February 2011
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News Releases are official statements of the Department of Defense.
Feb 1st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Mexico sets $658,000...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: AP 31January2011 7:15pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors are offering 8 million pesos ($658,000) for information leading to the capture of two suspects in the massacre of 72 illegal Central and South American migrants. Authorities have already arrested eight people in the mass...
Feb 1st
January 2011
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Google Teams Up With...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: TechCrunch 31January2011 6:43pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: It was only last week that Google acquired SayNow, a voice messaging startup, They’re already putting them to good use. I mean really good use. As they’ve just announced on the Google Blog, the search giant has teamed up with the incoming SayNow team and...
Jan 31st
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Netanyahu tries to...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: DEBKAfile 31January2011 6:25pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, Jan 31 he feared Egypt could end up with a radical Islamic regime as in Iran that would “grind human rights to dust” and go against the interests all the peoples of the region share for...
Jan 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Danes say men plotted...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: DALJE.com 31January2011 5:36pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Accused terrorists planned to cut the throats of reporters at a Danish newspaper that printed Mohammed cartoons, police wiretaps reveal. The men hoped to kill as many people as possible at Jyllands-Posten within 20 minutes, recordings...
Jan 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Learn more quickly by...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: PHYSORG 31January2011 5:14pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: What sounds like science fiction is actually possible: thanks to magnetic stimulation, the activity of certain brain nerve cells can be deliberately influenced. What happens in the brain in this context has been unclear up to now. Medical experts from Bochum under...
Jan 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: China's New Super-City...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: POPSCI 31January2011 5:03pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: If you’re going to build the world’s biggest megatropolis in the world’s most populous country, you don’t start from scratch. You take nine existing population centers and merge them. At least, that’s the thinking behind the “Turn the Pearl River Delta Into One”...
Jan 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Flying into orbit in...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: U.S. ARMY 31January2011 4:48pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — For 35 days, the comings and goings of employees in the Von Braun Complex parking lot here were the focus of a group of young engineers involved in an experiment with the first Army-built satellite launched in more than 50 years....
Jan 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Social Networking...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Science Daily 31January2011 4:09pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The rise of social media has allowed people to connect and re-connect with friends, colleagues and family from across the world. A new paper by University of Minnesota computer scientists in the College of Science and Engineering provides insights into how the...
Jan 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Startup America: Obama...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Politics Daily 31January2011 3:59pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Obama administration is launching what President Barack Obama calls “a historic partnership with business leaders, investors, universities, foundations, and non-profits” to foster new businesses and the entrepreneurs who start them. The...
Jan 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Army 'not to use...
Explicit confirmation comes before Tuesday’s “march of millions” to force President Hosni Mubarak to step down. ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: ALJAZEERA 31January2011 3:19pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Egyptian army has said it would not use force against citizens staging protests to force President Hosni Mubarak to step...
Jan 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Arab Rebellions...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Newsmax 31January2011 2:35pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Revolts in Egypt and Tunisia have struck a blow against al Qaeda’s call to violence as a means of overthrowing autocratic governments, showing “people power” to be a more effective weapon. The adaptable militant group, with strong roots in Egypt,...
Jan 31st
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Man jailed over...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: ABC Australia 31January2011 9:57amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Brendon Lee O’Connell is the first person in Western Australia to be convicted under the state’s racial vilification laws. A jury found him guilty last week of six offences. O’Connell posted a video on YouTube showing him insulting a...
Jan 31st
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Rutgers bars Jews...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: World Net Daily 31January2011 9:44amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers University campus police tonight barred some 400 Jewish students and their supporters, including some Holocaust survivors, from attending what was billed as an anti-Zionist gathering at the state school tonight. The...
Jan 31st
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Stuxnet returns to...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: DEBKAfile 31January2011 9:06amEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Iran’s atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Jan. 29 that the Bushehr nuclear power plant would be connected to the national grid on April 9. He “forgot” about Tehran’s promise to fully activate its first nuclear reactor Tuesday,...
Jan 31st
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Mubarak swears in...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: JPOST 31January2011 8:44amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CAIRO - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak swore in a new Cabinet on Monday, replacing one dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests. In the most significant change, the interior minister — who heads internal security forces — was...
Jan 31st
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: FBI arrests Coventry...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Cleveland.com 31January2011 3:48amEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: AKRON, Ohio — Federal agents on Friday arrested a Coventry Township man on one count of unlawful possession of a biological agent — the deadly toxin ricin. Jeffrey B. Levenderis, 54, appeared in U.S. District Court in Akron late Friday, but did...
