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Journal of Civil Defense JJOOUURRNNAALL OOFF CCIIVVIILL DDEEFFEENNSSEE Volume 36, Issue #11-12 Combined November/December 2003 TACDA Officers: Nancy D. Greene ‘We Got Him’ – Bremer Announces Saddam’s Capture (President) By Jim Garamone Sharon B. Packer American Forces Press Service (Vice-President) Kathy Eiland WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2003 – With three words -- "We got him" – (Executive Director) Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III announced at a press briefing in Baghdad today that U.S. forces had captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near Regina Frampton his hometown of Tikrit. Saddam was taken into custody at a small mud- (Secretary/Treasurer) walled compound outside the village of Adwar at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 13. Board of Directors: About 600 members of the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, along with Nancy D. Greene Sharon B. Packer special operations forces, launched Operation Red Dawn after receiving Kathy Eiland intelligence that Saddam was in the area, said Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Regina Frampton Sanchez, commander of coalition forces in the country. Dr. Gerald L. Looney Frank L. Williams Bremer, the coalition administrator, said it was a "great day" in Iraq's history. "For decades, Kevin G. Briggs hundreds of thousands of you suffered at the hands of this cruel man," he said. "For decades, Bronius Cikotas Saddam Hussein divided citizens against each other. For decades, he threatened and attacked Art Robinson your neighbors. Those days are over forever." The ambassador called on Iraqis to look to the Editor: future. He urged those who supported Saddam to reexamine their views and cooperate to build TACDA Staff a new Iraq. "Your future has never been more full of hope," he said Inside This Issue: Sanchez described the operation that captured Saddam. The general said it was a cordon-and- search operation, and coalition forces sustained no casualties. In fact, he said, coalition forces ‘We Got Him’, by Jim Garamone never fired a shot. "For the last several months, a combination of human intelligence tips, Countering the al-Qaeda WMD exceptional intelligence analytical efforts and detainee interrogations narrowed down the Threat, by Jack Boureston and activities of Saddam Hussein," Sanchez said. Charles Mahaffey Sanchez said intelligence pointed to two likely spots where Saddam could be hiding. He said Helping Children Cope with the Americans struck with lightning speed under cover of darkness. The troops initially did not Disaster, by FEMA find Saddam. "As a result, the 1st Brigade Combat Team elected to cordon the area and conduct Terrorism Preparedness in State an extensive search," Sanchez said. "Coalition forces subsequently found a suspicious location." Health Deptartment, by CDC In the search, U.S. forces discovered a "spider hole." Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report "After uncovering the spider hole, a search was conducted and Saddam Hussein was found hiding at the bottom of the hole," Sanchez said. "Saddam was captured without resistance." TACDA Partners with HomelandPlans Coalition forces moved the former Iraqi dictator to a secure area, and he has undergone medical Forging America’s New tests and questioning. Bremer said Saddam was "cooperative and talkative." Coalition forces Normalcy also uncovered some weapons and $750,000 in $100 bills. Two other Iraqis were detained. NASA Funded Earth Alert Sanchez showed a video of the spider hole and then showed Saddam undergoing medical tests. System to Aid MEMA in Iraqi journalists at the press conference erupted at the sight of Saddam, shaking their fists and Disasters, Maryland Emergency shouting "Death to Saddam." The Iraqi dictator had a full beard and looked disheveled. Management Agency Remembering Cresson Kearny Saddam will continue to be held at an undisclosed location. The determination on how to try 1914-2003 Saddam will be made later. The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA) P.O. Box 1057, 118 Court Street, Starke, Florida 32091 Toll-free (800) 425-5397 or Direct (904) 964-5397 Online at www.tacda.org [The Journal of Civil Defense is the official monthly newsletter of The American Civil Defense Association.] Strategic Insight: Countering the al-Qaeda WMD Threat By Jack Boureston and Charles Mahaffey Center for Contemporary Conflict Naval Postgraduate School November 2003 The threat of al-Qaeda's use of weapons of mass to thwart future activities and expose terrorist safe destruction is real. During the 1990s, al-Qaeda used its havens. significant financial resources and global support network to pursue the acquisition of nuclear, biological, Law Enforcement. Law enforcement agencies are chemical and radiological weapons. As the terrible taking extra measures to track down and arrest al-Qaeda events