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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

FBI training documents on counter-terrorism in poor taste removed

The FBI has removed hundreds of counterterrorism training documents after a months-long review found inaccuracies and other problems in their description of Muslims.

The review was triggered after a September blog in Wired magazine revealed training documents that reportedly called the Prophet Muhammad a "cult leader," claimed "devout" Muslims have been generally violent for hundreds of years and made other controversial statements.

The Wired article also detailed a presentation that included a graph that tracked followers of the Bible, Torah and Koran over hundreds of years which showed "devout" followers of the Torah and the Bible becoming less violent over time, while "devout" followers of the Koran (sic) remaining as violent in 2010 as they were hundreds of years ago.



The FBI did not get into details about which documents were taken out, but a law enforcement source confirmed on Tuesday that hundreds were removed because they were deemed "not consistent with the highest professional standards and the FBI's core values."

The pages which were removed fell into at least one of four categories -- "poor taste," using Arab or Muslim "stereotypes," information missing "precision," and "factual errors."

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