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Counterterrorism Center Has Only ‘Eight or Nine’ Middle East Analysts
Submitted by Christopher Lempa on Wed, 2010-01-06 04:00
"While [the National Counter Terrorism Center]. . .has taken much criticism in the media over the past two weeks for failing to flag Abdulmutallab as a threat, NCTC has so far evaded criticism over a structural problem it still faces five years after its creation: of the 300 analysts working at the center, fewer than a dozen focus full-time on the Middle East."
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