GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland – Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Carnegie Endowment

03March2011 9:08amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the organization behind the attempted Christmas Day 2009 attack and last October’s cargo bomb plot, has repeatedly attempted to strike American interests. In testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, Christopher Boucek warns that AQAP is now the greatest single terrorist threat to the United States—a greater danger even than al-Qaeda’s senior leadership. (read full report)

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