GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Documents Detail Tulsa Police Captain's Discipline For Refusing Order

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: News 9 Oklahoma

25February2011 6:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: TULSA, Oklahoma — A Tulsa Police Captain has been disciplined because he refused to order officers to attend the Islamic Society's law enforcement appreciation day next month.

He is being investigated by TPD's Internal Affairs for violating the department's obedience policy.

News On 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright has obtained TPD memos that say Captain Paul Fields believes it was unlawful for the department to tell him to order officers to go to the event so he refused.

Fields said the order conflicted with his personal religious convictions and violated his civil rights.

He said if it was a call for service, he would readily respond, but just an invitation to tour a mosque, watch a prayer service, meet Muslim leadership and receive a presentation of their beliefs wasn't related to his work as a police officer.

A flyer from the Islamic Society of Tulsa invites all Tulsa officers to attend the law enforcement appreciation day on March 4, 2011.

"We tried to anticipate these concerns by stating on the invitation what time the prayer service begins and ends so they could come observe if they wanted or if they wanted nothing to do with the religious portion, they could come, eat, visit and leave at their leisure," Sheryl Siddiqui, Islamic Society of Tulsa, said.

Memos show it was originally voluntary to attend, but because of a lack of people signing up, Deputy Chief Daryl Webster sent a memo saying each patrol division would send a total of 6 officers and 3 supervisors to the event. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: IRAN IN THE NEWS

Police disperse Iranian protesters with tear gas

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SOURCE: The Independent

14February2011 1:43pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: (AP) – Clashes between Iranian police and tens of thousands of protesters wracked central Tehran today with security forces beating and firing tear gas at opposition supporters looking to evoke Egypt's recent popular uprising.

The opposition called for a demonstration today in solidarity with Egypt's popular revolt that a few days earlier forced the president there to resign after nearly 30 years in office. The rally is the first major show of strength for Iran's cowed opposition in more than a year. (read full report)

 

Iran court to target 'media crimes,' spurring fears of fresh crackdown

SOURCE: CNN

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Iranian officials said Sunday that the Middle Eastern nation will create a court focusing on "media crimes," according to state-run media reports, a move that has fueled fears Tehran is further intensifying its crackdown on journalists.

Abbas Zagholi, the head of Iran's Government Employees Court, said the new judicial branch "was necessitated by the special media crimes," according to a report in Khabar, a conservative publication run by backers of parliamentary Speaker and Tehran Mayor Ali Larijani.

"For certain reasons, such as great developments in mass media, the Tehran prosecutor felt the need to create a more independent court to deal with media affairs," Zagholi said.

Omid Memarian, a native Iranian and U.S.-based freelance journalist who said he talks regularly with journalists in Iran, said the new apparatus could spell greater attention, and prosecution, of those who don't mimic Tehranian government positions. (read full report)

 

Iran: West Is Conspiring in Demonstrations

SOURCE: Newsmax

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

TEHRAN — Western spies are conspiring to ignite an uprising in Iran by recruiting a candidate willing to set himself on fire in an anti-regime protest, the Islamic republic's volunteer militia warned on Sunday.

Basij commander Mohammad Reza Naghdi's accusation came as Washington and Tehran engage in a war of words over Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's ouster under the weight of a popular uprising.

"Western intelligence agencies are searching for a mentally challenged person who can set himself on fire in Tehran to trigger developments like those in Egypt and Tunisia," Naghdi said, quoted by Fars news agency.

"They (the West) are very retarded and think by imitating such actions they can emerge victorious," said the powerful Islamist volunteer militia's commander. (read full report)

 

'This may be the first spark of revolution in Iran’

SOURCE: JPOST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The protesters of Egypt, who brought down Hosni Mubarak over the weekend after 18 days of sustained demonstrations, have given the Iranian public a clear lesson, according to Menashe Amir, the veteran Israeli expert on Iranian affairs: When you take the streets, don’t go home again.

Amid minor, but spreading clashes in Iran on Monday afternoon, with news agencies reporting Iranian forces using sticks and tear gas as several thousand people headed into major squares, the question of the hour is whether Iranians have learned from the Egyptian precedent and are willing to try and replicate it. Monday’s protests were initiated by Iranian opposition figures in ostensible solidarity with the popular protests in Egypt and elsewhere, but were plainly intended, after months of relative quiet, to revive the anti-regime demonstrations of 2009, and the Iranian authorities did their best in recent days to discourage them. (read full report)

 

"GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE" is an intelligence briefing presented by Griffith Colson Intelligence Service, and provided to the public for informative purposes only. All subject matter is credited to it's source of origin, and is not intended to represent original content authored by GCIS, it's partners or affiliates. All opinions presented are those of the author, and not necessarily those of GCIS or it's partners.