April 2010
FBI BRIEFING: Anthrax-Hoax Letters Sent to White...
FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TO GCIS INTELCENTER: 30 APRIL 2010 3:32PM PST SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that a federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment charging Timothy Cloud, 62, a transient generally from Roseville and San Francisco, with four counts of hoax mailings, four counts of mailing threatening communications, one count...
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Mob Of Villagers In...
30 APRIL 2010 2:30PM PST GCIS INTELLIGENCE REPORT - The brutal killing of a suspected murderer by angry residents of the town has shocked the citizens of Lebanon. Mohammed Muslem, was a 38-year-old Egyptian working as a butcher in the village of Ketermaya. He was accused of killing an elderly couple and their two granddaughters, aged 7 and 9. Muslem was questioned and confessed to the...
GCIS ART PROTECTION BRIEFING: Fakes and Forgeries...
ISSUED BY: GCIS ART PROTECTION UNIT FROM: MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK
30 APRIL 2010 2:27PM PST The exhibition of art fakes and forgeries has increased exponentially in recent years. For example, this past February, the Victoria and Albert Museum in partnership with the Metropolitan Police organized an exhibit on the investigation of fakes and forgeries. Also, this past winter, the...
IPT BRIEFING: Arrested Development for the Damra...
FROM THE INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM TO GCIS INTELCENTER: 30 APRIL 2010 2:24PM PST by IPT News • Fawaz and Fayez Damra are Palestinian brothers who made their way to America as young men during the 1980s, became naturalized U.S. citizens and set about making new lives in their new homeland. Fawaz Damra became a man of the cloth, a Muslim cleric who ultimately was the imam...
FBI BRIEFING: MISSING PERSON UPDATE
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: U.S. Officials Say...
30 APRIL 2010 12:44AM PST GCIS INTELLIGENCE REPORT - Hezbollah is believed to have improved its military arsenal of missiles. Defense experts warn that the group has more rockets and missiles than most governments. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is accusing Syria and Iran of supplying the technologically advanced weapons to the military wing of the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement. With...
FBI BRIEFING: MURDERS UPDATE
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Chinese Focus On...
30 APRIL 2010 10:15AM PST GCIS INTELLIGENCE REPORT - China is putting a major focus on submarines which have no peacetime purposes said a defense expert on Friday, noting, on the other hand, aircraft carriers are perfect tools for peaceful purposes but submarines are for military purposes. “It concerns me to see China going for these submarines,” said Robert D. Kaplan, senior fellow at the...
GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM BREIEFING (ALERT): Hunt for...
TNN, Apr 30, 2010 9:39AM PST GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING - - Anti-terror police units are on a desperate hunt to track down Indian Mujahideen hideouts and neutralise sleeper cells said to be preparing for a major attack in the city. Intelligence inputs on the ‘imminent threat’ and a group of IM operatives sneaking into Bengal have sent the administration into battle mode. There have been...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE REPORT (Middle East...
30 APRIL 2010 9:27AM PST by Maayana Miskin A7 NEWS - Israel has begun turning down Turkey’s requests to buy certain advanced weapons, according to the military news and analysis sites Jane’s Defense Weekly and DEBKAfile. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan has made scathingly anti-Israel remarks, and has drawn closer to Syria and Iran. According to the report, the...
A FEDHEALTH DISASTER BRIEFING: Landslide Kills 10...
30 APRIL 2010 9:18AM PST
FEDHEALTH REPORT - A landslide in western Kenya on Friday killed 10 people Friday. More are feared buried after relentless heavy rains. Rescuers were searching for more bodies after residents reported missing relatives in the mudslide in Kitony village, the Kenya Red Cross said. Weather patterns across east Africa are responsible for the wild storms that have...
CI CENTER BRIEFING: A REPORT ON PRISON JIHADISTS
ISSUED BY: GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM CENTER FROM: CI CENTER 30 APRIL 2010 9:11AM PST CI CENTER REPORT - New extremists are being created in our prisons, the very institution meant to deter crime. Two stories recently broke about people who converted to Islam in prison that acted in violent compliance with their new ideology. The media, for the most part, dropped the stories, leaving...
A SPECIAL ALERT: Now You Can Help Stop Pedophiles...
ATLANTA — April 30, 2010 — Today, Internet Predator Tracker LLC, announces the release of its Microsoft Outlook plug-in which allows anyone to report pedophiles and predators that have contacted them via email. This is the first software of its kind that allows anyone using Microsoft Outlook to be able to report an email from a suspected pedophile or suspected predator which...
