(U//FOUO) The Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC) conducted a preliminary analysis of the approximately 30 pieces of evidence recovered after the 25 December 2009 attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253. The evidence consisted of a plastic syringe initiator with traces of Ethyl Glycol, a main charge of 76 grams of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) wrapped in a container made of thin soft “plastic” film-like material and tape and clothing worn by the bomber. The underwear worn by the bomber was modified to provide storage of the main charge which was anatomically congruent, possibly to avoid detection during screening. The underwear sustained thermal damage. Blue jeans worn by the bomber also sustained thermal damage (scorching) on the inside with small spots of melted plastic on the outside surface.
United States
Department of Homeland Security
DHS Senior Leadership Brief 7.0 Earthquake Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Current Situation
* US Army 82nd Airborne sending personnel to provide security.
* FAA reports airport operational 24/7 for humanitarian/military flights under visual flying rules (VFR) only.
o SOUTHCOM en route to establish air traffic control service and security; ETA 2100 EST 14 Jan.
o US personnel control airport with Haitian controllers providing air traffic support; runway lights fully operational; half of terminal lights working.
* A 14-member United Nations (UN) team with the UN Assistant Secretary General scheduled to arrive 15 Jan.
* Open source reports UN Mission Chief and his deputy are deceased (unconfirmed).
o Chilean General Service Unit to assume UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
* FEMA reports main prison collapsed; 4,000 prisoners escaped; no requests for U.S. public safety assistance or guidance.
* Two US citizens (embassy personnel) still unaccounted for.
* Two USCG C-130s, with capacity to evacuate 140 individuals, scheduled to depart Port-au-Prince for Santo Domingo at 1000 EST 14 Jan; may be able to conduct two additional evacuations throughout the day.
New York
NYPD Law Enforcement Sensitive Mumbai Attack Analysis
On the evening of November 26, 2008, ten (10) terrorists executed multiple coordinated attacks using automatic weapons and hand grenades on various “soft targets”, such as hotels and restaurants, in Mumbai, India. The operational modus operandi of this terrorist attack constitutes a major shift in the traditional terrorist tactics of using suicide operatives and planted explosive devices, to the execution of a well planned “commando” type military assault using automatic weapons, hand grenades and urban combat tactics, intended to inflict the maximum number of casualties.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI (U//FOUO/LES) Criminals Using FBI Techniques to Steal Money
(U//FOUO/LES) On November 21, 2008, subject was pulled over by members of the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) for traffic violations and other suspicious activity. After giving officers consent to search his vehicle, Subject was found to be in
possession of multiple items suggestive of his participation in health care fraud. These items included: multiple pre-signed blank checks from medical companies, a fake driver’s license, and credit cards for medical companies in other individual’s names.
Defense Intelligence Agency
DIA (U//FOUO) Haiti: Health Risks and Health System Impacts Associated With Large-Scale Earthquake
(U) NCMI assesses with high confidence that health care in Haiti is by far the poorest in the Western Hemisphere and on par with that of the less developed African countries. Furthermore, health care availability and accessibility, trauma care, and medical logistics are inadequate to respond to and mitigate the current disaster. Port-au-Prince inpatient and trauma capacity is already overburdened. Haiti is still recovering from the 2008 hurricane season, and the 12 January earthquake only worsened the already poor health situation and damaged the country’s already degraded health care system, which will require years to rebuild. Although major outbreaks of infectious diseases are unlikely as a result of the earthquake, incidences of diarrhea, respiratory diseases, and other infectious diseases likely will increase among local populations. Fires and explosions at facilities storing petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) are the greatest industrial chemical health threats. Chemicals released from damaged POL facilities are expected to cause localized contamination of soil and surface water.
Department of Homeland Security, United Nations
UN/USAID Hospital and Field Medical Locations – Port Au Prince, Haiti
UN/USAID Hospital and Field Medical Locations in Port Au Prince, Haiti as of January 26, 2010.
