Matters

European Centre of Information Policy and Security releases finding on ISIS in
Africa report
In the explosive publication by European Centre of Information Policy and Security (ECIPS) called ISIS
in Africa, last friday, the ECIPS established the ISIS tree as divided into two different trees linking the
ISIS alliance to several African organizations such as Qibla and Boko Haram. The report makes it clear
that our border focuses should not only be on the Syrian epidemic but also urgent attention should
be brought to the African continent particularly travellers from Africa such as South Africa. The reports
deals the presence of radical Islam that can be felt and seen across Africa and the recent development
of the ISIS crises can be seen within Africa with a particular systematic development in South Africa.
“Low cost management” to effectively
implement security measures to
combat problems such as ISIS and the
recent Ebola virus.
The report draws attention to the
ANC that was once label a terrorism
organization and its alliance with
radical Islam. It specifically focuses on
the importance noteworthy notes that
towards the end of 1990, the apartheid
years in South Africa, several small
groups of extremists begun to exploit
the low-intensity urban war situation in
their zealous quest to create an Islamic
state in South Africa. The report refers to
a U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
report stated that leaked during 2004,
and stated: “A new tier of al-Qaeda
leaders is using South Africa as one of
its bases,” with as many as 30 leaders
“thought to be in and around Cape
Town, Durban and the Eastern Cape.
HUMIT research indicates that this
number has since increased according
to the European Centre of Information
Policy and Security (ECIPS).
The official ECIPS report deals with ISIS
development in South Africa and the
conversion of an entire Islamic mosque
that took place on the 5th of September
2014 in Bellville Cape Town Behlair,
where more than 200 Somalians were
incorporated into this ISIS conversion
into radical Islam. An intelligence
report of CIA noted that there are over
600 mosques and over 400 educational
centres in South Africa at present.
ECIPS warns that one of the main part
of the problem dogging an effective
response to the spread of ISIS is the
danger of political correctness and the
problem in understanding the language
of radical Islam. the report writes :
“We could argue and ask what would
an effective strategy be ? Is Obama
doing the right thing to engage only
in airstrikes ? Some might argue yes
and some might argue no. The point is
that ISIS is swaying the position whilst
the US can’t react fearing ISIS sleeping
cells, its own problem closer to home,
to be awakened in the HIVE cell of
ISIS, of which by now, the CIA would
have realized ISIS might have acquired
the knowhow in how to do things
to calculate the probable desirable
outcome. The problem we face is, what
happens when ISIS has learned from
their experiences and pass it on to the
next evolving product that will be born
from ISIS in the future ? “
Indeed a problem for border security
if ISIS has developed such serfisticated
warfare psychology. The President of
ECIPS Ricardo Baretzky, stressed that
our borders need more support and
our security vigilance has to be stepped
up. He said that the EU need greater
budgets for security growth and cant
function on the present, what he called
The ECIPS report dealt with eth
argument that:” some would argue that
ISIS is a logical product of the Islamic
history, “ but the ECIPS denotes that in
practice, ISIS is a political motivated
Ideology using the history of the
Islamic faith to its advantage and that
there are vast differences between the
two perceptions. The ECIPS correctly
points out that it is to be understood
that, if the practical explanation is
correct, then ISIS might have its roots
in an older political blue print similar to
that of any present government.
The report also focuses on development
in Benghazi wherein ECIPS criticise that
the lack of RTI (Real Time Intelligence)
in Benghazi reflects very clear in the
fact that hundreds of battle-hardened
veterans proved crucial in Ansar al-
Sharia’s capture of several parts of
Benghazi. The signalling from ISIS and
the combines lessons learned for other
Islamist groups on the continent, could
not be clearer- align with ISIS and you
are assured of victory ! according to
intelligence interpretation of the ECIPS.
As final note the ECIPS points out the
alarming fact that ISIS HIVE capability
might be underestimated and explains
that whilst the west fights a military war,
ISIS are fighting a Holy War using all
methods such as Military psychological
and Hive warfare combined that knows
no rules !. Thus in short, ISIS /ISIL are
doing just what they were trained to
do, provoke and as their followers gets
in the line of fire, the more they will
stand as one. The importance of this
study is to understand both the mental
administration and the ISIS intelligence
capability deriving in their activities,
and why it spreads like cancer so fast.
For and official copy of the report write
to info@ecips.eu
Border Security Matters
www.borderpol.org page 34