronic fences and sensors to monitor strategic infrastructure and oil fields." That contract was reportedly worth $800 million. But these ties may be threatened because of a dispute between Abu Dhabi and Israel's Aeronautics Defense Systems, founded in 1997 and which has been involved in several international arms scandals in recent years. This centers on a 2011 deal between CNIA and ADS under which the Israeli outfit would sell the infrastructure authority combat-capable unmanned aerial vehicles like those used against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. But the deal turned sour when it was found that ADS had failed to secure approval from the Israeli Defense Ministry's military sales division, known as SIBAT, to export the UAVs to an Arab state. The dispute has "infuriated the emirate, which had paid a $70 million advance on the contract," Intelligence Online reported. "Fearing irreparable consequences for its relations with Abu Dhabi, the Israeli Defense Ministry is trying to come up with a solution." Intelligence Online said Israel's ImageSat satellite operator has had a Satellite Operating Partner contract since 2006 with the emirates' Space Reconnaissance Center to provide it with program access to the Israeli firm's Eros B commercial satellite launched in April 2006. The emirates is developing its own satellite program, with an eye to acquiring surveillance craft capable of spying on gulf rival Iran. ADS is headed by Avi Leumi, a former officer in Israel's Military Intelligence who has secured contracts with Russia and Azerbaijan, a Muslim state and former Soviet republic on Iran's northern border where Israel has established deep intelligence and military ties over the last decade. Intelligence Online reported several defense and security concerns such as France's CS Systems, which supplied the emirates' military command and control system, and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. "are hoping to benefit from the Israeli group's woes." EADS, with headquarters in Leiden, the Netherlands, comprises Aerospatiale-Matra of France, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace of Germany and Construcciones Aeronauticas of Spain. The emirates' judicious ties to Israel's security industry, which operates in close proximity to the country's secretive security establishment, have emerged despite decades of Arab-Israeli hostility. Kovachi's AGT, like many of Israel's private security companies, employs retired military generals and other senior officers who have access to the Defense Ministry. Among Kovachi's consultants is Maj. Gen. Amos Malka, who headed Israel's Military Intelligence from 1998-2001. Since the 1993-94 Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel has established discreet diplomatic and trade ties with several gulf monarchies. They have also found a common adversary in Iran, whose expansionist policies and contentious nuclear program are viewed as a major threat by the Arab states in the gulf and by Israel. The Jewish state's circumspect ties to the emirates were badly jolted when Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior leader of the Hamas Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip, was assassinated in Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, Jan. 19, 2010. Dubai police blamed Israel for the killing. Bahrain, Oman and Qatar have all been reported in recent years to have conducted secret talks with Israel. Indeed, their intelligence chiefs have reportedly met several times to discuss the Iranian threat. Last May, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly met secretly with Qatar's premier, Sheik Hamas bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani, in London and discussed the possibility of buying Qatari natural gas.

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Friday 24 May 2013

More open source evidence of Israeli's operating the UAE Critical National Infrastrusture Agency

Taken from Geostrategique.net. Highlighted in red. The Israeli ex Mossad agent carrying Brazillian passports are affectionally called the 'mexicans'.The fact is the Wayne Hull, Wendy Weckstrom, Andy Williams, Doug Hassel and Enrique Leonardi (fired from his previois employer NSN for corruption and Fraud) are representing this AGT and its many shelf companies here in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Worried about the Iranian threat, the United Arab Emirates do not hesitate to call on Israeli technology to secure their borders and oil wells.

In the desert, the ocher wall that marks the border with Oman seems harmless to both onlookers discussing near post Hilli. They are far from imagining that it was built largely with technology from Israel, a country with which their emirate does not have diplomatic relations. If one of them touched "this smart wall" full of sensors, hidden cameras would record his every gesture, facial features, and these data are immediately transferred to the files of the intelligence services and the police . But more importantly, they immediately trigger an intervention by security forces, an advantage that was missing, for example, cameras that filmed the terrorists who struck the London Underground in 2005.
This latest technology has been supplied by AGT (Asia Global Technologies), one of the most successful companies in the global security market. In recent years, AGT has won a lucrative contract of $ 3 billion for border protection Abu Dhabi and five oil sites in the emirate, the only Arab country to dare to develop as sensitive dealings with Israel .

