GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Libya’s ambassador here raising pre-Gaddafi flag

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Washington Post

25February2011 4:30pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Libyan ambassador to the United States plans to raise the country’s pre-Gaddafi flag over his Washington, D.C. home Friday afternoon, a U.S. Muslim organization says.

Ambassador Ali Aujali, who resigned earlier this week, “will raise the flag of the pre-Gaddafi era at the residence of the Libyan ambassador in Washington, D.C.” at 2 p.m. Friday, according to the announcement from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

“There will also be a prayer vigil for all those killed or injured by Gaddafi's forces,” CAIR said, adding that there are about 500 Libyan-Americans in the capital area. The ambassador’s home is in the posh Kalorama neighborhood, where many diplomats live.

Aujali, who announced his resignation Tuesday, could not be reached for further comment.

“I am resigning from serving the regime I am serving, but not resigning from serving our people,” Aujali told Australia’s “The World Today” show on Thursday. “They need me to be around to get the international community to raise their voice, to stop this massacre killing in eastern parts of the country, of Libya and then the western part of Libya.” (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: On Capitol Hill, MPAC Panel Seeks to Whitewash Jihadist

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SOURCE: Right Side News

11February2011 8:41amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Two days after a panel took to Capitol Hill to say the terrorist threat to America is overblown, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a House committee Tuesday that "the terrorist threat to the homeland is in many ways at its most heightened state since 9/11."

That threat comes from homegrown terrorists ready to strike with "little or no warning," she said.

Islamist groups including Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, al-Shabaab and branches of al-Qaida are driving the threat, National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter added. "I actually consider al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, with Awlaki as a leader within that organization, probably the most significant risk to the U.S. homeland," he said.

Both officials said the problem reflects on only a tiny portion of the Muslim-American community.

A similar theme was emphasized during a forum Monday sponsored by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). But the rest of "Muslims, Law Enforcement and National Security" offered a tutorial on how not to have a serious discussion about the homegrown terrorist threat. Panelists mired themselves in platitudes and use of misleading statistics to downplay the threat to the United States. They relied on data from faulty studies and featured witnesses who have downplayed the threat of radical Islamist groups. (read full report)

 

 

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