MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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FBI Calls In The Army To Fix Its Counterterrorism Training
By artappraiser on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 1:33am |By Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room @ wired.com, November 3, 2011
....The Bureau has turned to the Army’s Combating Terrorism Center at West Point to scour the FBI’s training materials, after Danger Room revealed that Bureau specialists were teaching agents that “mainstream” Muslims were likely to be “violent” and radical.” The West Point request represents a frank admission from the FBI that it requires outside help to reform.
The Combating Terrorism Center earns high praise from counterterrorism experts as a haven for rigorous, practical scholarship on terrorism and Islamic extremism. Its researchers consider themselves to be the opposite of analysts like William Gawthrop, the FBI intelligence analyst who compared Islam to the Death Star and Mohammed to a “cult leader.” The CTC experts’ challenge, as they themselves see it, is to undo the work of Gawthrop and his allies....
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