-Caveat Lector- What this article fails to report is that agents are also being taught that Christians and the Founding Fathers and patriots are also terrorists, and that the Constitution is a terrorist document. I am not making this up, it is on film, in "911-the Road to Tyranny", and from an official FBI Flyer sent out the Phoenix, AZ FBI office. ----------------------------
FBI Expands New Agent Training By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON Associated Press Writer August 27, 2002, 6:53 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- FBI agents are learning to read body language, understand Islamic fundamentalism and master other skills geared toward combating terrorism, part of the most significant change in training in more than half a century. Roger Trott, head of the FBI's new agent training program at Quantico, Va., said the amount of time new agents are trained in counterterrorism and counterintelligence will be more than doubled beginning in October -- from 23 hours to 55 hours. FBI basic training, which usually lasts 16 weeks, will be extended by a week to help accommodate the change. The FBI is also training some longtime agents to read body language, officials said. "Since Sept. 11, there has been an emphasis on preparing agents to deal with terrorism cases," Trott said. "It is very rare that time is added on to new agent training." FBI training generally has focused on physical conditioning and crime-solving techniques. Abilities like reading body language and dealing with foreign intelligence are now receiving more attention. "Training includes deciphering all the clues you can get -- not just what someone tells you in an interview, but all the signals they may give off," Trott said. Former FBI chief analyst Paul Moore said the expansion of basic training was necessary, but was skeptical about whether the FBI was doing enough. "It is significant, but compared to what we need, it is a drop in the ocean," said Moore, an analyst for the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, a private research firm. "What we need to do is focus on creating agents who have a better chance to intercept intelligence and disrupt operations. One week probably won't be enough to make a real change." The usefulness of agents who are trained in the basics of reading body language became clear as the FBI learned more about how terrorists operated in the country undetected before the Sept. 11 attacks. Two days before the attacks, for example, Ziad Jarrah roared past a Maryland State Police trooper at about 90 mph. He got the usual treatment: a ticket and a quick reprimand. That ticket was found crumpled up in the car's glove compartment at Newark Airport on Sept. 11, hours after Jarrah and three others hijacked an airliner that crashed in western Pennsylvania. Law enforcement officials, while being careful not to suggest the officer should have done anything differently, say the story illustrates that chance encounters can be important. David Givens, director of the Center for Nonverbal Studies in Spokane, Wash., said it's relatively easy to learn the basics about body language. "It's like any other language -- you can get a few basic words that will help you with easy situations very quickly," Givens said. "Getting a working knowledge of the more subtle points can take years." Givens said it's likely that terrorists give off obvious signs of anxiety before they attack. "There are certain human responses to great pressure that cannot be easily controlled, if you accept the idea that they can be controlled at all," Givens said. "It can be an effective law enforcement tool." The FBI is also expanding training about Islamic fundamentalism. In the hunt for al-Qaida members, the FBI has turned up troves of computer records, operation manuals and other documents, most of which are in Arabic. Translating the documents has been a slow process, according to Justice Department officials, but making use of the translated data is equally difficult. It took the FBI three months to discover a picture of Saud Abdulaziz Saud al-Rasheed among pictures of the Sept. 11 hijackers in one trove of al-Qaida documents. The agency immediately issued a public alert with al-Rasheed's picture, seeking information on his possible whereabouts. A senior Justice Department official acknowledged the FBI is trying to expand its ability to assess information in Arabic. Juliette Kayyem, a terrorism expert and professor at Harvard University, said the new training will only be useful if it focuses on behavior. "The FBI gets into the most trouble when it views a certain belief as dangerous," Kayyem said. "The behavior training or training that focuses on dealing with people from other cultures is good, but when agents begin to focus on belief systems you just get widespread alienation in the communities where you most need help." * __ On the Net: FBI: http://www.fbi.gov Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press -end article- -------------------- -iNFoWaRZ Gubmint luvs you! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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