WEST AFRICA GIANTS IN SCREENING PROFILE


police in 2009 as he tried to escape after being arrested.


has been blamed for bomb attacks against government buildings and churches, predominantly in northern Nigeria.


FISCAN Since Yusuf’s death 2009, Boko Haram has formed


links with AQIM, active in Algeria, and to a lesser extent in Mali and Niger. The head of Nigeria’s armed forces has recently accused AQIM of providing arms and ideological motivation to Boko Haram, thereby increasing


the group’s potency. The group


it is looking to failed Muslim states (such as Somalia and Yemen) to provide it with new centres.


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Since 2009, the group has claimed more than 1000 lives. In January 2012, Boko Haram attacked eight targets in the northern city of Kano, including police stations, and killed more than 185 people, using tactics which bore the hallmark of al-Qaeda – coordinated assaults by suicide bombers and gunmen. With the NATO mission in Afghanistan impacting upon al-Qaeda’s ability to plan attacks from and in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region,


FISCAN is a high-tech company integrating R&D, manufacturing, engineering, training and services. Facing new developments and challenges for the security industry worldwide, FISCAN continuously upgrades its security products and gradually creates a series of comprehensive products, including X-ray machines with different tunnel sizes, both single-view and dual-view, as well as automatic explosive detection systems, container inspection systems, liquid detection equipment, body scanners, walkthrough detectors, and hand-held metal detectors. FISCAN systems have also acquired official approvals/certificates from TSA/FAA Test, CE, UL, Certificate of China National Torch Program, CAAC certificate and IATA Supplier qualification. Since the


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government of Nigeria is failing to exert control over the Muslim population states in its north. Before his death in 2011, Osama Bin Laden described Nigeria as being ripe for ‘liberation’. In March 2012, US Army General Carter Ham, the most senior US military


commander for Africa, warned that al-Shabaab in Somalia, Boko Haram in Nigeria and AQIM were discussing ways to synchronise their training, financing and attacks. General Ham warned that a successful linking of the groups would pose a real challenge. Also in March, a British and an Italian hostage were killed in a failed rescue attempt by the British Special Boat Service elite commando unit and the Nigerian security forces. Christopher McManus and Franco Lamolinara were construction workers who were


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first X-ray machine was installed in Beijing Capital International Airport in 1984, over 15,000 FISCAN X-ray security systems have been deployed in more than 30 countries and regions at airports, seaports, customs, railway stations, highway, governmental departments and many other security-related applications. Based on its own R&D, FISCAN possesses its own intellectual property rights which enable the company to provide a whole set of custom-designed products and security inspection solutions.


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kidnapped from their apartment in Birnin-Kebbi, northwest Nigeria, in May 2011, by a group calling itself al-Qaeda in the land beyond the Sahel. The daylight rescue attempt was, according to intelligence sources, the result of intercepted phone calls in which the group demanded the release of prisoners by the Nigerian government, but kept changing their demands and suggesting the hostages would be killed imminently. West Africa is certainly facing a serious threat from both domestic and international terrorism, particularly extremist al-Qaeda affiliated groups. Unless the countries in the region can establish a strong and effective counterterrorism framework and work in a more co-ordinated way, with the help of international bodies and the West in order to build state capacity and good governance, they may become the new centre of global Islamist extremist militancy.


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