(Washington Post) Sari Horwitz - Israeli security experts have been traveling across the U.S. to share counterterrorism tactics with American law enforcement officials. In addition, since the 9-11 terrorist attacks, agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with police officials, sheriffs, and bomb technicians, have been traveling to Israel for weeklong lessons on terrorism. Classes include the history of Islamic fundamentalism and how to spot a suicide bomber. Seminars teach the Americans how to gather deeper intelligence, interrupt bomb supply lines, and discover where terrorists might hide explosives. "Israel is the Harvard of anti-terrorism," said U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer. After returning from Israel, Gainer retrained his officers to shoot a potential suicide bomber in the head rather than aim for the chest, as they were originally taught, because shooting the chest could detonate a suicide vest.
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