Department of Homeland Security, United Nations
UN/USAID Damage Assessment and Field Medical Locations – Port Au Prince, Haiti
UN/USAID Damage Assessment and Field Medical Locations in Port Au Prince, Haiti as of January 26, 2010.
Department of State
U.S. State Department: Terrorist Tactics – Attack on Indian Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan
(SBU) In the early-morning hours of July 7, a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) detonated outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The explosion killed 60 people and injured over 100. This was the deadliest terrorist attack in Kabul since the Taliban government was ousted from power in 2001. This issue of Terrorist Tactics describes how this well-planned attack was carried out and how it possibly could have been avoided if host-country security personnel manning the checkpoint near the embassy were more aggressive in their vehicle inspections. As of this report, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Department of Homeland Security
DHS TRIPwire Quick-Look Report: Holocaust Museum Shooting, 10 June, 2009
* James W. von Brunn, a Holocaust denier reported to be in his late 80s, walked into the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC and shot a security guard with a .22 caliber rifle on 10 June 2009
* In 1981 von Brunn served six years in prison for attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve board due to anger over high interest rates
* Von Brunn has been charged with murder and killing in the course of possessing a firearm at a federal facility, both capital offenses under federal law
* The Department of Homeland Security has categorized the shooting as a criminal incident and said it does not appear to have a connection to terrorism. The attack is being investigated as a hate crime
Texas
Law Enforcement Guide to Texas Street Gangs
This booklet is published by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Criminal Intelligence Service, with the cooperation of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Security Threat Group Management Office. It is being provided as a resource to assist law enforcement agencies and correctional staff in identifying possible members of Security Threat Groups (STGs) and is not to be disseminated outside your agency.
Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation
DHS/FBI (U//FOUO) Potential Terrorist Attack Methods
Under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center (HITRAC) has the responsibility to produce assessments that support the strategic planning needed to enhance the protection and preparedness of the Nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKRs). HITRAC analyzed information about terrorist attack capabilities, goals, and objectives to assess the potential terrorist attack methods that might be used against CIKRs.
U.S. Army
TRADOC DCSINT Handbook 4 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS)
PURPOSE:
•TO PROVIDE DEPLOYING UNITS A TRAINING TOOL FOR IED IDENTIFICATION.
•TO DEPICT IN PHOTOGRAPHIC FORM, VARIOUS EXAMPLES OF THE IED THREAT AND COMMON IED COMPONENTS FROM CONFLICTS AROUND THE WORLD.
•TO DISCUSS IED FACTS & INDICATORS.
U.S. Northern Command
USNORTHCOM Joint Task Force North Special Interest Aliens Handbook
This smart book was compiled by Joint Task Force North in response to a support request by the United States Border Patrol. The purpose is to provide the Department of Homeland Security with a basic reference and questioning guide to determine the validity of an apprehended individual’s stated country of origin and to assist in identifying those that are Special Interest Aliens (SIAs). Customs and Border Protection identifies thirty-four countries and two territories as special interest countries. This is current as of March 1, 2008.
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives
ATF (CUI) School Firearms Related Violence and Incidents Overview 2005-2007
The purpose of this report is to provide information as it relates to the phenomenon of school firearms violence. This report provides an overview of school firearms violence, and through the examination of ATF case information, attempts have been made to possibly identify the kinds of individuals who are most likely to commit and/or plan a school firearms violence incident.
Intelligence Fusion Centers, New Jersey
The Potential Terrorist Risk of Drinking Water Contamination
Domestic terrorist groups have historically threatened, and in some cases have executed contamination of drinking water systems. Such groups are likely to continue targeting the Water Sector in the future. These groups include, but are not limited to, hate groups, eco-terrorists, antigovernment and religiously motivated groups. International terrorist groups, specifically Islamic extremists such as al Qaeda, have shown interest in contaminating US drinking water.
