GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: How Two Companies Stopped a Terror Suspect

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: CNBC

25February2011 9:00pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: In the end, it wasn’t a TSA agent, a Homeland Security operative or an FBI agent who first spotted alleged terror plotter Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari.

It was the employees of a private shipping company.

According to the government, somebody at the shipping company called local police after becoming suspicious about a chemical package that Aldawsari was set to receive.

Meanwhile, officials at the chemical company that sent the material called the FBI with their suspicions about Aldawsari—and later worked with an FBI agent who posed undercover as a company employee in dealings with the suspect.

Aldawsari, 20, was arrested Wednesday in Texas and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. The Department of Justice said Thursday that Aldawsari had purchased chemicals and equipment necessary to make an improvised explosive device and had researched potential targets to strike, including the home address of former President George W. Bush. (read full report)

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