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International Training Initiatives We are increasing training opportunities for our foreign partners at the FBI National Academy and at the International Law Enforcement Academies (/LEAs) in Hungary and Thailand. Since September 11, 2001, the Bureau has trained over 20,000 international law enforcement students on topics ranging from management principles to law enforcement communications to forensic science. In addition, we have several new initiatives: * At the request of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, FBI, DHS, State Department, and other DOJ personnel traveled to Baghdad, met with law enforcement and Coalition Provisional Authority officials, assessed their needs, and developed a comprehensive training plan. The plan includes training in counterterrorism and post-blast investigations, major case management, fingerprinting, organized crime investigations, and the development of an internal affairs apparatus. The plan is awaiting approval by the Coalition Provisional Authority The Middle Eastern Law Enforcement Training Center (MELETC), located at the Dubai National Police Training Academy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is a bilateral partnership between the Government of the Ermrate of Dubai and the FBI. Through the MELETC, the FBI provides training and assistance in counterterrorism and other disciplines to officers from the Dubai National Police and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. To date, over 400 police officials from the GCC have received training at MELETC. in a new program funded by the State Department, experts from our Terrorist Financing Operations Section and the Internal Revenue Service offer a course on terrorist financing and money laundering for foreign law enforcement officers and banking regulators. The course has been offered to officials from 10 countries since February 2003, anc training is planned for eight additional countries. in 2004. The Cyber Division conducted 12 specialized courses outside the U.S. (involving almost 500 students) this past year to raise the expertise and analytical abilities of foreign personnel involved in investigating computer intrusians and cyber crime matters The FBI-supported forensic training laboratory in the ILEA in Budapest opened in January 2004. The FBI provided laboratory equipment for this new training center, and FBI Laboratory experts serve as instructors. The center will help raise the overall level of forensic expertise in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia as students return to. their home countries to combat crime and terrorism, The FBI's Training and Development Division is spearheading “Leadership in the Counterterrorism Environment,” an international training initiative for certain North American and United Kingdom law enforcement agencies. The program is focused on developing and refining strategic leadership skills for intelligence and counterterrorism missions. Training is tentatively scheduled for sites in Scotland and Northern Ireland this summer, and at the FBI Academy this fall. The relationships fostered by these training initiattves have borne fruit in improved operational coordination. In the aftermath of the May 2003 bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that killed nine Americans, we received unprecedented cooperation from Saudi officials. One reason was the fact that the FBI National Academy had recently trained more than 100 Saudi police in the science of evidence collection. As a result, our forensic technicians and their Saudi MISC boc. #5 48 000000387