GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: King to Press On With Hearings on Radical Islam Despite Protests in New York

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Fox News

07March2011 4:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON — Radical Islam poses a threat to the United States as a whole, but is particularly dangerous to American Muslims who are targeted by terror groups, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday in defending upcoming hearings on radical Islam.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., is facing a backlash, including a Sunday protest in New York, over his decision to hold Thursday's hearing — the first in a series — on the threat of Islamic radicalization. King said he's surprised the American-Muslim community is not embracing his hearings because they are the ones most victimized when radical elements infiltrate their communities.

"I've said time and again the overwhelming [majority] of Muslims are good Americans, but the threat is coming from their community and we have to find out why, how it is being done and how to stop it," he told Fox News. "We have an absolute obligation to investigate that." (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Petraeus orders probe into alleged psyops use

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Air Force Times

25February2011 2:15pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is calling for an investigation into charges that an army unit trained in psychological operations was improperly ordered to manipulate American senators to get more money and troops for the war.

A senator allegedly targeted said Thursday that he’s confident there will be a review of the facts, but played down the idea that he was manipulated.

The staff of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, head of the effort to train Afghan security forces, ordered the information operations unit to compile profiles, voting records and other information on visiting lawmakers to leverage in a campaign to get more assistance, said a story Thursday on Rolling Stone’s website. It says the campaign also improperly targeted the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, and others.

Caldwell’s office denied it. But a press statement from Kabul said that the commander of forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus would order a probe “based on the information” in the article.

The military cell devoted to what is known as “information operations” believed their mission on arriving in Afghanistan in November 2009 was to assess the effects of U.S. propaganda on the Taliban and local Afghan population, the magazine said, quoting Lt. Col. Michael Holmes, whom it identified as the leader of the five-man team.

Holmes said they resisted the order to compile information on congressional delegations that were visiting there and think of what information “to plant inside their heads.” He said they were subjected to retaliation for resisting.

“My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave,” Holmes is quoted as saying. “When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a line.” (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: 260 "stolen babies" demand judicial investigation

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: The Reader

28January2011 11:45amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

For several months, the trickle of calls has been relentless. Almost every day, several people contact ANADIR with the suspicion of having being one of the babies stolen at birth from their natural mothers by 'child stealing' gangs operating in maternity hospitals across Spain during the years of Franco and the first years of democracy. ANADIR – (Asociación Nacional de Afectados por Adopciones Ilegales -National Association of People Affected by Illegal Adoptions), had now prepared an official demand that the Public Prosecutor setup a national investigation.

Many elderly people now live in fear that their children, who they were told be doctors or midwives had died at birth, are in fact alive and living with other families. Others know they are in the wrong home because their parents have confessed that they bought them from corrupt doctors or priests – but have no way of tracing their true parents and family.

So far, 261 people have already joined this partnership in search of answers. Together, and led by barrister Enrique Vila they have prepared a joint report, presented this morning to the Attorney General's Office, asking for an official committee to investigate what happened. (read full report)