FBI BRIEFING: KUJTIM LIKA Wanted for CONSPIRACY...
CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE NARCOTICS KUJTIM LIKA Aliases: Kujtim Tika, Timmy Lika, “Timmy” DESCRIPTION Date of Birth Used: November 11, 1964 Hair: Brown (May be shaved) Place of Birth: Albania Eyes: Brown Height: 5’6” Sex: Male Weight: 185 pounds Race: White NCIC: W366127856 Nationality: Albanian Occupation:...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING (SPECIAL REPORT): Will...
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Elias Youssef Bejjani
30 APRIL 2010 6:43AM PST Since the early eighties the United States, the free world, and Arab world have sadly been exhibiting a pathetic stance and laissez-faire leadership role regarding Hezbollah, the Terrorist Islamic Jihad organization. Meanwhile, they all recognize the fact that it is more dangerous and much...
GCIS ART PROTECTION BRIEFING: Bulgaria Anti-Mafia...
ISSUED BY : GCIS ART PROTECTION UNIT FROM: MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK
30 APRIL 2010 6:42AM PST Bulgaria’s Unit for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP) has broken up an antique smuggling ring Friday after raids targeted addresses in Sofia and Nova Zagora. In the Sofia region the anti-mafia police discovererd 2 ancient ceramic vessels, 9 Roman coins and other bronze and silver antiques as...
FBI BRIEFING: Defendant Sentenced to Prison for...
FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: 30 APRIL 2010 6:37AM PST U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol Agent Robert W. Rosas, Jr. was Killed While on Routine Duty on the U.S. - Mexico Border in July 2009 SAN DIEGO—Christian Daniel Castro-Alvarez, 17, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge M. James Lorenz to serve 480 months in federal prison based on his guilty plea in the...
U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING: Official...
30 APRIL 2010 6:31AM PST By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON – Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell yesterday credited the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower for its disciplined response last week when an Iranian military aircraft flew within 1,000 yards of it in the Gulf of Oman. An Iranian navy maritime patrol aircraft flew near the carrier April 21...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: U.S. Prosecutors Eye...
30 APRIL 2010 6:28AM PST GCIS INELLIGENCE REPORT - The lawyer representing Omar Khadr– the only western prisoner still in Guantanamo Bay – disclosed Thursday that U.S. prosecutors are eying 25 to 40 years of imprisonment for the 23-year old half-Canadian, half-Afghan. Lawyer Barry Coburn said the long jail term would still be hinged on Khadr’s admission that he lobbed the grenade that...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: India Joins Elite...
29 APRIL 2010 1:48PM PST GCIS INTELLIGENCE REPORT - It was a red letter day for the Indian Navy, armed forces and the ship-building industry of the country on Thursday, as India commissioned its first indigenously-built stealth warship. The warship has sophisticated features that make it able to hoodwink enemy radar. The vessel makes India the eighth nation in the world with stealth...
NASA BRIEFING: Ring of Fire (Issued to the GCIS...
FROM NASA TO THE GCIS SPACE SECURITY CENTER:
28 APRIL 2010 12:00PM PST
Ring of Fire
This new image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) shows in great detail a solar prominence taken from a March 30, 2010 eruption. The twisting motion of the material is the most noticeable feature. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO is the most advanced spacecraft...
GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM BRIEFING: Bomb suspect...
29 APRIL 2010 10:32AM PST BY BEN SCHMITT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Make no mistake, the underwear bombing suspect who tried to blow up a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day is charged with terrorism, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said Wednesday. McQuade responded to comments from Raman Chopra, the husband of Northwest Flight 253 passenger Shama Chopra, after he said that a training video of...
U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING: Schwarz Pharma...
FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO GCIS INTELCENTER: 29 APRIL 2010 10:20AM PST WASHINGTON – Schwarz Pharma Inc. will pay $22 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the company failed to advise the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that two unapproved products did not qualify for coverage under federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING (CIA REPORT/UPDATE): ...
29 APRIL 2010 6:02AM PST GCIS INTELLIGENCE REPORT - Just about everything about the CIA is classified – including its budget – but occasionally we get a little insight into how it’s spending its money: This week, the agency announced plans to pour millions of dollars over the next five years into improving intelligence gathering techniques, technologies and communications. Number 1 on the...
INTERPOL BRIEFING: INTERPOL condemns murderous...
FROM INTERPOL: 29 April 2010 LYON, France – INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble has strongly condemned the gun attack on last Friday in El Salvador in which an INTERPOL officer was shot and seriously wounded and his wife murdered, saying all necessary resources, including the deployment of a team of specialised officers from INTERPOL Headquarters in Lyon, would be devoted to working...
