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Show Monday, Aug. 28, '20061V [The Utah Statesman Special Features. FBI struggles to keep up with new 'terror' emphasis extremism or terrorist psyQuantico. Here, on a 385chology. acre portion of the giant In a graduation speech at Marine Corps base 40 miles the U.S. Military Academy QUANTICO, Va. south of Washington, D.C., at West Point this May, — In a classroom at the FBI is where 750 recruits this President Bush declared: Academy in Quantico, Va., .year will be imbued with the instructor Rodney Loose Was "We have transformed the FBI's culture, tested by physFBI into an agency whose trying to.introduce the hisical challenges and taught tory of Islam to a new group primary focus is stopping • basic skills in a nationally of future agents. He had one terrorism." But Loose's prerenowned law enforcement dicament goes to the heart of program. Here, too, terrorhour. whether the tradition-bound ism and intelligence experts The 50 men and women say, is where the bureau must would be joining the ranks of bureau, famously resistant translate the rhetoric of its an agency whose top officials to change, has fulfilled that mandate. director and the president have declared fighting terIn the aftermath of Sept. into a curriculum that prerorism to be its No. 1 priorpares future agents for a new ity. They listened intently as 11, some of the FBI's harshest critics concluded that mission. Loose rushed through his trying to restructure the topics: Sunnis and Shiites, Some changes in the agency was pointless and the Koran, Mecca and academy's approach are called instead for creating Medina, four-part Arabic evident. More recruits have names, and the five pillars of an entirely new domestic advanced degrees and stronintelligence agency. But FBI Islam. ger backgrounds in science Director Robert S. Mueller "Can you tell us about and computers. They no III convinced Congress and sleeper cells?" a recruit longer memorize the names the administration that the asked. of New York's five organizedbureau should be the lead crime families, and classes "I'm sorry, I don't think domestic counterterrorism on the mob, health-care we're going to have time to agency, combining tradition- fraud and white-collar crime get into this," a frustrated al law enforcement duties have been replaced by lecLoose said. "I wish I had with the intelligence-gather- tures and hands-on training more time to go through ing necessary to penetrate in investigative techniques. this. But it's just not posterrorist cells and prevent The agents-in-training stay sible." attacks. He promised the longer at Quantico than past Since the FBI came training would reflect that recruits to take the week of under withering criticism new role. new classes on terrorism and for its part in the intelliintelligence. gence community's failure Sen. Charles E, Grassley, to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, R-Iowa, a senior member of "It's way beyond what attacks on the World Trade the Judiciary Committee, it's been in the past," said Center and the Pentagon, the said the year after the Keith Slotter, the academy's bureau has added 37 hours attacks: "The FBI deserves a deputy assistant director for of counterterrorism training chance to get its act togethtraining. "We didn't have any at Quantico for new agents. er." He added: "But their intelligence training before But that represents just 5 time to move from investi9/11." percent of the curriculum, gating Bonnie-and-ClydeBut the majority of the and only one hour is about type crimes to preventing 701.5 hours is devoted, as Islam, Arabic culture and terrorist activities is getting it has been for decades, to understanding the terrorist shorter." traditional law enforcement mind-set. Last fall, the FBI granted skills, a fact that is underWith so little time, Loose a Washington Post reporter scored by the constant sound unprecedented post-9/11 could just make it through of gunfire from more than a access to a class of recruits Page 7 of his 14-page handdozen firing ranges. In all, as the students underwent out. No time to discuss 114.5 hours of training are 18 weeks of training at suicide bombers, Islamic Definitions & Facts Mecca BY SARI HORVVITZ The Washington Post •tfv - city in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that MusiWs pray tov ent shrine (cubical rand Mosque. LA Times photo RODNEY LOOSE, AN INSTRUCTOR at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., explains the importance of Mecca to agents-in-training during an abbreviated lecture on the history of Islam. When a recruit asked about sleeper cells, Loose responded, "I'm sorry, I don't think we're going to have time to get into this. 1 wish I had more time to go through this." devoted to learning to shoot. Additionally, 78 hours are dedicated to teaching arrest techniques and defensive tactics, and 36 hours to forensics. Recruits also undergo rigorous physical fitness tests, study law and ethics, learn to identify drugs, hone computer skills, and investigate a practice criminal case and present the evidence in moot court. FBI officials say the academy is "minting" new agents who need basic skills to enforce more than 200 federal statutes covering such diverse topics as public corruption, bank robberies and the protection of bald eagles. "We've got to do the same things the FBI has been doing forever and does very well," said Supervisory Special Agent John Kerr, Welcome Sack! Catch us at the Hub for soul soothing hot and cold beverages AND enjoy the same and more at our Historic Downtown Logan location where you can also enjoy our "Deli-icious" breakfasts and lunches AND we're open seven days a week. Our Triple Certified Coffees: Organic, Fair Trade and Shade Grown are roasted locally so you get the freshest, best tasting coffee possible. We call it chief of Quantico's physical training unit. "Look at the cases being made across the country, the same old-fashioned way. Interviews and informants on the street. Some of the rules have changed, but it's the same investigative strategy.... It's really the same bureau. The same FBI." To bureau critics, the approach is more appropriate for chasing John Dillinger than Osama bin Laden. They say the training shows that the FBI culture is still too focused on solving crimes after they occur and collecting evidence to support prosecution rather than working to recruit informants or develop intelligence about a terrorist cell before it can attack. "Chasing criminals, you have to be armed," said U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner, author of "Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11." Posner supports the idea of creating a separate domestic intelligence agency like Britain's MI5, which last week uncovered a plot to blow up as many as 10 planes bound for the United States. "You also have to know about bank robbers. You have to know rules of evidence. But there's this completely different job called gathering intelligence. That's snooping, not chasing criminals." 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