Officially, AGT has two seats (Zurich, Abu Dhabi) and several subsidiaries worldwide. But the nebula is actually directed by Mati Kochavi, an Israeli living in the United States, the key man "business secret" between the Jewish state and Abu Dhabi, alongside the old "dove" Yossi Beilin, converted in asset manager in the Gulf, and the Friends of Abraham, which includes Jewish American businessmen and UAE. After rich in real estate, Kochavi embarked on the security market in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. "He then began to recruit IDF generals and senior Mossad in retirement, including General Amos Malka, head of Aman, Israel's military intelligence from 1998 to 2001," said Israeli journalist Yossi Melman.
"We are pragmatic"

"It's true, we are not too fussed about the origin of our suppliers," says an official UAE, who wishes to remain anonymous. "We have a priority to acquire the very best to defend our territory. We are pragmatic. We have money. We are looking for anyone who can give us a protection system integrated and able to be updated regularly once. "And in this area, the Israeli industry is at the forefront, particularly in terms of drones, the unmanned aircraft Abu Dhabi is provided to protect its oil wells, and its future nuclear power plant, the first in the Arabian Peninsula. "This is not a concept that we sell the Israelis, but operational equipment," says the UAE responsible.

On the shores of the Persian Gulf, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems very distant. "The UAE does not really have any resentment towards Israel," says, in turn, Khatter Massaad, financial adviser to the leader of the neighboring emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, which has already received offers of 'Israeli businessmen also hold U.S. or British passports. Last year, shortly after the murder operation launched by the IDF against Hamas in Gaza, Abu Dhabi would not hesitate to buy two advanced warning aircraft at the company Radom Aviation Systems in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv. Equipped with listening station, these devices can intercept communications within the territorial waters of the Gulf, where Iran occupies three islands belonging to the UAE (Abu Musa, Little and Big Tomb). "This is the common Iranian threat brings the UAE to bring Israel", says a Western diplomat.
"Mexicans"
Just as an Iranian response on its oil installations if Western bombing against Tehran's nuclear sites, the UAE fear the Shiite penetration on their territory. In the spring, Abu Dhabi returned forty Lebanese suspected of financing Hezbollah, one armed arm of Iran in the Middle East. To counter this threat broadcasts from the other side of the Gulf, Abu Dhabi has granted France the right to establish a military base, but it has also embarked on an ambitious "program of original image information" , where there are Israeli interests. Last year, his "Space Reconnaissance Center" concluded an agreement with the private operator ImageSat Israeli satellites, allowing him access to satellite images Eros B. The information published in the U.S. journal Defense News, was denied by the United Arab Emirates. This does not prevent experts to ensure that Abu Dhabi has in fact since 2006 a partnership agreement to access directly and at its discretion, to satellite programming Eros A Image Sat. Objective: Monitoring the UAE territory and waters of the Gulf, where Iran might choose to retaliate.
"We invest heavily in early warning systems," says General Khaled al Bu-Ainnain, former head of the air force. "For us it is a matter of survival. Look what happened in Kuwait in 1990, he added. He was not such a warning system, and one morning woke Kuwaitis with the Iraqi army controlling the intersections of their capital. "

Israelis in the UAE? A secret to CNIA, the institution responsible for the protection of sensitive sites, where they are called, probably by exotic, "the Mexicans." "I've seen," says a French visitor. If necessary, Royal Jet, the company ruling sheikhs of Abu Dhabi, will deliver the VIP, incognito of course. As Israeli intermediaries were warned by the Jewish state risks abduction by Hezbollah or the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who storefront, through front companies.
"Local authorities have asked us not to communicate," says, for its part, Advanced Integrated System (AIS), a subsidiary of AGT, which keeps it as a low profile on its sensitive activities. In recent weeks, AIS failed to win a tender for the equipment of a command center operations, common to the three armies of the Emirates. Another setback for "Mexicans," the agreement of $ 3 billion on border protection is currently being renegotiated. "AGT had overstated the risks, says a foreign consultant CNIA. Emiratis want to lower the price. "
The Mabhouh case

Is there a chill between Abu Dhabi and its Israeli partners? The assassination by Mossad, in late January, the Hamas leader in Dubai has left traces. "The Israelis do not have to come here to settle scores with their enemies, rebels General Al Bu-Ainnain. They crossed a red line. "Others, however, doubt that the Mabhouh affair lasting effect on their occult relations with the Jewish state. "The UAE compartmentalize, provides foreign consultant CNIA. Police publicized the survey to show that she could not let Dubai become open arms dealers or trafficking suitcases filled with cash instead. But on the merits, this case will not change their relationship with the Israelis. They need them. "Maybe not at any price. "What is their logic?, Questioned the official UAE. The Israelis want to open offices commercial interest here. They seek to establish confidence-building measures with the Arab world. But how can we trust them if they commit crimes? "
Abu Dhabi-based and led by the French, Hélène PELOSSE, the International Agency for Renewable Energy is the Israelis in the Gulf "the official front door." Launched last year, Irena now has 140 members, including the Jewish state. For the first time in January, an Israeli minister Uzi Landau, head of National Infrastructures, went to Abu Dhabi. "This does not amount to a normalization," clarified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after a visit enamelled light incidents. In his broadcast, local television "trappa" the Israeli delegation. In the lobby of their hotel, its members refused to remove their badges, hit the Star of David. These glitches do not, however, question the next step in the integration process: the opening of a permanent Israeli representative to the Irena.

