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SCREEN SCREEN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN SWITZERLAND: WATCH WATCH After Nadia Karmous, Qatar abandons Nicolas Blancho fter the Swiss Tariq Ra- founder of the Islamic Central Coun- madan, implicated by cil of Switzerland (ICCS). Following several complainants successful trips to Doha, Nicolas Blan- GEOSTRATEGIC FORSIGHT GEOSTRATEGIC FORSIGHT who accuse him of rape, cho had registered two associations in Qatar recently abandons Berne, Qoranona and Aziz Aid, whose SECURITY MONITORING SECURITY MONITORING ANadia Karmous and Nicolas Blancho. president is Abdukaziz Abdul Rahman COUNTER-TERRORISM COUNTER-TERRORISM The Gas Emirat is apparently making Al-Thani, a member of the qatari ruling RESISTANCE TO EXTREMISM RESISTANCE TO EXTREMISM a serious self-examination. Doha is, family (See our investigation published in fact, forced to separate from many in last September: Screen Watch, n°4) personalities linked to the Muslim Bro- Now, we have just learned that these # 04 - OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2019 therhood who have not failed ideologi- two associations have been removed cally, but whose negative image shocks from the Bern Commercial Register. the country and its sovereign. By the dissolution of these associa- A few weeks ago, in the aftermath tions, Qatar seeks to stand out from a SUMMARY of the publication of the book Qatar character more and more decried. It is Papers, written by Christian Chesnot true that Nicolas Blancho, whose as- 02 EDITORIAL: why ISIS will survive al-Baghdadi’s and Georges Malbrunot, and the do- sociation attracts only 1% of Muslims death cumentary film inspired by this book, in Switzerland (according to his own 02 CONFIDENTIAL: The succession broadcast on Arte, the gas Emirate put figures!), appears less and less credible. of al-Baghdadi confirms AMNI’s control a stop to the megalomania of Nadia The latest controversy in the matter over the leadership of ISIS Karmous, a Swiss woman of Algerian was raised by the revelations of the 03 Benalla wants to create a precedent in origin, who was planning to invest Swiss press about a survival weekend, security and “conflict management”! 20 million euros in a vast real estate reserved for men, organized by the 03 Civil aviation: China and South Korea join project, linked to the Muslim Brothe- ICCS, last September, with training in forces to compete with Airbus and Boeing rhood, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small the handling of ... knife. 03 “Community Lists” in France: the hand of town in the Swiss Jura. However, she However, these revelations fell parti- Qatar? had already acquired the land (See our cularly badly, after the assassination with 04 CONJUNCTURES: France, Iran, Africa, the investigation published in last July: a knife of four policemen within the po- background of international news Screen Watch, n°3). lice headquarters of Paris, on October 3, 07 EXPERTISES: Jerusalem, an election day This time, Qatar is putting an end to by Mickaël Harpon, a computer scientist, By Martine Gozlan the ambitions of Nicolas Blancho, the converted to Islam and radicalized. 08 Counter-terrorism: Facing the “enemy from within” (2/3) By Roland Jacquard CONFIDENTIAL FRANCE 09 The challenges of water management in the Middle East (2/3) By Fabienne Durand The ambassador of Qatar warns Tariq 10 USA - Afghanistan: an explosive case for Ramadan against any revelation about Donald Trump By Christian Malard 11 The Shoah, the journalist and the Jews his ties with the emirate By Jean-Marie Montali 12 The Muslim Brotherhood Ended up letting Ali Bin Jassen Al that Tariq Ramadan had at the Qatar Embassy in down Tariq Ramadan By Ian Hamel Thani, the ambas- requested the assistance of Paris, Ramadan reportedly sador of Qatar to Paris the Qatar Embassy in Pa- reiterated these threats in 13 The brotherhood that silently Islamizing since October 2018, has ris, as part of his campaign front of the ambassador Europe By Hamid Zanaz taken very badly Tariq Ra- to be rehabilitated after the himself. And the latter, on 14 INTERVIEW: Abdul Rahman al-Suwaidi: 35 madan’s threats against the many rape complaints he his turn, warned him of the years in the hell of the Muslim Brotherhood emirate, suggesting that he had been facing for two repercussions that such a (1/2) may reveal to the media years. But the Qatari am- revelation could have for 18 DOCUMENTS: In the secret of the new French his past links with the gas bassador was instructed him and his family still li- intelligence strategy emirate. by his superiors to “stay ving in Doha and strongly 20 PROFILES: Jacques Chirac as I knew him In our last edition quite” on the Ramadan advising him to “no longer By Roland jacquard (Screen Watch, n°4, Sep- case. expose himself to the me- tember 2019), we revealed According to a source dia.” SCREEN WATCH - # 04 - OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2019 1 “COMMUNITY Why ISIS will survive LISTS” Doha covets FRANCE – CHINA: IN FRANCE: Interpol again Establishment