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develop thai operation - an effort that will require p econ continued atter by FBI leadership, and constant training of FBI personne! ws intelligence processes and objectives. é While the FEI has cleatly made substantial progress over the past 2 1/2 years, 1 18 difficult to measure with precision the current effectiveneas ofits CT efforts Besides cating the absence of aiccessful attacks on the homeland since September LL, 2001, there is no single measure thal compictely captures the progress made. There are several yardsticks, however that demonstrate the effect riveriess of the core functions ofa CT Program. These yardsticks mclude, and show progress 18, the followin. areas: . Development. of human assets 2. Number of FisAs 3, Quality of daily briefings 4. Effectiveness of CT operations 5. Continued protection of civil berties z Success Stories OF course, the most wuportant aspect of all of these changes and Tear SaMZahons 1s the ear ee to which they have aided the FBI in disrupting and destroying terrorist threats. Following area few of the PRI's success stores. The © : Lackawanna Sux Oa September 13, 2002, the FBI arrested five United States ciizens near Buffalo, New York (Sahim Alwar, Faysal Gaiab, Yahya Goba, Shafal Mosed, and Yasem Taher), charging them with “providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to provide material support and resources to a desig enated foreign terrorist organization.” In adchtion, Mukhtar Albain, also a United States ciluzen, was rendered from Bahrain to the United States pursmant te an arrest warrant on the game charges All six individuals were indicted on these charges on October 2], 9002 The arrests and indictments were based on information indicating that these individuals traveled to an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanustan in the springs summer of 2001, where they reserved msitary taming and were visited by Usama Bin Laden, All six subjects pled guilty to terrorst-related charges and received prison aentences ranging between seven and ten years. These subjects are also cooperahng with ongoing terrorist ivestigations and have provided sign ficart Benevolence International Foundation Engamn Armout was the Executive Director of the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF} BIF was a Chicags, Hlmois-based charity long recognized by il MISC. REG. #53 HOOOC4ETE