Thanks to Irena and its civil nuclear power, Abu Dhabi wants to exist. But "diplomacy, warns a Western economist, still based on the idea that we should create a positive relationship with everyone, if possible by the trade." So pioneers or "traitors" to the Arab cause? "It matters little to them. "

Sunday 19 May 2013

Kovachi's AGT, like many of Israel's private security companies, employs retired military generals and other senior officers who have access to the Defense Ministry. Among Kovachi's consultants is Maj. Gen. Amos Malka, who headed Israel's Military Intelligence from 1998-2001.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The United Arab Emirates, an economic giant and rising military power in the Persian Gulf, is reported to have discreet ties with private security companies in Israel to protect its oil fields and borders.

The Intelligence Online Web site reports that the country's Critical National Infrastructure Authority has had business dealings with several Israeli firms since it was established in 2007, even though the emirates has no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

"Trade between the two countries, principally in the area of security, amounted to nearly $300 million last year," Intelligence Online reported Jan. 12.

CNIA is based in Abu Dhabi, the main oil-rich emirate in the federation. It's the capital of the United Arab Emirates and handles the federation's military and security affairs.

"The Israeli businessman most active in Abu Dhabi is Mati Kochavi, owner of the Swiss-registered company AGT, which sold the emirates surveillance cameras, electronic fences and sensors to monitor strategic infrastructure and oil fields."

That contract was reportedly worth $800 million.

But these ties may be threatened because of a dispute between Abu Dhabi and Israel's Aeronautics Defense Systems, founded in 1997 and which has been involved in several international arms scandals in recent years.

This centers on a 2011 deal between CNIA and ADS under which the Israeli outfit would sell the infrastructure authority combat-capable unmanned aerial vehicles like those used against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

But the deal turned sour when it was found that ADS had failed to secure approval from the Israeli Defense Ministry's military sales division, known as SIBAT, to export the UAVs to an Arab state. The dispute has "infuriated the emirate, which had paid a $70 million advance on the contract," Intelligence Online reported.

"Fearing irreparable consequences for its relations with Abu Dhabi, the Israeli Defense Ministry is trying to come up with a solution."

Intelligence Online said Israel's ImageSat satellite operator has had a Satellite Operating Partner contract since 2006 with the emirates' Space Reconnaissance Center to provide it with program access to the Israeli firm's Eros B commercial satellite launched in April 2006.

The emirates is developing its own satellite program, with an eye to acquiring surveillance craft capable of spying on gulf rival Iran.

ADS is headed by Avi Leumi, a former officer in Israel's Military Intelligence who has secured contracts with Russia and Azerbaijan, a Muslim state and former Soviet republic on Iran's northern border where Israel has established deep intelligence and military ties over the last decade.

Intelligence Online reported several defense and security concerns such as France's CS Systems, which supplied the emirates' military command and control system, and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. "are hoping to benefit from the Israeli group's woes."

EADS, with headquarters in Leiden, the Netherlands, comprises Aerospatiale-Matra of France, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace of Germany and Construcciones Aeronauticas of Spain.

The emirates' judicious ties to Israel's security industry, which operates in close proximity to the country's secretive security establishment, have emerged despite decades of Arab-Israeli hostility.

Kovachi's AGT, like many of Israel's private security companies, employs retired military generals and other senior officers who have access to the Defense Ministry. Among Kovachi's consultants is Maj. Gen. Amos Malka, who headed Israel's Military Intelligence from 1998-2001.
Since the 1993-94 Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel has established discreet diplomatic and trade ties with several gulf monarchies.

They have also found a common adversary in Iran, whose expansionist policies and contentious nuclear program are viewed as a major threat by the Arab states in the gulf and by Israel.

The Jewish state's circumspect ties to the emirates were badly jolted when Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior leader of the Hamas Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip, was assassinated in Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, Jan. 19, 2010. Dubai police blamed Israel for the killing.

