FBI Expands Global Reach and Faces Culture Clashes
The FBI now runs 44 overseas offices with 19 opened in five years, aiding prosecutions from Africa embassy bombings to Italian drug cases. Director Mueller seeks to repair an image of arrogance while Yemen tensions flare over the Cole investigation, and overseas operatives confront cybercrime as a growing threat to the world economy.
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Global mission Tre FBI offices span continents in covert work
The FBI expanded its foreign presence since the 1940s with offices across Africa Asia Europe and the Americas. Under Louis Freeh from 1993 the force doubled agents trained abroad and cultivated cop to cop ties aiding high profile arrests including 1998 Kenya Tanzania embassy bombings and 1999 Mir Kasi case while local police credited FBI for modern equipment and crucial help.
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Front seat risk for kids in cars study shows progress
A Harvard analysis of 28 000 fatal crashes from 1990 to 1998 found front seating for children 12 and under fell from 42 percent to 31 percent though many still ride upfront. Co author Eve Wittenberg notes rear seat offers safer impact distance in frontal crashes.
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