Number	18324
Subject	Terrorism
Source	New Yorker
State	NY
Year	2001
Publication Date	May 14
Summary	The New Yorker profiles former F.B.I. director Louis Freeh and document his struggle to solve his last case, the terrorist bombing of an army base in Saudi Arabia. Freeh's career was studded with conflicts over keeping the F.B.I. and the White House as far apart as possible. Still, the bombing case haunted him and he worked for years to get the Saudis to cooperate, to get the administration to pursue indictments even if it complicated politics with Saudi Arabia and Iran. Freeh saw himself as a policeman, politics being completely secondary to justice. For an F.B.I. director this approach did not always work.
Category	General
Pages	10
Keywords	Saudi Arabia;Khobar bombing;Hezbollah;Iranian Revolutionary Guard;Osama Bin Laden;President Clinton;Federal Bureau of Investigation;Iran;Middle East;terrorism
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