A friend sent me an e-mail about how to understand the state of the war on terror in this country, what to expect and how to position oneself in case the situation deteriorates.\u00a0 I have no way to verify the substance of the information about “Juval Aviv” other than to say that the “liberal” bloggers seem to dislike him intensely and that others, who apparently believe at least some of what he says, continually seek him out as a speaker.\u00a0 Take it for what it is worth … I found these suggestions that are attributed to him timely and interesting.<\/p>\n
Lee<\/p>\n
Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie\u00a0‘Munich’ was based. He was Golda Meir’s bodyguard, and\u00a0she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
In a lecture in\u00a0New York City\u00a0he shared information that\u00a0EVERY\u00a0American needs to know — but that our government has not yet shared with us.<\/p>\n
He predicted the\u00a0London\u00a0subway bombing on the Bill O’Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O’Reilly laughed, and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.<\/p>\n
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in\u00a0Israel\u00a0and the\u00a0Middle East) to the Bush Administration about 9\/11, a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.<\/p>\n
Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the\u00a0U.S. will occur\u00a0within the next few months.<\/p>\n
Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke — that we have been\u00a0reactionary\u00a0rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.<\/p>\n
For example:<\/p>\n
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.<\/p>\n
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can’t bring liquids on board. He says he’s waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked!<\/p>\n
Every strategy\u00a0we\u00a0have\u00a0is\u00a0reactionary.<\/p>\n
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.<\/p>\n
Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the\u00a0front end of the airport when\/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In\u00a0Israel, security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.<\/p>\n
Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in\u00a0America\u00a0is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America this time. The hinterlands\u00a0(Wyoming, Montana, etc.).<\/p>\n
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.<\/p>\n
Aviv says terrorists won’t need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in\u00a0Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.<\/p>\n
Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our\u00a0U. S.\u00a0Government does not want to ‘alarm American citizens’ with the facts. The world is quickly going to become ‘a different place’, and issues like ‘global warming’ and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.<\/p>\n
On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don’t have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy\u00a0America\u00a0will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It’s cheap, it’s easy, it’s effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to ‘meet their destiny’.<\/p>\n
He also says the next level of terrorists, over which\u00a0America\u00a0should be most concerned,\u00a0will not be coming from abroad. \u00a0But will be, instead, ‘homegrown’, having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for\u00a0‘students’ who frequently travel back and forth to the\u00a0Middle East. These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won’t know\/understand a thing about them.<\/p>\n
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist\u00a0threats we\u00a0will inevitably face.\u00a0 America\u00a0still has only\u00a0a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.<\/p>\n
So, what can\u00a0America\u00a0do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow\u00a0Israel’s,\u00a0Ireland’s and\u00a0England’s hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust ‘aware’ citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, ‘like babies’. Our government thinks we ‘can’t handle the truth’ and are concerned that we’ll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.<\/p>\n
Aviv recently created\/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in\u00a0Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase!<\/p>\n
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of\u00a0Israel\u00a0are so well\u00a0‘trained’ that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout,\u00a0‘Unattended Bag!’ The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately,\u00a0America\u00a0hasn\u2019t been yet ‘hurt enough’ by terrorism for their government\u00a0to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it’s their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.<\/p>\n
Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9\/11, who were ‘lost’ without parents being able to pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In\u00a0New York City, this was days, in some cases!)<\/p>\n
He stresses the importance of having a plan, that’s agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their children’s schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions, just as they do in\u00a0Israel.<\/p>\n
Does your family know what to do if you can’t contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.<\/p>\n
Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event of another terrorist<\/p>\n
attack,\u00a0EVERYONE’s ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will immediately be\u00a0cut-off, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.<\/p>\n
How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak to each other? You need to have a plan.<\/p>\n
If you understand, and believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whomever. Don’t stop there. In addition to sharing this via e-mail, contact and discuss this information with whomever it makes sense to. Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better\u00a0that you have\u00a0plans in place, and never have to use them, then\u00a0to have\u00a0no plans in place, and find you needed them.<\/p>\n
If you choose not to share this, or not to\u00a0have a plan in place, and nothing ever occurs —\u00a0good for you!\u00a0However, in the\u00a0event\u00a0something does happen,\u00a0and even more so, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this e-mail will haunt you forever.<\/p>\n
Telling yourself after the fact, “I should have sent this to so and so, but deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones,\u00a0plus, I just didn’t believe it”,\u00a0will\u00a0not change anything. You were alerted, had the chance to do something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you\u00a0chose to disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable\u00a0warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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