Bulletin Archives

September 9, 2005: Katrina Response Failures and Homeland Security

The onslaught of Hurricane Katrina and its horrific aftermath, watched by a shocked nation in real time, seems to have taken many by surprise.

August 26, 2005: Border security takes center stage

A little over a year ago, I wrote about the dangerous situation on our southern border, a porous boundary that separates the United States from Mexico and across which millions of illegal immigrants have made their way.

July 29, 2005: Our ticking bomb is political correctness

July has been a cruel month. A shocking attack by suicide terrorists left 56 morning commuters in London dead. Scarcely two weeks later, three car bombs in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, killed 88 tourists and locals.

July 15, 2005: Lessons learned from London

They were the ultimate ‘sleepers’. At least two of them were British born and bred, home grown products of British schooling and culture. All were British citizens.

June 17, 2005: Failed Palestinian leadership puts world at risk

For thousands of years, the Middle East has been the setting for complex, volatile, and often violent interaction between diverse cultures.

April 8, 2005: Collaboration is key to U.S. security

"The intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."

February 28, 2005: Intercepted message renews threats against US

Recent intelligence indicates that Osama bin Laden has been encouraging Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to focus his attention on terrorist attacks within the United States.

February 7, 2005: INTELALERT Newsletter

Newsletter Contains:
• Illegal Immigration moves east and poses growing threat to national security
• Reports of laser beams focused on U.S. aircraft rising
• Container security high on list of port vulnerabilities
• Looking for doctors to specialize in homeland security
• Sale of airline pilot’s uniforms
• The 13th Annual Terrorism Trends and Forecasts Conference (June 6-7, 2005)

February 1, 2005: Iraqis take courageous step toward freedom

The pictures of exuberant Iraqis dancing, laughing, and crying, as they crowded into the polling places and celebrated their first free election in fifty years, provided the world with an image of enormous power.

January 28, 2005: Dealing with the Growing Threat of Terrorism

Last week’s terrorist alarm, that raised counter-terrorism professionals to a heightened state of alert from California to Boston, proved, in the words of the FBI, to have “no credibility”.

November 19, 2004: Straight talk on the threat of terrorism

When we watched the first war in Iraq unfold on television
from the comfort of our living rooms, we felt safe because the war was so
far away.

November 5, 2004: Bush policy is reason bin Laden didn't attack

For many months, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, and counter-terrorism specialists (including myself) have been warning that the possibility of a major terrorist attack designed to disrupt our elections was extremely high.

November 1, 2004: ALERT:
Industry Leaders at Risk

The kidnapping of Director of Operations of CARE-Iraq, Margaret Hassan, from her car in Bagdhad on October 19, signals the beginning of a dramatic change in tactics about which we have been warning our clients for some time.

October 27, 2004: Pre-election threats

There are many indications that a major terrorist offensive is planned for the pre-election period that ends on Tuesday, November 2. Recent intelligence indicates that the attacks will be aimed at weakening President Bush's standing among the voters. Significantly, GGi analysts believe that his greatest vulnerability is in Iraq rather than on the home front, and that the offensive is therefore most likely to take place there.

October 19, 2004: ALERT:
Industry Leaders at Greater Risk

October 19, 2004 -- Early Tuesday morning in Baghdad, British-Iraqi Margaret Hassan, Director of Operations of CARE in Iraq, was abducted by terrorists. Her kidnapping signals the beginning of a dramatic change in tactics about which we have been warning our clients for some time.

October 8, 2004: The media spins issue of Iraqi weapons

On Wednesday morning, Charles Duelfer, special adviser to the CIA on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington.… What Duelfer said presented a very different picture from that painted by the media. It was a detailed, complex, and highly professional analysis of the search for WMD in Iraq and what the lack of evidence means.

September 26, 2004: Ridge announces security campaign that targets businesses

The U.S. Homeland Security department has announced a campaign to help small business owners plan in the event of an attack or disaster.