CIA BRIEFING: CIA Director Leon E. Panetta Unveils...
FROM THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: April 29, 2010 In remarks this week to the Agency workforce, Director Leon E. Panetta unveiled CIA 2015, his blueprint for the organization’s future. CIA 2015 is an aggressive plan that builds on outstanding work done since 9/11. Its goal is to ensure that the Agency continues to act decisively on today’s national security challenges—such as terrorism, the...
GCIS ART PROTECTION BRIEFING: Theft of Torah...
ISSUED BY: GCIS ART PROTECTION UNIT FROM: MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK
29 APRIL 2010 4:10AM PST Five sacred Torah scrolls valued at more than $30,000 each were stolen from a Brooklyn synagogue early Wednesday morning, the police said, leaving congregants shocked and saddened. The burglar may have entered through a first-floor window at the Karlsburg Synagogue in Borough Park that was...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Ex-homeland security...
29 APRIL 2010 3:25AM PST Kendra Pannell, 17, listened intently to Tom Ridge on Tuesday evening as the former secretary of homeland security discussed global terrorism. “Terrorism is not just in the news, it’s happening, it’s real,” she said after the talk at the Denver Art Museum. “He made me more aware of what’s going on, not just here but in the...
DHS BRIEFING: Readout of Secretary Napolitano’s...
29 APRIL 2010 3:22AM PST Office of the DHS Press Secretary Washington, D.C. - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday delivered remarks highlighting the Department’s ongoing efforts to bolster aviation security at the National Chamber Foundation’s Annual Aviation Summit—a forum sponsored by the non-profit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in order...
DHS BRIEFING: U.S. and Australia Sign Landmark...
FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: 29 APRIL 2010 3:20AM PST Office of the DHS Press Secretary Washington, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland yesterday signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen emergency management cooperation in response to major storms and other disasters of all...
U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING: Deputy Defense...
FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: 29 APRIL 2010 3:17AM PST By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service PALO ALTO, Calif.– You could call the Facebook headquarters the “un-Pentagon.” The dress is casual, with far more T-shirts than sport coats, and many workers wearing sandals instead of shoes yesterday. But Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III fit right in with the employees of...
NATIONAL TERROR ALERT BRIEFING: Bin-Laden tried...
29 APRIL 2010 3:14AM PST Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin-Laden tried to obtain nuclear weapons, according to his former bodyguard, Nasser al-Bahri. “He dreamed of getting nuclear weapons, and I’m sure that had he got hold of them, he would not have hesitated to use them,” al-Bahri told Al-Quds al-Arabi on Wednesday morning. Al-Bahri, who is currently residing in Yemen, revealed to the London-based...
NATIONAL TERROR ALERT BRIEFING: FBI Agents...
29 APRIL 2010 3:10AM PST The number of FBI agents dedicated to counterterrorism doubled between 2001 and 2009 accounting for more than a quarter of the work done by field agents by last year, a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general has found. Despite the increase, actual active counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases dipped over the last four years by 25 percent, and...
IPT BRIEFING: CAIR's Irresponsible Dismissal of...
FROM THE DESK OF STEVEN EMERSON, EXCUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM TO GCIS INTELCENTER: IPT News April 28, 2010 In the wake of controversy surrounding a death threat against the creators of the animated comedy “South Park” for depicting the prophet Muhammad dressed as a bear, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has made clear that its...
GCIS SPACE SECURITY BRIEFING: STS-132: Astronauts...
ISSUED BY: GCIS SPACE SECURITY CENTER FROM: NASA 28 APRIL 2010 3:27PM PST In preparation for liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-132 mission, the six-member crew arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The astronauts flew to Kennedy to conduct the prelaunch training and countdown dress rehearsal, officially known as the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test....
GCIS SPACE SECURITY BRIEFING: NASA Announces...
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FROM: NASA
Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington Linda Billings George Washington University, Washington 28 APRIL 2010 3:24PM PST MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-064 WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a news media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, April 28, to discuss the status of agency-sponsored astrobiology...
GCIS SPACE SECURITY BRIEFING (NASA): NASA, EPA...
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Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington Environmental Protection Agency Press Office, Washington 28 APRIL 2010 3:22PM PST WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Monday to promote and continue collaboration...
FBI BRIEFING: Former Part-Time Middle School...
FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TO GCIS INTELCENTER: 28 APRIL 2010 3:14PM PST BIRMINGHAM—A federal grand jury today indicted a former part-time Hoover middle school coach on child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley announced. The three-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges JAMES EDWARD CORBITT, 34, of...