Bahrain, Oman and Qatar have all been reported in recent years to have conducted secret talks with Israel. Indeed, their intelligence chiefs have reportedly met several times to discuss the Iranian threat.

Last May, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly met secretly with Qatar's premier, Sheik Hamas bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani, in London and discussed the possibility of buying Qatari natural gas.

Saturday 18 May 2013

The open source evidence is clear. Abu Dhabi security is run by Israel

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 27 (UPI) — The United Arab Emirates, an economic giant and rising military power in the Persian Gulf, is reported to have discreet ties with private security companies in Israel to protect its oil fields and borders.
The Intelligence Online Web site reports that the country’s Critical National Infrastructure Authority has had business dealings with several Israeli firms since it was established in 2007, even though the emirates has no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.
“Trade between the two countries, principally in the area of security, amounted to nearly $300 million last year,” Intelligence Online reported Jan. 12.
CNIA is based in Abu Dhabi, the main oil-rich emirate in the federation. It’s the capital of the United Arab Emirates and handles the federation’s military and security affairs.
“The Israeli businessman most active in Abu Dhabi is Mati Kochavi, owner of the Swiss-registered company AGT, which sold the emirates surveillance cameras, electronic fences and sensors to monitor strategic infrastructure and oil fields.”
That contract was reportedly worth $800 million.
But these ties may be threatened because of a dispute between Abu Dhabi and Israel’s Aeronautics Defense Systems, founded in 1997 and which has been involved in several international arms scandals in recent years.

Friday 17 May 2013

open source evidence mounts

Extracts from blog
many nations in the Middle East. In fact, Israeli companies have also struck major deals with the UAE to strengthen their security facilities. One such firm is Asia Global Technologies, with offices in Zurich and Abu Dhabi. Founded by Mati Kochavi, a US-based Israeli who made a fortune in real estate before diversifying into security after September 11, the company also has a management team made up of retired Israeli generals and Mossad agents, according to a recent article in Le Figaro. AGT has built a series of “smart” security walls—equipped with sensors, facial recognition software, and other advanced technology—to protect fifteen oil installations in the UAE and the Emirates’ border with Oman. The reported price tag: $3 billion. Abu Dhabi also acquired, according to Le Figaro, two surveillance aircraft from Radom Aviation Systems in Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, apparently to allow it to eavesdrop on communications on three islands seized by Iran in the Persian Gulf.

Wednesday 15 May 2013

more open source evidence

now we find another shelf company 4D security solutions
NYC borrows from Israelis to protect airports
Unique high-tech system by firm that 'arose from the ashes of 9-11'
Posted: May 05, 2006
1:00 am Eastern
Nearly five years after the 9-11 attacks, New York City-area authorities are turning to terrorist-tested Israeli technology to protect the region's four major airports.
The new system – to be implemented for the first time in the U.S. – employs a sophisticated "brain" that fuses data from cameras, sensors and radars into one display, enabling security personnel to make quick decisions amid a potential threat.
The small American company providing major elements of the system, 4D Security Solutions, "arose from the ashes of 9-11," said its chairman, Mati Kochavi, an Israeli citizen.
"Our company is waking up talking about homeland security and going to bed thinking about homeland security," Kochavi told WorldNetDaily.
Just two years old, the New York City-based firm is built on the assumption that big defense companies are not as well equipped to react to the new realities since 9-11 – a world of state-backed professional terrorists with more advanced methods, he said.
The Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, or PIDS, is expected to be fully in place within two years at four major airports run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey – John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty and Teterboro.
A spokesman for the Port Authority did not respond to WND's request for comment.
Mati Kochavi
4D Security Solutions will be the major subsystem provider in a team led by Raytheon. Other companies involved are Intergraph Corporation, Mass Electric Construction Company, AMSEC, Louis Berger and Goshow Architects.
About 90 percent of the technology for 4D's system is from Israel, said Kochavi, noting that where terrorist threats are the highest around the world, authorities come to the Israelis for ideas.
"What is special is we have a field-proven technology," he said. "You can find it working in Israel at borders, airports and military installations."
Kochavi explained the system, which enables cameras and various sensors to "talk to each other" and form one readable picture for security personnel, creates a virtual fence.
With "smart sensors" buried underground or underwater, the system can immediately alert security at an onsite command center with audio and visual alarms. The smart sensors direct a host of cameras to focus on the intruder's location so security personnel can identify it on a display.
Kochavi said he could not talk about the cost of the system, but, according to Aviation Today, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey awarded the Raytheon-led team a two-year, $102 million contract to design, develop and deploy the system at the four airports.
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