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A US spy agency says it contacted the Ramblas killer on July 31
Spies of the Exeintel Group, working on Intelligence Security contracted by the US secret service, claim they gave an international "Red Alert" after posing as jihadists and tricking Younes Abouyaaqoub, who revealed that they were "5 brothers", were " In Spain "led by" a magnet "and were going to" attack several small towns "
CARLOS ENRIQUE BAYO / PATRICIA LÓPEZ
The murderer of the 14 people who ran down on the Ramblas with a van, 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub, fell two weeks earlier in a US spy ring, whose agents - posing as jihadists - entrusted them via WhatsApp Part of a terrorist command "in Spain" and were preparing to commit several attacks, according to the website of the private intelligence agency Exeintel.
US spies belonging to the Exeintel Group Intelligence Service (EGIS) based in Washington, DC, were conducting "cyber-intelligence and anti-terrorist surveillance online, when a significant talk took place on Monday, July 31, 2017 EXEINTEL to immediately share critical intelligence with authorities in Europe and the United States, "according to the spy agency.
Private intelligence agencies are quite common in the US, where the secret services have outsourced many of their functions and rely on the (well-paid) collaboration of companies engaging in espionage on demand, such as Stratfor: the CIA in the shadow that unmasked Wikileaks .
Exeintel has also made public some of the screenshots of its alleged conversation with the terrorist via instant messaging, although bypassing some parts of the "Red Alert" they claim they sent to the secret services "just to protect sources, methods and intelligence in Process, as well as the safety and operations of official international investigations. "
"EXEINTEL says it found that this particular suspect showed key signs of support for the jihadist ideology," according to the private intelligence company on its website. "Here is the conversation between the suspect and the intelligence agents":
