Fred Burton
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Fred Burton, is Stratfor's Vice President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security, and is "one of the world's foremost experts on security, terrorists and terrorist organizations".
Burton is a U.S. counterterrorism special agent for the State Department, and was involved in the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
Burton was also appointed by Washington to assist in the investigation of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He is the former deputy chief of the counterterrorism division of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Mr. Burton also investigated the killing of Rabbi Meir Kahane; the al Qaeda New York City bombing plots before 9/11; and the Libyan-backed terrorist attacks against diplomats in Sanaa and Khartoum.
Burton is the author of a memoir, Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent published by Random House in June 2008.
Burton has most recently been appointed to the Texas Border Security Council on September 11, 2007 by Governor Rick Perry. [1]