of al-Baghdadi’s death the hand a permanent of Qatar? After the controversies According to our sources, raised by Interpol’s in- Qatar has proposed to Inter- “strategic line” triguing removal of the “red pol to finance a major pro- ar from having put an end to ISIS’s existence or even its The Arab Center for Notice” concerning Sheikh gramme for the acquisition Following the visit of French President Em- power of nuisance, the death of its self-proclaimed caliph, Research and Policy Yusuf al-Qaradawi, at a time of electronic equipment, in manuel Macron to China in early November, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - killed on last October 27, during Studies (CAREP) is the when Interpol was receiving order to strengthen the work Paris and Beijing decided to set up a permanent main Qatari think tank. It major donations from Qatar of its department dedicated “strategic line” to discuss major international an operation by American special forces in northern Sy- is chaired by Azmi Bisha- (see Screen Watch, No. 2, to the fight against cyber- issues and conflicts. ria - will accelerate two trends in the making for several ra, one of Amir Tamim June-July 2019), Doha is crime. In return, Doha has EDITORIAL months, within the new Jihadist International: the first is Ben Hamad al-Thani’s once again trying to covet the requested to host the head- structural, the second one is operational. most influential advisors. international police organi- quarters of the Middle East Having lost control of the vast Syrian-Iraqi strongholds And the presidency of the zation. branch of this department. Benalla wants to over which it had established an Islamic proto-state, ISIS was forced to give Paris branch of CAREP is create a precedent in Fup its dream of restoring the caliphate. And to survive, it had to undergo a entrusted to the Islamologist François Burgat, known fundamental structural transformation. The exact opposite of the one that security and “conflict for his sympathetic Muslim The conquest of space, CONFIDENTIAL saw it transform, in the summer of 2014, from an underground terrorist Brotherhood. management”! group, like so many others in the Salafi-Jihadist sphere, into a new form On October 18, during a the Saudi Crown Prince’s of “terrorist state” imposing his dictatorship on a population of more than debate at CAREP’s Pa- The former Elysee security guard, 8 million people, on an immense territory embracing about 40% of Iraq’s ris headquarters, Burgat new ambition Alexandre Benalla (see Screen Watch, N°2, area and over 30% of Syria’s. denounced the “French June-July 2019), has created a security box to As the bases of this proto-State had been crushed, under the crossfire of posture in the face of radica- Saudi Arabia has submitted an ambitious space coope- provide training, particularly in the fields of the international coalition, Kurdish forces and the Syrian army supported lization”, considering that ration project to France. The Crown Prince, Mohamed airport security and interventions in conflict “the score that the National Ben Salman, wants to rely on the expertise of the French space zones. by its Russian and Iranian allies, ISIS was forced to return to clandestinity, Rally plays to us on the drum, agency and the Ariane programme to launch his own agency, According to our sources, this company, ATMANE TAZAGHART ATMANE thus resuming the classic modus operandi of jihadist terrorist groups. the right plays to us on the which will be called the Saudi Space Agency. It will be led by called Comyia, has already signed contracts in By For apparent security reasons, this trend will intensify further saxophone and the left on one of the Prince’s brothers, Sultan Ben Salman, who is an China and Africa, namely in Chad. It also has after al-Baghdadi’s death. And from this structural muta- the flute”. And to deal with astronaut by training. plans in the United States. tion - similar to that carried out by Al-Qaeda in 2001 in- what he considers to be a the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11 - will come another “process of criminalizing the operational mutation: for a long time, ISIS leaned Muslim population”, Burgat CIVIL AVIATION: recommends that Muslims Qatar invests against the aura provided by its proto-State presented in France “beat the ballot China and South Korea heavily in oil and as the restoration of the caliphate to provoke, from box. You have to hit where a distance, spontaneous jihadist vocations, which it hurts”. And since there join forces to compete diamonds in Angola some were quick to designate as “solitary wolves”. are six million Muslims However, this spontaneous influx quickly dried up, in France, the author of with Airbus and Boeing As part of the Doha strategy to strengthen its following the military disappointments afflicting the so- Understanding Political Islam economic and political influence in Africa (see called caliphate, in the very heart of its Syrian-Iraqi stron- considers that “the balance China has initiated secret talks with South Korea with a Screen Watch, No.