Jan 31st
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: President Obama joins...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Arab News 30January2011 1:39pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CASABLANCA: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and US President Barack Obama expressed their disapproval of the current turmoil in Egypt in a telephone conservation Saturday night. (read full report)
Jan 30th
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Oman says UAE spy...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Reuters 30January2011 12:56pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Oman said it had uncovered a UAE spy network in the Gulf Arab state that targeted its government and military, the state news agency of the U.S. ally reported on Sunday. Neighboring United Arab Emirates, a regional energy, financial and tourism hub that typically...
Jan 30th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Armed Gangs Free...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Newsmax 30January2011 12:46pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CAIRO (AP) — Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn Sunday, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates as police vanished from the streets of Cairo and other cities. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo...
Jan 30th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Civilians Watch...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Newsmax 30January2011 12:09pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CAIRO (AP) — When Egypt’s police melted from the streets of Cairo this weekend, the people stepped in. Civilians armed with knives, axes, golf clubs, firebombs, metal bars and makeshift spears watched over many neighborhoods in the sprawling capital of 18...
Jan 30th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israeli PM Says...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 30January2011 11:51amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says that Israel’s three-decade-old peace agreement with Egypt must be preserved — despite the chaos and lawlessness sweeping the country. It was Netanyahu’s first...
Jan 30th
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Thousands attend last...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: U tv News 30January2011 11:40amEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Fourteen people died when British soldiers opened fire during a civil rights march in the city back in 1972. The event follows the planned route of the original walk from the Creggan shops to Guildhall Square. UTV’s Mark McFadden, who is in Derry, said...
Jan 30th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Opposition leader...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: CNN 30January2011 11:27amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei on Sunday called for embattled President Hosni Mubarak to “leave today and save the country.” “This is a country that is falling apart,” ElBaradei told CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria...
Jan 30th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egypt riots: MKs...
As uprising reaches Sinai near Gaza Strip, Knesset House Committee chairman fearful of flow of infiltrators from fenceless border ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: YNET News 30January2011 11:16amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Is the spreading anarchy in Egypt going to cause a heavy price to Israeli demographic? Knesset House Committee Chairman David...
Jan 30th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Tanks, Fighter...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Israel National News 30January2011 11:07amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Egypt sent its tanks into Cairo over the weekend and its fighter planes soared through the skies overhead in an effort to persuade protesters to return home. Military helicopters hovered over the crowds and trucks of soldiers appeared in the...
Jan 30th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Hamas gunmen from...
Muslim Brotherhood more active than it appears ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: DEBKAfile 30January2011 10:50amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  Gunmen of Hamas’s armed wing, Ezz e-Din al Qassam, crossed from Gaza into northern Sinai Sunday, Jan. 30 to attack Egyptian forces and push them back. They acted on orders from Hamas’ parent...
Jan 30th
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egyptian authorities...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: JPOST 30January2011 10:40amEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  Egyptian authorities ordered Al-Jazeera’s offices in Cairo shut down on Sunday morning following the network’s non-stop coverage of the country’s massive protests against the government. The move triggered a sharp response from the Al-Jazeera which...
Jan 30th
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Human Traffickers...
Massive Case Involves 600 Thai Victims ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: FBI 29January2011 6:40pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: It seemed pretty straightforward: labor recruiters in Thailand approached impoverished rural farm workers—who made around $1,000 (U.S.) annually—and offered jobs on American farms for higher pay.    Many, hoping to provide a...
Jan 29th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israel silently...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: DEBKAfile 29January2011 6:12pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Egypt, one of the only two Arab states to sign peace with Israel, is wobbling dangerously on the brink of revolutionary change with potentially spreading fallout. This week, Israel was dismayed to find itself looking suddenly at three latently hostile...
Jan 29th
Two Mummies Destroyed at Cairo Museum UPDATED →
Yesterday, Reuters reported that the army was called in to relieve thousands of volunteers, who had formed a human chain around Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, to prevent its being looted by…
Jan 29th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Tourists Besiege...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Newsmax 29January2011 1:00pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of people crowded the capital’s main international airport hoping for a flight out on Saturday but Western carriers were canceling, delaying or suspending service after days of violent unrest. A British airline turned around its...
