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Article: FBI agents working overseas `critically important' in terror war.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 31, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ In an effort to attack terrorism, drug trafficking, organized crime and other threats at their roots, an unprecedented number of FBI agents are now working overseas, and FBI Director Robert Mueller says they are "critically important" to preventing more terrorist attacks.
FBI agents played key roles in investigating the murder this year of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. But the bureau's effectiveness is limited by a shortage of agents with language skills and foreign expertise and by relationships with foreign governments that range from reluctant cooperation to ...