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CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES

A Global Threat Mitigation Firm

4 May 2010 Washington, D.C. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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MIDDLE EAST BRIEFS

Al-QAEDA strategies for these Middle East- RUSSIA

Special points of inter- ern terrorists are of their own
est: Middle Eastern terrorism A relatively cheap, “extra-
textbook proprietary modus op-
 Al-QAEDA CONTIN- continues to churn its tenta- smart, easy-to-use Club-K
erandi, or whether they borrow
UES TO MORPH AND cles on a global level. Al- Container Missile System,”
REINVENT STRAT-
Qaeda continues to be the the innovative initiatives of Latin
EGY 1 which Moscow has put on
premier threat, although after American narco-terrorists and
 FORMER PAKISTANI taking significant leadership DTOs. In either scenario, there the open market, allows
INTELLIGENCE OFFI- losses to strategic and proac- are vast resources available cruise missiles concealed
CERS KILLED 1
tive interdiction. through kidnapping for ransom, in freight containers to be
 SYRIA AND IRAN A drug trafficking, and related launched from a preposi-
FORMIDABLE Let it be clear that Al-Qaeda tioned or moving land or
THREAT 1 transnational organized crime.
remains a dedicated and ca- sea platform. It is virtually
 RUSSIA OFFERS pable threat as evidenced by
undetectable by radar until
“CHEAP” MISSILE recent events in Yemen and
SYSTEM 1 Saudi Arabia with strategic activated. Venezuela and
attacks on security forces, as SYRIA and IRAN Iran appeared to have sig-
 CIA PLACES INTELLI-
GENCE ANALYSTS well as the assassination at- nificant interest when the
CLOSE TO THE AC- tempt on the Saudi’s Coun- US and Israeli defense chiefs
Club-K was put on the
TION 1 terterrorism Director. Robert Gates and Ehud Barak
open market at the Defense
told reporters at the end of their
Services Asia exhibition in
Within Al-Qaeda’s leader- talks in the Pentagon on April
Malaysia recently.
ship, as in any corporate-like 27: "Syria and Iran are providing
ADDITIONAL READING hierarchy, funding becomes a Hezbollah with rockets of ever- __________
critical impasse when there is increasing capability. This is
http://mexidata.info/ a disruption in the order of obviously destabilizing for the WASHINGTON
id1911.html business. Planning opera- whole region and we're watching
tional acts requires recruiting, it very carefully" - Gates; and The Central Intelligence
http://mexidata.info/ training, and related logistics. "We do not intend to provoke Agency is reporting to have
id1322.html One wonders if funding any kind of major collision in hundreds of intelligence
Lebanon or with Syria, but are analysts on the ground in
http://mexidata.info/ watching closely these develop- “overseas assignments.”
id1306.html PAKISTAN
ments" This from the previous
A “sympathetic to Al-Qaeda network and practice of
http://mexidata.info/ and Taliban” former Paki- Iran continues to be the fore- primarily Langley-based
id1665.html stani intelligence officer was most state sponsor of terrorism, initiatives, into clandestine
found dead last week in a supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, operations in dangerous
northwestern tribal region. and other groups. Syria has also areas. This, a very strate-
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He had been shot. He is provided material and political gic and proactive opera-
believed to have been previ- support to Hezbollah in Lebanon tional strategy placing ana-
ously abducted., along with and allowed Iran to resupply it lytical information special-
Jbrewer@cjiausa.org another “ex-intelligence offi- with weapons. Iran’s support for ists near the “ground” deci-
Twitter: cjiausa cer.” The area is under in- terrorist and militant groups re- sion makers.
tense U.S. pressure from mis- mains a prolific global threat.
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jbrewer31 forces.