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Ask CNN: How Has U.S. Managed Past Terrorism Issues?

Aired October 20, 2001 - 08:38   ET

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ANNOUNCER: Kurt Chun from Mill Valley, California asks: "In the past, how has the United States managed the issues of terrorism?"

MIKE BROOKS, FORMER FBI COUNTER-TERRORISM TASK FORCE MEMBER: Kurt, the United States manages instances of terrorism very well. Here in the United States domestically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, is in charge of the crisis management of a terrorist incident and the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA is involved in the consequence management.

After an incident happens, the FBI begins their investigation and at the same time the Federal Emergency Management Agency starts to try to get the United States back to a sense of normalcy.

Now, on the international side, we have the Bureau of Diplomatic Security that deals specifically with incidents of terrorism overseas. Now, the FBI, by statute, can investigate and bring back terrorists from overseas who have harmed or killed Americans, as we've seen with Ramsey Yousef in the World Trade Center bombing and also with Mir Aimal Kasi, who was responsible for shooting a number of Americans outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

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