ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: AZ Central
02April2011 1:19pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A Mesa wastewater employee faces terrorism charges after police say he shut down a Southeast Valley wastewater treatment plant, creating a buildup of methane gas and sparking a standoff with Gilbert SWAT.
Mesa police and Gilbert SWAT officers responded to the plant, which is owned by Mesa, Gilbert and Queen Creek but operated by Mesa.
A two-hour standoff ended when Olson surrendered at 4:30 a.m., Balafas said. He was booked into the Maricopa County 4th Avenue Jail on suspicion of terrorism, making terrorist threats, misconduct involving weapons, tampering with a public utility, criminal trespassing and criminal damage to property. (read full report)
Rose sent electronic communications to Ramirez stating that “soon i will be moving to Europe to be with other brothers & sisters...when i get to europe, i will send for you to come be with me there...[T]his place will be like a training camp as well as a home.” In electronic communications dated on or about August 7, 2009, CC #2 recruited another individual to find brothers and sisters to go to a “camp for [military-style] training...and th[e]n come back to europe to do the job...[T]he job is to [k]nock down some individual[s] that are harming islam.” CC#2 goes on to explain that he is structuring “an ORGANIZATION” divided into a “plan[n]ing team...research team...action team...recruitment team...finance team.”
Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough set the Obama administration's tone for discussions as tensions escalate before the first in a series of congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization. The hearings, chaired by New York Republican Peter King, will focus on the level of cooperation from the Muslim community to help law enforcement combat radicalization.
chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday in defending upcoming hearings on radical Islam.
Other hypotheses include human error, a mechanical fault, substandard parts and adulterated fuel.
a third of the population is not originally from Germany. An ethnic Albanian born in Kosovo and raised Muslim, he grew up in a middle-class family in Germany and lived with his parents and siblings. It was only recently that he turned to radical Islam, apparently connecting with extremists on Facebook and online jihadi forums.
supported by the American taxpayers at the federal and state levels.
to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system.
Medvedev said in early February that the fight against terrorism, as well as efforts to combat extremism, organized crime and corruption were priorities for the country's law enforcement agencies.
Rajib Karim, a 31-year-old Bangladeshi man, was convicted of four counts of engaging in preparation for terrorist attacks. He already had pleaded guilty to other, lesser terrorism offenses.
different from those of the past.
Guards Al Qods Brigades, DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report. Tehran is using the Middle East turbulence to generate fuel shortages in Iraq and boost oil prices worldwide.
Chief of Operations Mike Braun, adding that the group "is developing relations with those responsible for operating those smuggling operations and then forming close relations with them, so that they can move anything they have an interest into virtually anywhere in the world." He goes on to tell me that the Middle East terror group is "rubbing shoulders" with drug cartels around the globe.
Before 9/11, DC Water used chlorine and sulfur dioxide to treat wastewater, George Hawkins told the House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology Friday. Those chemicals would have posed a threat to the surrounding community if a terrorist attack on the facility ignited them.
system "represents the battleground for the future."
policing necessitate the forging of new relationships between police and communities, according to a new study by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), titled The Changing Environment for Policing, 1985-2008.
missed the signs of Arab revolt in Tunisia and Egypt, the nation’s top intelligence official will tell Congress that the threat from al Qaeda and its affiliates remains his No. 1 priority, U.S. officials said.
securing our Nation from terrorism. Nevertheless, the terrorist threat facing our country has evolved significantly in the last ten years – and continues to evolve – so that, in some ways, the threat facing us is at its most heightened state since those attacks. This fact requires us to continually adapt our counterterrorism techniques to effectively detect, deter, and prevent terrorist acts.
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is anticipating an armed conflict between his deputies and cartel members within the next 30 to 60 days.