They are going to copy MI5 play book! Maybe they will get to meet Mr. Aswat!
"FBI realigning its counterterrorism division; Approach will mimic aspects of Britain's MI5
By John Solomon, Washington Post | September 30, 2007
WASHINGTON - The FBI has begun the most comprehensive realignments of its counterterrorism division in six years so it can better detect the growing global collaborations by terrorists and dismantle larger terrorist enterprises, according to senior bureau officials.
[Why should that be necessary? They are RUNNING THEM!
Ever hear of about the British agents who are the stars of the Prop 201 tutorial?]
The bureau will merge its two international terrorism units - one for Osama bin Laden's followers and the other for more established groups such as Hezbollah - into a new structure that borrows both from Britain's MI5 domestic intelligence agency and the bureau's own successful efforts against organized-crime families, Joseph Billy Jr., the FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism, said in an interview.
[Talk about your GLOBAL GOVERNMENT at work!
So they are going to do what, FRAME HEZBOLLAH now?
What has Hezbollah done other than KICK ISRAEL'S ASS?
I guess that's why they make the list, 'eh?
To be blamed for the next "terror attack" so we can BOMB IRAN!!
NOT FOOLEYED anymore, shitters!]
The new approach is meant to channel raw intelligence and threat information through "desk officers" with expertise on specific world regions or terrorist groups, allowing those individuals to spot trends and set investigative strategies for field agents and joint terrorism task forces that collaborate with local law enforcement, Billy said.
[You mean, like cooking the bomb for the first WTC attack in 1993?]
That change emulates aspects of Britain's MI5, which bureau critics and members of the Sept. 11 commission have frequently cited as a model for fighting domestic terrorism. "We want to place these people together so the intelligence is being shared across each way, left, right, up, and down, and that, in turn, will help drive the tactical aspect of how we focus our resources," Billy said.
[And CREATING IT, too!!!!]
Borrowing from its mob-busting strategies in the 1980s, the bureau will encourage counterterrorism agents to forgo immediate arrests when an imminent threat is not present, allowing the surveillance of terrorism suspects to last longer. The aim is to identify collaborators, facilitators, and sympathizers who increasingly span across multiple groups and countries, Billy said.
"We want to be in a position where we have [threats in] not only one area of the country identified but have the entire picture that may be taking place throughout the United States identified and . . . strategically focus our resources in a way that would give us the better chance of dismantling a group, as opposed to only identifying one aspect of a much larger threat," Billy said.
Counterterrorism agents were told about the changes in a closed-door meeting at headquarters two weeks ago, but no public announcement has been made. FBI officials hope to complete the realignments by year's end, but they acknowledge that many details remain to be worked out.
The changes have been driven partly by a growing number of FBI cases involving self-styled terrorist cells inside the United States that were inspired by Al Qaeda and bin Laden but receive support, advice or encouragement from disparate sympathizers across the globe, making group allegiances far less important.
"You don't want to limit yourself to just assuming that one person who is a member of a certain terrorist group won't particularly try to recruit or bring into the fold others overseas," Billy said.
FBI Director Robert Mueller mentions the connections between two men in Georgia charged with terrorism support, 17 suspects rounded up in Canada in a bombing plot, and terrorist investigations in Britain, Denmark, and Bangladesh. The defendants' ethnicities are diverse, including Somali, Egyptian, Jamaican, and Trinidadian, officials said.
Officials said the suspects were linked by a lengthy investigation involving US allies that tested the FBI's ability to keep collecting intelligence beyond the traditional point, when arrests might have been made in the past.
The effort required diplomacy with cooperating countries that became concerned that the terrorist cells might be moving toward an operational phase. A meeting was held last winter among international law enforcement agencies to decide when arrests should be made in each country and how to keep surveillance going, officials said.
Other cases have also produced evidence of terrorist groups transcending borders and group affiliations. Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, a Yemeni cleric, was recently sentenced to 75 years in prison on charges that included conspiring to support both Al Qaeda and the Palestinian group Hamas. The cleric was caught in 2003 when FBI informants met with Moayad in Germany and secretly recorded him promising to arrange money for both groups. An FBI affidavit detailed how the sheik moved easily between Hamas and Al Qaeda circles, including meeting bin Laden.
[As always an FBI informant in the center of the cases: the AGENT PROVOCATEURS!!!!]
David Laufman, a former Justice Department lawyer who prosecuted several of the government's major terrorism cases since the 2001 attacks said in an interview: "The Internet has become the most significant recruiting device for multinational sources of Jihadist talent. It cuts across nationalities and ethnicities."
[About CONTROL, not "terror!"
Because the Islamic websites are located in Texas and Maryland!]
But Laufman, who is now in private practice, cautioned that the FBI reorganization must "overcome the agent culture of the bureau" and allow intelligence analysts to drive the case agents, much like MI5's domestic intelligence, which drives the investigations of Scotland Yard in Britain.
"The key to making this successful is to build a first-class analytical cadre, give counterterrorism analysts equivalent stature to agents in the FBI's counterterrorism culture, and create an environment where analysts and agents continuously and seamlessly work together to identify relationships, sources of funding and operational plotting," Laufman said.
Specialists said the bureau's future success also depends on attracting more Arabic speakers and intelligence analysts, and keeping them long enough to develop deep subject expertise."
[So you can what, plant more informants to drive dumb shit patsies to show trials, FBI?
WE AIN'T BE FOOLEYED NO MORE, chumps!!!]