Jan 29th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Newsmax Cairo...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Newsmax 29January2011 12:32pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: With the gradual disappearance of Egyptian police forces in Cairo, the country is – for the moment – falling to thugs and burglars, a Newsmax source in Cairo says. “There is absolutely no security in this country right now,” said Ahmed, who has been able to...
Jan 29th
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Authorities know who...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: UPI 29January2011 12:19pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (UPI) — Russian authorities say they have identified the suicide bomber that killed 35 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport on Jan. 24. But Federal Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said the 20-year-old man’s name...
Jan 29th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egypt's President...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Newsmax 29January2011 12:02pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named a vice president Saturday for the first time since coming to power nearly 30 years ago. It was a clear step toward setting up a successor in the midst of the biggest challenge ever to his rule from tens of...
Jan 29th
Kehler Succeeds Chilton as Strategic Command Chief →
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, welcomed Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler as the new chief of U.S. Strategic Command during a…
Jan 29th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Obama: Mubarak...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: YNET News 29January2011 12:14amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: President Barack Obama says he’s spoken to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and told him he has a responsibility to take concrete steps to deliver on promises of better democracy and greater economic opportunity.   Obama spoke in the White House...
Jan 29th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israel fears...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: YNET News 29January2011 12:09amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A fundamental change of government in Egypt may lead to a “revolution in Israel’s security doctrine,” a defense official told Ynet Friday night, as protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s rule continued to intensify.   The security official made it...
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Fitch Downgrades...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Money News 29January2011 12:02amEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Fitch Rating on Friday revised down its outlook for Egypt, dropping it to “negative” as mass protests in the country turned violent, engulfing the capital and other cities in a serious challenge to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule....
Jan 29th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Iran Cleric:...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 28January2011 11:56pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A senior Iranian cleric said today that a change of government in Tunisia and violent protests in Egypt and Yemen are evidence that Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution is being replayed. (read full report)
Jan 29th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Energized...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: CNN 28January2011 11:53pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Cairo, Egypt — “Freedom!” That word, yelled out in Arabic, reverberated Friday along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo — as well as in the port city of Alexandria, near the canal in Suez, and other pockets of Egypt. Many demonstrators...
Jan 29th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: UK-Egypt plane...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: BBC 28January2011 11:48pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A plane travelling from the UK to Egypt was diverted to Greece after a note containing the word “bomb” was apparently found on board. (read full report)
Jan 29th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egyptian-American...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: CNN 28January2011 11:20pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: As public protests against the Mubarak regime spread from Cairo to New York City, Egyptian-American activists on Friday called on the Obama adminstration to back the “Lotus Revolution” to oust the authoritarian ruler. They also called on President...
Jan 29th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Newsmax Source in...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: Newsmax 28January2011 10:58pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A source on the ground in Cairo who supports the protesters and who joined the rally that triggered a brutal backlash from police Friday tells Newsmax that the uprising in Egypt has no link to Muslim extremism, nor any other religious motivation. “It has...
Jan 29th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Egypt tense after...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: ALJAZEERA 28January2011 10:48pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Protesters in the Egyptian cities of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez have defied a nighttime curfew and continued with demonstrations demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year presidency. Speaking on national television in the early hours of Saturday,...
Jan 29th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Mubarak announces...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: JPOST 28January2011 8:32pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CAIRO - Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak fired his Cabinet early Saturday and promised reforms in his first response to protesters who have mounted the biggest challenge ever to his 30-year rule. But many protesters were outraged by Mubarak’s...
Jan 29th
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Mubarak hangs on...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: DEBKAfile 28January2011 8:12pmEST GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: (exerpt:) DEBKAfile reports that “The coming hours will see how the protest movement responds to Mubarak’s decision to hold on to power in defiance of their main rallying cry and how the army conducts itself as thousands of protesters defy the...
Jan 29th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Sheriff's Sergeant...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: FBI 28January2011 7:59pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Lucas County Sheriff’s Sergeant John E. Gray was sentenced today in Ohio to three years in prison for federal civil rights violations and records falsification relating to the in-custody death of a pretrial detainee at the Lucas County Jail. Evidence at trial showed...
Jan 29th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Man Arrested for...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center SOURCE: FBI 28January2011 7:52pmEST GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: FBI special agents and the United States Postal Inspection Service arrested a Claremont man this morning on federal charges of sending threatening letters containing a powdery substance to multiple offices of the Department of Children and Family Services and the Los...
Jan 29th