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Discussion Boards on Terrorism
A Military Assessement of the Al Qaeda Training Tapes
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Conclusions and Recommendations
There is information to the effect that the "perfect day" as seen by Al Qaeda would combine attacks designed to produce the maximum number of casualties with attacks that would give them the opportunity to get "face time" on the news channels to deliver their rhetoric. For maximum effect these attacks would take place nearly simultaneously at multiple geographically separate locations.
We need to address, in training and in personal preparation, the differences between a typical criminal victimization and a terrorist incident in terms of early recognition and appropriate response. I.E. The typical bank robbery vs. finding yourself in the middle of a terrorist attack on a "financial institution" (as per the recent FBI warning.)
If you find yourself in the middle of one of these attacks, there will not be time for the SWAT team to intervene on your behalf. Compliance will buy you only a very little time. If you are identified as a potential problem to the terrorists you will be shot! (They are training to spot Law Enforcement, Military, Security, and Corrections Officers as well as armed citizens.) If, by feigned compliance, you make it through the first cut you can expect to be physically restrained and then controlled with threats to the rest of your group and to the other groups. "We will blow up the women and children in the next room if any of you do not do exactly as we say!“ Based on the tape your ultimate fate, if you do not resist, is to be ritually executed in front of the television cameras.
The best time to act is most likely to be at the initiation of the attack. Once the terrorists are consolidated on the objective it will be very difficult to take effective action. You must plan on providing effective resistance at the first opportunity! Shoot, move and communicate. Seek cover, use your weapon as required. Attempt to acquire a better weapons system at the first opportunity (do you know how to place an AK into operation?)
Keep in mind that before any terrorist action there are many opportunities to interrupt their cycle by detecting their pre-mission activities. This is where we all can be of assistance. Pay attention to what is going on around you as you go about your daily business. Investigate and report any unusual or suspicious activity that you observe (note vehicle make and model, license plates, personnel descriptions, etc.)
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Discussion Boards on Terrorism
| From: Le Zookeeper | 11/6/2009 1:33:43 PM |
| Subject: LET still at it repeat of 26/11 or Danish newspaper was on the board |
| NEW DELHI: As the details of a fresh Lashkar plot to target India emerge, it appears that a conflict of priorities may have come in the way of its
plan to launch another Mumbai-style attack.
Documents submitted by the FBI to the Illinois district court against two US-based LeT terrorists — David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana — suggest that the duo diverged from the Lashkar leadership on attacking India. While the Lashkar leader, introduced by FBI to the US court as LeT Member A, wanted them to focus on India, both Headley and Rana were fixated on attacking the Danish newspaper whose decision to print cartoons of Prophet Moha-mmad in 2005 angered Muslims worldwide.
The FBI dossier suggests HuJI commander Ilyas Kashmiri was in agreement with US-based Lashkar terrorists. It also appears LeT went along with the plan initially before deciding to put India — their pet hate — on top of their “to do” list. The switch of priorities surprised Headley, originally Daood Gilani, and Rana but did not distract them from their Danish project.
The divergence came to the fore when Lashkar commander — LeT Member A in the US court’s records — insisted that the mission in India needed to be accomplished first. FBI special agent Lorenzo Benedict told the Illinois court, “In July and August 2009, Headley exchanged a series of emails with LeT Member A including an exchange in which Headley asked if the Denmark project was on hold, and whether a visit to India that LeT Member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack. These emails reflect that LeT Member A was placing a higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack on India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark.”
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