Department of Homeland Security
(U//FOUO) Threats to College Sports and Entertainment Venues and Surrounding Areas
(U//FOUO) The Department of Homeland Security/Office of Intelligence and Analysis, the South Carolina Information and Intelligence Center, and the Michigan Intelligence Operations Center, in coordination with the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, and Michigan State University, have prepared the following threat assessment to assist security planners and law enforcement personnel in monitoring threat information and maintaining a safe and secure event environment for U.S. college sports and entertainment venues and surrounding areas. These areas include entrance and egress routes to the venue, local hotels, restaurants and bars, and parking lots where crowds gather.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Iraq Office Locations Map
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Iraq Office Locations Map, November 1, 2009.
Open Source Center
Open Source Center Digital Audio Video Enterprise Brochure
Open Source Center Digital Audio Video Enterprise Brochure, December 3, 2008.
FEMA
Mount Weather
The Mount Weather Special Facility is a Continuity of Government (COG) facility operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The 200,000 square foot facility also houses FEMA’s National Emergency Coordinating Center. The site is located on a 434 acre mountain site on the borders of Loudon and Clarke counties, approximately 48 miles west of Washington, DC in Bluemont, Virginia. The above ground support facilities include about a dozen buildings providing communications links to the White House Situation Room.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Orlando AAF, Toxic Gas Yard Chemical Warfare Materiel Scoping and Security Study Report
The former Orlando AAF, Toxic Gas and Decontamination Yard is located approximately three miles northeast of the Orlando International Airport, east of the City of Orlando, in Orange County, Florida.
U.S. Army
CALL Handbook: Convoy Leader Training
The purpose of this handbook is to provide a quick-reference TTP guide for convoy commanders and their subordinates on how to train for and conduct tactical convoy operations on the asymmetric battlefield in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
U.S. Secret Service
U.S. Secret Service Network Intrusion Responder Program (NITRO) Course
The Network Intrusion Responder Program (NITRO) was designed by the U.S. Secret Service’s National Computer Forensics Institute to introduce law enforcement officers to basic network intrusion investigation techniques.
U.S. Air Force
Comparative U.S.-Israeli Homeland Security
This report compares United States and Israeli homeland security practices. Its purpose is to determine whether there are lessons from Israeli experience that might enhance U.S. homeland security efforts. The research for this study included a literature review as well as field interviews with American and Israeli elites in Washington, D.C., and Israel during the summer of 2005. The principle investigator met with key Israeli homeland security and counterterrorism experts in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ramla, and Hertzilya.
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives
ATF North Carolina Explosives Theft Warning
On October 23, 2008, ATF received notification of an explosives theft from B.R.S. Inc. B.R.S. advised that sometime between October 20th and October 23rd, unknown suspect(s) cut the locks to their Type II storage magazine and stole two cases of ORICA Magnum Ultra HW. The stolen explosives are described as being 2” by 16” sticks and were distributed among two cases. A full case weighs approximately 55 pounds. After an inventory reconciliation was conducted, it was determined that approximately 88 pounds of Magnum Ultra HW was stolen.
Customs and Border Protection
DHS Deceased Internal Cocaine Smuggling Photos
On 6/21/2007, Juan Carlos GOMEZ arrived at Miami International Airport from Bogota, Colombia, on Avian flight #008. Passenger GOMEZ presented himself for inspection to CBPO Ortiz at Passport Control at 2311 hrs. CBPO Ortiz admitted GOMEZ as a USC and referred him to Baggage Control Secondary to verify his parole status as Ortiz indicated prior drug arrest. At approximately 2335 hrs GOMEZ presented his CBP form 6059B to the primary baggage control officer and was escorted to baggage secondary for further examination. The floor coordinator was informed of the situation and assigned CBPO Medrano to conduct GOMEZ’s secondary inspection at 2340 hrs. SCBPOs Adan and Sanfilippo were also informed of GOMEZ’s record.