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Pakistani militants who have fought Indian troops in Kashmir and are reported to be linked to al-Qaeda.

FBI Agents Set to Fly to Mumbai



For more than six decades, the FBI has stationed agents and other personnel overseas to help protect Americans back home by building relationships with principal law enforcement, intelligence, and services around the globe and facilitating a prompt and continuous exchange of information.

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Today, the FBI has Legal Attaché offices -- commonly known as Legats -- and smaller sub-offices in 75 key cities around the globe, providing coverage for more than 200 countries, territories, and islands. Each office is established through mutual agreement with the host country and is situated in the U.S. embassy or consulate in that nation. According to a report submitted to the National Association of Chiefs of Police by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a team of agents was ordered to fly to India to investigate the militants who killed four Americans and injured at least two others during a wave of Terrorist assaults that occurred in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. US State Department officials were working out the final details Friday with Indian diplomats for the departure of the FBI team, according to Bureau officials. A second contingent of special agents was on alert to join them if necessary, according to NACOP. The investigators hope to learn more about the origins of the militants who carried out the lethal strikes on luxury hotels, a train station and an Orthodox Jewish center where a New York rabbi and his wife were among five hostages slain. An American and his teenage daughter traveling with a religious group from Virginia were among the 150 people killed during the coordinated terrorist operation. American officials were checking with members of the Indian government and hospital officials to learn more about the extent of casualties. A counterterrorism expert cautioned the news media that it was premature "to reach any hard-and-fast conclusions on who may be responsible for the attacks." But the official, who spoke on intelligence matters with the media on condition of anonymity, added that "some of what we're seeing is reminiscent of past terrorist operations undertaken by groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed." The two groups mentioned by the official are Pakistani militants who have fought Indian troops in Kashmir and are reported to be linked to al-Qaeda.


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Jim Kouri, CPP, is founder and CEO of Kouri Associates, a homeland security, public safety and political consulting firm. He’s formerly Fifth Vice-President, now a Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, an editor for ConservativeBase.com, a columnist for Examiner.com, a contributor to KGAB radio news, and news director for NewswithViews.com.

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