“The Israeli firm to which Snowden referred – NSO Group Technologies – is known for developing the “Pegasus” software which can be used to remotely infect a target’s mobile phone and then relay back data accessed by the device. Although NSO claims that its products “are licensed only to legitimate government agencies for the sole purpose of investigating and preventing crime and terror,” this is not the first time its Pegasus software has been used by Saudi Arabia to track critics.”
"شرکت اسراییلی که اسنودن به آن اشاره کرد - فناوری گروه ان اس او - برای توسعه نرم افزار" پگاسوس"شناخته شده است که می تواند از راه دور یک تلفن همراه را آلوده کند و سپس داده هایی را که توسط دستگاه قابل دسترسی است را رد گیری کند. اگر چه ان اس او ادعا می کند که محصولاتش "فقط برای آژانس های قانونی دولتی مجاز به انجام تحقیق و جلوگیری از جرم / جنایت و تروریسم هستند"، این اولین بار نیست که نرم افزار پگاسوس توسط عربستان سعودی برای ردیابی منتقدان مورد استفاده قرار گرفته است. "
Edward Snowden: Saudi used Israel spyware to target Khashoggi
ادوارد اسنودن: عربستان از نرم افزار جاسوسی اسرائیل برای هدف قرار دادن خاشقچی استفاده کرد
MEM:
US whistle-blower Edward Snowden yesterday claimed that Saudi Arabia used Israeli spyware to target murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
ادوارد اسنودن، افشاگر آمریکایی روز گذشته ادعا کرد که عربستان سعودی از نرم افزارهای جاسوسی اسرائیل برای هدف قرار دادن جمال خاشقچی، روزنامه نگار سعودی،و کشتنش مورد استفاده قرار گرفته است.
Addressing a conference in Tel Aviv via a video link, Snowden claimed that software made by an Israeli cyber intelligence firm was used by Saudi Arabia to track and target Khashoggi in the lead up to his murder on 2 October inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
اسنودن در مشورت کنفرانس با تل آویو از طریق ارتباط ویدئویی، ادعا کرد که نرم افزار ساخته شده توسط یک سازمان اطلاعاتی اسرائیل توسط عربستان سعودی برای پیگیری خاشقچی تا قتل وی در 2 اکتبر در کنسولگری سعودی در استانبول مورد استفاده قرار گرفته است..
Snowden told his audience: “How do they [Saudi Arabia] know what his [Khashoggi’s] plans were and that they needed to act against him? That knowledge came from the technology developed by NSO,” Israeli business daily Globes reported. Snowden accused NSO of “selling a digital burglary tool,” adding it “is not just being used for catching criminals and stopping terrorist attacks, not just for saving lives, but for making money […] such a level of recklessness […] actually starts costing lives,” according to the Jerusalem Post.
اسنودن به مخاطبان خود گفت: "آنها [عربستان سعودی]چگونه می دانستند که برنامه های[خاشقچی] چیست و اینکه آنها باید بر علیه او عمل کنند؟ این دانش از تکنولوژی توسعه یافته توسط ان اس او بدست آمد."بیزینس گلوب روزانه اسرائیل گزارش داد. اسنودن ان اس او را به "فروش یک ابزار سرقت دیجیتالی" متهم کرد و افزود: "فقط برای جلب مجرمان و متوقف کردن حملات تروریستی نیست، نه فقط برای نجات جان استفاده می شود، بلکه برای ساختن پول [...] چنین سطح بی پروایی [...] ، به گفته اورشلیم پست، در واقع شروع میکند به هزینه بردن زندگی .
Snowden – made famous in 2013 for leaking classified National Security Agency (NSA) files and exposing the extent of US surveillance – added that “Israel is routinely at the top of the US’ classified threat list of hackers along with Russia and China […] even though it is an ally”. Snowden is wanted in the US for espionage, so could not travel to Tel Aviv to address the conference in person for fear of being handed over to the authorities.
The Israeli firm to which Snowden referred – NSO Group Technologies – is known for developing the “Pegasus” software which can be used to remotely infect a target’s mobile phone and then relay back data accessed by the device. Although NSO claims that its products “are licensed only to legitimate government agencies for the sole purpose of investigating and preventing crime and terror,” this is not the first time its Pegasus software has been used by Saudi Arabia to track critics.
In October it was revealed that Saudi Arabia used Pegasus software to eavesdrop on 27-year-old Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz, a prominent critic of the Saudi government on social media. The revelation was made by Canadian research group Citizen Lab, which found that the software had been used to hack Abdulaziz’ iPhone between June and August of this year.
A separate report by Citizen Lab in September found a “significant expansion of Pegasus usage in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in the Middle East,” in particular the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Citizen Lab added that in August 2016, Emirati human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor was targeted with the Pegasus spyware.
Snowden’s comments come less than a week after it emerged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the United States to stand by Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman (MBS) in the wake of the Khashoggi case. The revelation was made by the Washington Post, which cited information from US officials familiar with a series of telephone conversations made to Jared Kushner...
Yet while several world leaders have shunned the crown prince, it is thought that Israel would suffer from any decline in Saudi influence in the region in light of its purportedly central role in the upcoming “Deal of the Century”.
How Israel helped murder Jamal Khashoggi
Asa Winstanley:
The worst-case scenario for the regime is that bin Salman – who is effectively ruler of the kingdom – is replaced by another despot from among the thousands of Saudi princes.
Lebanese-American professor and analyst As`ad AbuKhalil has recently been predicting that, should bin Salman start to feel enough pressure from the western establishment
to step down as Crown Prince, to save himself he will embark on a “peace” mission to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.
Saudi Arabia’s ongoing alliance has been evident for some years now. The two regimes are so deeply in bed with each other that the only measure left which the Saudis have not taken is formal diplomatic recognition and exchange of ambassadors.
Should bin Salman indeed head off to the Knesset to prostrate himself in front of his fellow war criminals in Israel, expect all to be forgiven in case of the Khashoggi murder by mainstream politicians and journalists.
And don’t be fooled by the language of Saudi “peace” with Israel either. Such a strategy will be more about the attempted pacification of the Palestinians, than about real peace. The liquidation of the Palestinian cause is the real aim. Thanks to the determination of the Palestinian people themselves, however, that will not happen.
AbuKhalil was the first to predict that an Israeli role in the murder of Khashoggi would be unveiled. Now he has been vindicated.

![Police barricades are seen outside of Consulate General of Saudi Arabia as the waiting continues on the disappearance of Prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Istanbul, Turkey on 18/ October, 2018 [Elif Öztürk/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181018_2_32937675_38217254.jpg?resize=933.5%2C622&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)


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