GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Al Qaeda tape encourages Muslims to replace fallen leaders with Sharia Law

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: ABC News

02March2011 8:12amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  A new audio message released by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee calls for the uprisings in the Middle East to continue until Islamic states are established.

The 10-minute audio message, newly released on the web but recorded after the Tunisian government fell in January, is the first major communiqué from al Qaeda recorded after the tumult in the Middle East began, and has been seen by some analysts as the terror group's attempt to stay relevant.

The message, purportedly from Saudi national Ibrahim Sulayman al Robaysh, an al Qaeda operative released from Guantanamo in 2006, warns Tunisians that the removal of long-time president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was laudable, but likely to result in another "tyrant" taking his place if Tunisians don't create a state based on Islamic law, or sharia.

"I am happy, like the others, that this tyrant has fallen," al Robaysh said. "But I don't think that these events will be beneficial to the plight of Muslims. For it could be that they have replaced a horrible situation with a not so bad one. Or replaced one tyrant with another." (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: How Two Companies Stopped a Terror Suspect

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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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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Homegrown terror plots focus of hearings

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SOURCE: L.A. Times

09February2011 9:38amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON — Abdulhakim Muhammad was born Carlos Bledsoe, played high school football and attended business school in college. He mowed his grandmother's lawn. He also converted to Islam at a Memphis mosque, studied in Yemen and, while there, fell in with a group of extremists.

By the time he returned to the U.S., federal law enforcement officials say he had been dangerously radicalized as a domestic terrorist. When he allegedly opened fire with an SKS automatic rifle on a Little Rock, Ark., Army recruiting station, he became part of a rising trend — one of 50 Americans arrested on terror charges in the last two years.

From May 2009 to last November, authorities broke up 22 homegrown terror plots, compared with 21 during the previous eight years. (read full report)

 

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Gingrich: "We're losing war on terror"

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SOURCE: CNN

03February2011 1:23pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Washington (CNN) – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave a grim assessment on the war on terror last night during a debate with former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, and suggested the situation unfolding in Egypt could pose a threat to the United States.
"Any honest assessment on 9/11 this year, ten years after the attack, I think will have to conclude that we're slowly losing the war," Gingrich said. "We're losing the war because there are madrassahs around the planet teaching hatred. We're losing the war because the network of terrorists is bigger, not smaller."

Gingrich pointed to the unrest in Egypt as posing a potential new threat to American security.
"There's a real possibility in a few weeks, if we're unfortunate, that Egypt will join Iran, and join Lebanon, and join Gaza, and join the things that are happening that are extraordinarily dangerous to us," Gingrich said. (read full report)

 

 

 

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