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September 24, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/nyregion/19intel.html

The Terror Translators

(New York Times) Alan Feuer - Inspire magazine, an English-language journal published by al-Qaeda, included in its summer edition a "Friends and Foes" list that included Mitchell D. Silber, director of the New York Police Department Intelligence Division's Analytic Unit, among its "foes." The team was created in 2002 as part of the city's response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, comprising two dozen civilian experts. The team serves as the Police Department's terrorism reference arm: available on demand to explain Islamic law or Pakistani politics to detectives in the field. "Our detectives tend to have a very narrow focus. But "the analysts have 360-degree visibility. They focus on the bigger picture, and they sometimes see things detectives don't see," Silber said.

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