of September 11, 2001 demonstrated, the group is members. Recently, FBI Director Robert Mueller visited unrestrained by moral proscriptions against devastating, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to indiscriminate violence against civilians. The attacks on discuss how to more actively pursue al-Qaeda members. New York and Washington DC also reveal the group's For example, Mueller discussed how the United States ability to use the infrastructure of the target country as a and Pakistan could collaborate more closely to capture weapon. Earlier analysis has shown that the critical Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives hiding in the tribal zone infrastructure of the United States, including its nuclear along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.[2] and chemical facilities, as well as its shipping and International cooperation among law enforcement transport networks, contain glaring vulnerabilities, agencies has resulted in the capture and detention of over which, if exploited in an al-Qaeda attack, could result in 3000 al-Qaeda operatives in over 100 countries. In casualties even beyond what the world witnessed on Pakistan alone, approximately 500 al-Qaeda suspects September 11, with or without weapons of mass were arrested, with 346 of them handed over to the destruction. [1] United States. On June 12, French police arrested suspected al-Qaeda leader Christian Ganczarski for his Countering the Threat: Homeland Security alleged involvement in the 2002 attack on a Tunisian What is the United States doing to counter al-Qaeda's synagogue. Ganczarski, an electronics and elusive and amorphous threat of mass destruction? telecommunications expert, is thought to have been in Shortly after 9/11, the United States began seeking ways contact with Osama bin-Laden and may have been to protect itself against the terrorist threat. The involved in the 9/11 attacks.[3] Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is one result. DHS endeavors to coordinate the activities of previously The DHS is also attempting to prevent terrorists from disparate domestic agencies into one department to using cargo containers to smuggle chemical, biological protect the nation against threats to the homeland. The or nuclear weapons into the United States. It has placed DHS has developed its strategy around increasing its teams of U.S. inspectors at major seaports in Middle internal security, global presence, and international Eastern nations and at other smaller, strategically located intelligence efforts. The United States has also organized ports. The inspectors have radiation monitors, chemical a global coalition to fight terrorism on five fronts: detectors, and other equipment to inspect what might be diplomatic, intelligence, law enforcement, financial, and considered "high-risk" containers. This is part of a two- military. phase program, the first of which began shortly after 9/11 and focused on twenty large container ports in Diplomatic. The United States has built a truly global Europe and Asia. Currently, there are over 130 coalition, developing new counterterrorism partnerships inspectors working overseas and another 170 more are in with Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Central Asian training to join them. The second phase will see teams republics, and others. The United States also is placed in Dubai, Malaysia, Turkey, and other nations collaborating to combat terrorism with such nations as with large Muslim populations.[4] Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. The extent to which the March Recently, the DHS has opened a new office to deal with 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has impacted potential hand-held missile threats to the aircraft outside these latter relationships, however, remains to be seen. of the United States. Acting on intelligence reports, DHS agents have inspected airports in Iraq, Greece, Turkey, Intelligence. The United States and its allies have and the Philippines. So far the results of these activities expanded intelligence sharing and cooperation to have not been published. effectively preempt and combat terrorism all over the world. Intelligence gathered from captured enemy Financial. UN Security Council Resolution 1373 combatants and imprisoned terrorists is being exploited obligates nations to freeze the assets of terrorists and to prohibit anyone in the country from providing financial possible terrorist plots and prevent possible attacks. As or other material assistance to terrorists or their Dr. Joshua Sinai of ANSER wrote, "Failing to anticipate supporters. So far over 166 countries have issued orders the attacks of 11 September represented more than a freezing more than $121 million in terrorist-related failure of intelligence—it was a failure of financial assets. The 29-nation Financial Action Task imagination."[6] Sinai has developed
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