GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Lawmakers: Figure Out Al Qaeda Influence Before Arming Libya Rebels

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Fox News

04April2011 7:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  Officials cautioned Sunday that it's too early to determine whether the United States and its allies should arm the Libyan rebels, saying the coalition is still trying to assess the influence of supposed "flickers" of Al Qaeda in the opposition. 

Several lawmakers, however, made clear that it would be unacceptable for Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi to stay in power, with one top official warning his weapons stockpile makes him a potential "terrorist threat."  (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Eyeless in Libya — and a Swiftian border security solution

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Homeland Security NewsWire

02April2011 1:30pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Everyone knows what the Libyan rebels are against — Gaddafi — but there is no way tell what they are for; this lack of information is not good; first, the United States and its allies may be pushing for the replacement of the devil we know with the devil we do not know; this is akin to giving Michael Phelps a three body length advantage at a swim meet: not a good idea; second, the lack of knowledge about the rebels is like a Rorschach test: outsiders look at them and see what they want to see; Jonathan Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies; should we consider a Swiftian solution to problem of securing the U.S.-Mexico border? (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Libya: What should CIA be doing?

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: The Washington Post

05March2011 8:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: With the future of Libya still in the balance, some CIA operations veterans think it’s well past time the spy agency went past just trying to keep tabs on what’s going on and arm the rebels.

“This guy, Gaddafi, has been an enemy of ours for decades,” says Charles Faddis, who led a secret CIA mission into northern Iraq before the 2003 invasion.

“Now his people have risen up against him and are attempting to do what we never could, depose him. We should have been in there a week ago, arming the opposition and providing whatever other assistance we can.”

The agency’s success in Afghanistan in 2001, leading troops and directing air strikes that routed the Taliban in matter of weeks show that “both CIA and Special Forces have broad capabilities, as displayed in Afghanistan in 2001, to work with indigenous forces in fast moving, fluid situations like this,” Faddis added.

President Obama said today that he had "instructed…all those who are involved in international affairs to examine is a full range of options," which resumably includes the CIA and other special operations assets.

The administration should definitely not send troops when CIA and special operations units are suited for the situation, said a former top military intelligence official in Afghanistan who asked for anonymity because he still works on international issues. (read full report)

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