Domestic Antiterrorism: The FBI

The FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation) is only one of several federal organizations that is tasked to combat terrorism in the US. It's job is confined to the US by law but it does have "legal attaches" in US embassies in foreign countries. The FBI is one of the organizations that is part of the US Department of Justice whose leader is the US Attorney General. It has 33,652 employees, 13,249 of whom arre sworn agents and an annual budget of $7.9 billion.

The Mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold the criminal laws of the United States, to provide leadership and criminal justice Services to federal, state, municipal and internatinal agencies and partners.

Purpose of the Blog

Since terrorism has become a world wide problem, I thought I would establish this blog as a forum to chronicle acts of terrorism around the world and efforts and methods of combatting terror acts to aid the normal citizen in recognizing potential problems and alert them as to potential dangers. I hope that others will join in with personal experiences and information that they wish to share.