GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Mexico City street gangs mimic cartel violence

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Federal News Radio

04April2011 4:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Two headless bodies are dumped on a street in suburban Mexico City along with a message sent by a mysterious group called "The Hand with Eyes." Days later, a severed head shows up in a car abandoned outside an elementary school in the same suburb.

For drug lords, this sprawling metropolis of 20 million has been a favorite hide-out and place to launder money, making Mexico City somewhat of an oasis from the brutal cartel violence along the border and in outlying states.

Now a spate of killings and decapitations never before seen have authorities batting down fears that a once-distant drug war is making its way into the capital. Instead, they say, the violence since late last year comes from street gangs fighting for an increasingly lucrative local drug market. (read full report)

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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Armed Gangs Free Muslim Militants in Egypt

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Newsmax

30January2011 12:46pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CAIRO (AP) — Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn Sunday, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates as police vanished from the streets of Cairo and other cities.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo told its citizens in Egypt to consider leaving the country as soon as possible, a display of Washington's escalating concern about the stability of its closest Arab ally.

The army sent hundreds more troops and armored vehicles onto the streets of Cairo and other cities but appeared to be taking little action against gangs of young men with guns and large sticks who were smashing cars and robbing people.

At least one Nile-side shopping mall in Cairo was on fire after being looted the previous day. (read full report)

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)