GCIS ART PROTECTION BRIEFING: Stolen painting...
ISSUED BY: GCIS ART PROTECTION UNIT FROM: MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK
28 APRIL 2010 1:00PM PST NEW YORK - A painting stolen more than 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at an auction. Elizabeth Gibson didn’t know anything about the brightly colored work she spotted on her morning walk four years ago on Manhattan’s upper West...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Suntanned Women In...
28 APRIL 2010 11:27AM PST GCIS INTELLIGENCE REPORT - Iranian authorities are warning sun tanned women to cover up or face arrest and imprisonment. The national decree comes on the heels of a hardline Iranian cleric stating that immodestly dressed women and disturbed young men were responsible for earthquakes. Tehran’s police chief has called the sunkissed women and girls “walking...
DHS BRIEFING: Secretary Napolitano and Secretary...
FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: 28 APRIL 2010 11:25AM PST Washington, D.C. - As they emphasized the importance of continued vigilance and interagency coordination in the joint response to the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today laid out the next steps for the...
GCIS CYBER SECURITY ALERT: Wikipedia Distributing...
ISSUED BY: GCIS CYBER SECURITY TASK FORCE Kayla Cohen, Deputy Director of Cyber Security FROM: FOX News Reports 28 APRIL 2010 10:44AM PST By Jana Winter Erik Möller, Wikimedia’s Foundation Deputy Director, says of pedophilia: “What is my position on pedophilia, then? It’s really simple. If the child doesn’t want it, is neutral or ambiguous, it’s inappropriate.”...
GCIS CYBER SECURITY BRIEFING: Private sector can...
ISSUED BY: GCIS CYBER SECURITY TASK FORCE FROM: SecuritySearch.com 28 APRIL 2010 10:40AM PST By Robert Westervelt Ongoing network security initiatives at the federal level, including the Trusted Internet Connections program and the Einstein project are helping provide a roadmap for the private sector, according to a network security expert. Michael Markulec, chief operating...
IPT BRIEFING TO GCIS: Syrian-Turkish Joint Army...
FROM THE INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM TO GCIS INTELCENTER: 28 APRIL 2010 9:50AM PST by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Syria is tightening its military alliance with Turkey as it reinforces its recent threat to send Israel back to “the Stone Age” if it attacks Hizbullah. Syrian President Bashar Assad told a Kuwaiti newspaper on Saturday it has “surprises” in store for Israel. Turkish...
FBI BRIEFING: Readington Township Police Officer...
FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TO GCIS INTELCENTER: 28 APRIL 2010 9:47AM PST NEWARK, NJ—Yesterday, Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward presented a certificate of commendation for Corporal Carlos Ferreiro of the Readington Township, New Jersey Police Department for his work in the identification, pursuit, and capture of armed bank robber, Joseph McAdams. McAdams was responsible...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: War with Iran Could...
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu A7 NEWS — If war breaks out between Iran and Israel, it likely would last for ”years and not weeks,” according to Bar-Ilan University researcher Dr. Moshe Vered. Iran also might target Jews around the world. He calls on Israel to internalize the prospect of an unprecedented lengthy war and explains that once the government and public understand the threat, they...
DEA BRIEFING: Alleged Head of the Quintero Drug...
Eight-year battle by defendant to avoid extradition ends with one way trip to San Antonio FROM THE DEA TO GCIS INTELCENTER: 28 APRIL 2010 7:45AM PST DEA — Juan Jose Quintero-Payan, 68, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, has been extradited to Texas to face charges of four felony violations of the drug and racketeering statutes, José Angel Moreno and John E. Murphy, United States...
FBI BRIEFING: AMBER ELIZABETH CATES Missing...
APRIL 11, 2004 COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE AMBER ELIZABETH CATES Photograph age progressed to age 22 DESCRIPTION Date of Birth: February 3, 1988 Place of Birth: Columbia, Tennessee Sex: Female Hair: Light Brown (May have been dyed blonde) Height: 5’5” Eyes: Hazel Weight: 100 pounds Race: White THE DETAILS...
CI CENTER BRIEFING: Islamic War On Free Speech...
ISSUED BY: GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM CENTER
FROM: CI CENTER 28 APRIL 2010 Four incidents recently showed anew how keenly Islamic supremacists want to shut down the freedom of speech—and how eager many Americans are to accommodate them. The most notorious incident was Comedy Central’s censorship of a “South Park” episode lampooning Islam’s prophet Muhammad. Even Bill O’Reilly faltered...
