And then if you have the best paper the CIA comes in and hauls you off to gitmo for planning an attack on the U.S.
New York Post- by DOUG AUER and KEVIN SHEEHAN
It’s Terrorism 101.
A New York University class on transnational terrorism is requiring students to “hypothetically plan a terrorist attack” — and shocked cops say the outrageous lesson plan is an insult to the officers killed on Sept. 11.
The controversial course, taught by former Navy criminal investigator Marie-Helen Maras, asks the pupils to “step into [a terrorist’s] shoes” and write a 10- to 15-page paper on their battle plan.
“Some of the most notorious terrorists, including Anwar al-Awlaki, got their start on American campuses. It looks like after the CIA killed al-Awlaki, NYU is helping to produce successors,” said an outraged law-enforcement expert on terrorism.
Awlaki was the al Qaeda propagandist who studied at Colorado State University and later mentored three 9/11 hijackers, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan and “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab.
He was blasted to hell in Yemen last year in a CIA drone strike.
For the assignment, Maras — who has a Ph.D. from Oxford and is also an associate professor at SUNY Farmingdale — instructs her pupils to consider all aspects of the attack.
“In your paper, you must describe your hypothetical attack and what will happen in the aftermath of the attack,” Maras wrote in the syllabus obtained by The Post.
They must factor in the methods of execution, sources of funding, number of operatives needed and the target government’s reaction, according to the paper’s outline.
At the same time, students must realistically stay within their chosen terror group’s “goals, capabilities, tactical profile, targeting pattern and operational area,” the syllabus states.
Given the detail required — and possibly concerned that the how-to terror manuals could land in the wrong hands — Maras warns that each page of a student’s paper must bear the disclaimer: “This is a hypothetical scenario for a university course on transnational terrorism.”
When told of the term paper, one ranking police officer who lost coworkers on 9/11 called it “the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.”
The NYPD lost 23 cops on that dark day, and the Port Authority saw 37 cops vanish in the rubble.
“I’m disgusted,” said the source. “What is this, we have our students do the work for the terrorists?”
Another source worried that the assignment could become a primer in plotting attacks rather than counter-terrorism.
“This flies in the face of the 11 years of hard work the NYPD has done in tracking down terrorists to the far reaches of the globe to make sure they never strike again,” said the source.
Other terrorists who studied in the US include 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad and most recently Quazi Ahsan Nafis, the Bangladeshi student accused of plotting to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The professor defended the course assignment.
“The exercise is meant to prepare students for the field, to prepare them for careers in intelligence, policing, counterterrorism. This is a grad-level assignment for a grad-level course,” Maras told The Post.
“Why didn’t the police call me if they have concerns? I have NYPD officers in my class,” she said.
The students are also supposed to imagine the counter-terrorism measures implemented in the attack’s aftermath, she added.
The class is being offered by NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs.
The NYPD declined to comment.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nyu_homework_plot_terror_attack_71g6BRG0GVqJfBCgVHXWIL
“The Transnational Terrorism course is taught by a decorated US Navy veteran who uses her military experience to teach students — including law enforcement officers — how to anticipate and counter terrorism. The assignment she gave her students is an exercise that has been utilized by many U.S. universities and government agencies. We think it is deeply regrettable that this veteran’s work as an NYU professor has been mis-characterized in this way.”
New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies
Office of Public Relations
OMG…. They actually have a class in Terrorism at NYU. NYC needs to get out of their “Terrorist” funk. 9/11 was 11 years ago. Get over it. No one cares anymore. Plus it was all done by our government. No one cares about Pearl Harbor or remembers it and they still enjoy Hawaii for vacation and don’t need to take “Kamikaze” classes every day to promote and create more propaganda for the people to go against the Japanese. Maybe it’s because we are friends with the Japanese now. Since Obama and Romney are friends with the terrorist, how come we still need to create more propaganda against the terrorists? Only when it suits the Zionist Jews, that we have to be forced fed this ridiculous propaganda.
“…attack” — and shocked cops say the outrageous lesson plan is an insult to the officers killed on Sept. 11.
If they’re so shocked, why don’t they arrest the perpetrators.
That would be Bush, Cheney, Silverstein and a few others, especially Mossad, to be precise.
“Awlaki was the al Qaeda propagandist who studied at Colorado State University and later mentored three 9/11 hijackers, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan and “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab.”
That would be CIAl-Qaeda, presumably.
““This flies in the face of the 11 years of hard work the NYPD has done in tracking down terrorists to the far reaches of the globe to make sure they never strike again,” said the source.”
Look no further than your own backyard, you morons. If you haven’t figured it out by now, you need to look for a new career.
Like say, mall security cops.
Idiots.
Red Cell 101. You must put yourself in your enemy’s shoes in order to counter the enemy. We need more classes like this, not less. In the military we call this Red Cell.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,
you will succumb in every battle”.
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War.