GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Financial terrorism suspected in ‘08 economic crash

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: The Washington Times

01March2011 6:30amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Evidence outlined in a Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations, contributed to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system.

The unclassified 2009 report “Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses” by financial analyst Kevin D. Freeman, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, states that “a three-phased attack was planned and is in the process against the United States economy.”

While economic analysts and a final report from the federal government's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission blame the crash on such economic factors as high-risk mortgage lending practices and poor federal regulation and supervision, the Pentagon contractor adds a new element: “outside forces,” a factor the commission did not examine.

“There is sufficient justification to question whether outside forces triggered, capitalized upon or magnified the economic difficulties of 2008,” the report says, explaining that those domestic economic factors would have caused a “normal downturn” but not the “near collapse” of the global economic system that took place. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Al-Qaeda calls for new attacks on West

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: MySinchew

25February2011 3:30pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON - In a message released Thursday, Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri encouraged extremists everywhere to dream up new ways to attack the West, as the September 11 bombers did nearly 10 years ago.

The 35-minute message -- a video containing only a still picture of Zawahiri in which he can be heard delivering a speech -- was the second in a series titled "A Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to the People of Egypt." It was produced by Al-Qaeda's media arm, as-Sahab.

"If we are not able to produce weapons equal to the weapons of the Crusader West, we can sabotage their complex economic and industrial systems and drain their powers, which fight without a cause, until they run away fleeing," Zawahiri said in the audio message, according to the US-based SITE monitoring service.

He complained that the Muslim world trails behind the West in technological know-how and military weaponry.

"Therefore, the mujahideen (holy warriors) must invent new ways, ways that never dawned on the minds of the West," Zawahiri continued. "An example of this brave and courageous thinking is the use of airplanes as a mighty weapon, as happened in the blessed invasions in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania."

The 9/11 attacks left nearly 3,000 people dead when Al-Qaeda extremists slammed airliners into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. (read full report)

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