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| Citing Mumbai Attack, Report Says |
| Citing Mumbai Attack, Report Says FBI Needs to Improve
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 26-March-2015
12:4:55 PM |
| Citing the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack and four other cases, a report has concluded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has made strides in the past decade but needs faster reforms to transform itself into a threat-based, intelligence-driven organisation.
One of the key plotters of 26/11, the terror assault on Mumbai, Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, the report noted "had previously come to the attention of the US law enforcement authorities but the FBI officials repeatedly concluded that Mr Headley did not pose a threat at the time."
"The increasingly complex and dangerous threat environment it faces will require no less," said the report by the FBI 9/11 Review Commission which studied FBI investigations into five "significant terrorism events." In none of those cases did a confidential source "provide actionable intelligence to help prevent or respond to a terrorist operation," the report released on Wednesday said.
The principal authors of the report were Bruce Hoffman, a professor of security studies at Georgetown University; Edwin Meese III, the former attorney general; and Timothy J Roemer, a former ambassador to India.
In December 2007, Mr Headley's Moroccan wife complained to US officials at the US embassy in Islamabad that her husband was a terrorist. But the FBI investigation of Mr Headley did not begin until 2009, and it was triggered by a tip that originated outside the FBI that revealed his relationships with extremists abroad, the report said.
"One of the main lessons from the Headley case is that absent an intelligence effort across the US Intelligence Community to understand the connections among cases and complaints across field offices, relevant intelligence may fall by the wayside," it said.
News outlets, it noted, have reported, prior to his terrorist activities, Mr Headley had worked as a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant in the late 1990s and the early 2000s,
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