The following is a must read:
The movie “Munich” was about a gentleman named Juval Aviv. Juval was a body guard to the former Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir. She personally appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and then killed them during the Munich Olympic Games. His bio is at the bottom of this MUST READ info.
In a lecture in NYC a few weeks ago Juval shared some information that EVERY American needs to know but which our government has refused to share. The following is some of the information Mr. Aviv has shared with the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress:
First, let me tell you that Mr. Aviv had, on the Bill O’Reilly show on the Fox News Channel, predicted the London subway bombing, stating publicly that it would happen within a week of the time of his appearance on the show. O’Reilly laughed and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show and unfortunately, within the week, the terrorist attack occurred.
Juval gave intelligence (information he gathered in Israel and the Middle East) to the Bush administration about 9/11 a month before it occurred. His report specifically stated that the terrorists would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. The administration ridiculed him and refused to respond. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant – but still the Administration will not listen to him.
He did not agree with going into Iraq _ saying that it didn’t make sense if we wanted terrorists who were responsible for 9/11. He also believes in Golda Meir’s approach which was to bring justice to the terrorists but do not take down civilians – as killing civilians only creates more terrorists. Similar to Bush, Israel’s subsequent leaders have proved to be not as insightful as Golda Meir. When we did decide to invade Iraq, we should have learned from Israel’s past mistakes.
Mr. Aviv very articulately stated that Israel’s greatest mistake against their war on terror was to invade the West Bank and Gaza and then stay there. He said they should have done the proven anti-terrorist strategy which was to “HIT AND LEAVE” instead of “HIT AND STAY”. Now we are stuck in Iraq and it is worse than Vietnam. Iraq is the U.S.’s West Bank/Gaza. Aviv doesn’t think we will ever be able to truly leave because even when we are able to pull our troops back we will still have to go back regularly which will keep us quagmired. We should have hit hard and left immediately.
Now for the scary stuff. . . Mr. Aviv predicts the next attack on the U.S. is coming within the next few months. Forget hijacking airplanes because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as the people on the plane will not go down quietly. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke. We are being reactionary instead of looking at strategies that are effective. According to Aviv, our technology is outdated; they look for metal while the new explosives are made of plastic.
When some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire, we now have to remove our shoes at the airport. A group of idiots tried to bring liquid explosives aboard, now we can’t bring liquids on board. Mr. Aviv says that he is waiting for the day that some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosives on their underwear and light up in a plane or in the terminal and then we will all have to travel naked. We only focus our attention on security when people are heading to the gates, but if terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times and on the front end when 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 can even get involved. In Israel, bags are checked before people can even enter the airport.
Now back to his predictions: He says the next attack will come in a few months and will involve both suicide and non-suicide bombers in places that people congregate: Disneyland, Las Vegas. Big cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc. . . . and there will be shopping malls, subways during rush hours, train stations, and casinos, as well as rural America, perhaps Wyoming or Montana. The attacks will be simultaneous detonations around the country (they like big impact, 5 – 8 cities including rural areas. They won’t really need to use suicide bombers because at largely populated places like the MGM Grand in Vegas, they can simply valet park. Aviv says that this is well known in intelligence circles, but our government says they do not want to alarm Americans. He also says that the U.S. WILL attack Iran and Syria before Bush leaves office.
In addition, since we don’t have enough troops, the U.S. will likely use small strategic nuclear weapons regardless that the headlines the next day will read: “U.S. Nukes Islamic World” and the world will be a different place to such an extent that global warming will be irrelevant. Aviv travels regularly to the Middle East and he knows his stuff.
On a good note, he says we don’t have to worry about being nuked. He says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons, they like suicide as their frontline approach. Aviv also says that the next level of terrorists will not becoming from abroad, but will be homegrown, having attended our schools and universities, but will have traveled frequently back and forth to the Middle East. They will know and understand Americans but we won’t understand them. We still only have a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks and we need to change that.
From an intelligence perspective, he says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence but follow Israel, Ireland and England’s example of human intelligence both from an infiltration perspective as well as trust civilians to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens but our government treats us like babies and thinks we can’t handle it and will panic.
Mr. Aviv conducted a test for Congress recently by putting empty briefcases in 5 major spots in 5 U.S. cities and not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago, someone tried to steal it! In Israel an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds with a citizen shouting “UNATTENDED BAG” and the area cleared slowly, calmly and immediately by the people themselves. Unfortunately, we haven’t hurt enough yet for us to be that concerned.
Aviv said that our government’s plan after the next attack is to immediately cut-off EVERYONE’S ability to use their telephone, cell phone, or blackberry because they don’t want terrorists to be able to talk to one another (and it would make a great means for the government to completely control us, the citizens, cutting off our ability to communicate with one another to thwart any government tyranny against the American citizens), do you have a plan if you cannot communicate directly with those that you love?
Bio of Juval Aviv:
Juval holds an MA in Business from Tel Aviv University and is President and CEO Interfor, Inc. based in New York with offices around the world, founded in 1979. Interfor provides foreign and domestic intelligence services to the legal, corporate and financial communities and conducts investigations around the globe. In addition, Aviv serves as a special consultant to the U.S. Congress and other policy makers on issues of terrorism, fraud and money laundering.
He is a leading authority on terrorist networks, and served as lead investigator for Pan Am Airways into the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie terrorist bombing. He was featured in a recent film “Munich”, as the leader of the Israeli team that tracked down the terrorists who kidnapped the Israeli Olympic team.
Before founding Interfor, Mr. Aviv served as an officer in the Israeli Defense Force leading an elite Commando/Intelligence Unit, and was later selected by the Israeli Secret Service (Mossad) to participate in a number of intelligence and special operations in many countries in the late 1960’s and 1970’s.
Most recently, Mr. Aviv wrote the book: “Staying Safe: The Complete Guide To Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Business”.
“Abouna” Gregori
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