September 26, 2004: Ex-CENTCOM No. 2: Intel Showed Iraq Smuggled Out WMDs

Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong, the number two in command of the Iraq war until last September, has revealed that U.S. military intelligence had determined that WMD were being smuggled out of Iraq even as the United States forces were preparing to invade.

September 23, 2004: 15,000 chemical plants ripe targets for sabotage

Stroke of bureaucratic pen won't lessen risk of terrorism By RICK HIND and DAVID HALPERIN

September 1, 2004: Terror attacks continue in Russia

As more information is gathered about the terrorist attacks on two Russian airliners, a new attack is carried out in Moscow. The continuing terror give some clues about the continuing threat.

A sensational new suspicion by the Russian intelligence has it that the identification documents of at least two of the five suspected women suicide bombers were stolen after their legal and evidently innocent owners were murdered by the terrorists in Chechnya.

August 30, 2004: Small terrorist group takes credit for downing Russian planes, raises concerns worldwide

According to the Russian news organization Izvestia, responsibility for the downing on 24.8. the two Russian passenger airliners TU-134 and TU-154 was taken by a not well known Islamic terrorist group, The Islambuli Brigades, reports 'Izvestia".

August 30, 2004: Captured terrorist reveals plots for future attacks against US interests

Mohammed Junaid Babar, a Pakistani-American, who was arrested in Queens, N.Y. last April for his possible associations with an al Qaeda cell in England, was helping finance a group of Pakistani terrorists in London and plotting a series of bombings and assassinations. Also Other warnings target US medical facilities and large companies.

August 1, 2004: New threats to commerical and financial interests

"Credible intelligence" indicates that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city, according to New York Police Department statement.

August 1, 2004: Worries continue at Mexican border

The arrest of a woman "of Pakistani origin", who crossed into Texas illegally across the Mexican border, has heightened concerns about the increased flow of non-Hispanic illegals into the United States.

August 1, 2004: Alert Press Release

Terrorism Analyst Warns of Al-Qaeda Misdirection; Urges Discretion by Media

July 30, 2004: Illegal immigrants pouring over Mexican border include many Arabic-speaking men

This week one of the most startling items to appear in my inbox was an article called, "Breaking the Silence Over a Possible Imminent Threat."

July 23, 2004: Sept. 11 commission: Failure of imagination

The Sept. 11 commission concludes that a "failure of imagination," not governmental neglect, allowed 19 hijackers to carry out the deadliest terrorist attack in US history.

July 23, 2004: Companies step up e-mail surveillance By Jo Best

Large companies are now so concerned about the contents of the electronic communications leaving their offices that they're employing staff to read employees' outgoing e-mails.

July 19, 2004: C.I.A. sends terror experts to tell small towns of risk

The CIA and the FBI have begun dispatching counterterrorism experts to a dozen cities and small towns to warn of the possibility of an attack by Al Qaeda this year, government officials said this week.

July 19, 2004: FBI says al-Qaida could recruit non-Arabs for attacks on United States

The FBI has warned that Al-Qaida may be recruiting non-Arabs to carry out attacks inside the United States.

July 16, 2004: FBI Warning: Energy infrastructure target for terrorism

The FBI has issued a new alert to law-enforcement agencies, warning that al Qaeda might try to launch attacks on the U.S. energy infrastructure as part of a new terror offensive.

July 16, 2004: Window flaw could attract new worms and viruses

An epidemic of new worms and viruses threatens to exploit several new vulnerabilities that were disclosed by Microsoft on July 13.

July 14, 2004: CIA Acting Director: Terror threat highest since Sept. 11

US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Acting Director John McLaughlin claims that during this period of presidential elections the terror threat in the US has reached its highest level since the September 11 attacks.

July 14, 2004: 'Chempacks' for use against bioterror rushed to Boston

The Boston Globe reports that shipments of antidotes to bio-chemical attacks known as "chempacks" have been shipped to Boston and New York to ensure that both cities will have the kits in time for the Democratic and Republican conventions.

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