Is the FBI doing its best to combat terrorism? - Highest-ranking Arab-American agent says no, sues..

[Kadie]

Is the FBI doing its best to combat terrorism?
Highest-ranking Arab-American agent says no, sues for discrimination

By Lisa Myers, Jim Popkin & the NBC News Investigative Unit
Updated: 11 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Bassem Youssef is the FBI's highest-ranking Arab-American agent. He's fluent in Arabic, ran the FBI's offices in Saudi Arabia and is a terrorism expert. In fact, Youssef's undercover work helping to infiltrate the terror organization of the so-called "blind sheik," Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, earned him the intelligence community's most-prestigious award, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal.

But now, for the first time, Youssef is speaking out against the agency he loves.

"I don't believe that the FBI's doing everything it can to combat terrorism," the 18-year FBI veteran tells NBC News.

Though he's one of only six FBI agents with advanced Arabic skills, Youssef believes that, since 9/11, the FBI has blocked him from playing a significant role in the war on terror. He claims discrimination, and sued the FBI in 2003.

"To be totally set aside, blackballed since 9/11, makes absolutely no sense," he says.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16042604/

[nam78_two]

1. K&R

Color me surprised :eyes:

[BeHereNow]

2. What is he thinking?

Has he not yet figured out that the people who
benefit most from "terra-ism" have no use
for people who actually try to prevent it?
Silly man.
He really should call Sibel Edmunds and get the
facts to correct his thinking!
BHN