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NYPD's New 'Scholar In Residence' Will Function As Terrorism Guru

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Crime & Justice News

"He was a flight surgeon with the Navy and a CIA officer

in Pakistan. He has also earned a doctorate in

sociology and written two books. Now Marc Sageman

can add a new entry to his resume: terrorism guru for

the New York Police Department. Sageman, the

NYPD's first  'scholar in residence,' has become a key

player in a debate over whether the greatest terror

threat America faces comes from inside or outside its

borders. His assignment: to teach terrorism

workshops to investigators and be a sounding board

for a team of NYPD analysts that assesses threats

against the city.

Sageman's residency at the nation's largest police

department began in May and will last a year, with a

private foundation paying his $180,000 salary.

Sagemen caught the attention of the NYPD's deputy

commissioner of intelligence, David Cohen, also a

CIA alum, and other NYPD brass when he participated

in an in-house lecture series on terrorism and foreign

relations that has featured Henry Kissinger, Jordan's

King Abdullah II, retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey and

Lawrence Wright, author of  'The Looming Tower: Al-

Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.' The department

decided to ask Sageman to stick around."

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Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).