Think, Twice, Before You Go Tear-assing Off Toward The Sound Of The Gunfire. Terrorist Target And Ambuch Police Officers!

At 2300 he leisurely crossed 100 yards of open field separating his village from my neighborhood. He lingered, as if waiting for the bus, by our bus stop. After a half-dozen of my neighbors gathered waiting for that bus, he produced an M16 from under his coat and shot them all in a single burst of full-auto fire. Changing an empty 30-round magazine for a full one, he started walking down the street shooting folks sitting on benches and looking out their apartment windows. Suddenly he sat down on the curb and waited for the police van he knew would be racing up from the station 500 yards further down the street. When the van was 20 yards away he stood and fired 17 more rounds into the three cops in the front seat. We lost officer Galit Arviv that night five years ago. The other two officers have never fully recover from their wounds.

Terrorists who eventually confront you will be well armed. Small arms and ammunition are plentiful and relatively inexpensive just about everywhere in the US. Obtaining them legally or otherwise is simply a matter of finances and the coffers of terrorist groups based in America are overflowing. Donations to all manner of terrorist fronts groups continue unabated. The crackdown on overseas transfer of funds means those millions in contributions now get distributed domestically.

There’s no lack of venues where terrorists can train with firearms, perfect their marksmanship, practice tactics and convert semi-auto rifles to full-auto. Terrorists won’t be constrained by BATF regulations.

Expect Ambushes

Confrontations will take place at the least likely times in the least likely places. Terrorists will attack in pairs and trios and employ camouflage and deceit.
In the simplest form of attack, from a “safe” location, the terrorist fires off a 30 round burst at a distant target. Bullets rain down on everyone and everything in range.

Terrorists don’t need a great deal of concealment. A shallow ditch along a major highway provided one terrorist a hiding place from which he was able to simply stand and strafe passing vehicles with full-auto fire. He did it twice, from the same place, once during morning rush hour and a week later during the afternoon rush home.

At major traffic intersections a terrorist hid in the decorative bushes. When vehicles and pedestrians clogged the intersection he rose to one knee and sprayed them with bullets. After dark terrorists took-up positions out in the open, concealed in the shadows on hillsides, anywhere between 15 and 30 yards removed from roads and highways. They strafed passing vehicles.

Using selective fire, usually from 7.62x51 rifles, terrorists fire from hillside positions at moving vehicles 150 or more yards away. It’s on-the-job practice at leading and hitting moving targets. Fortunately their marksmanship generally sucks.

Terrorists also employ roadblocks to ambush vehicles. They’ll use whatever is at hand as a barrier, including the ?trite tactic of felling a tree across the road. Sometimes they’ll use their own vehicles. The targeted vehicle screeches to a halt, its driver instinctively hits the brakes. Before the driver can shift into reverse and peel-out — that’s if the driver even senses a threat — the terrorists move in from behind. Everyone inside is murdered in a hail of bullets.

Hiding in vehicles appearing disabled and abandoned, parked off to the side of the road, terrorists strafe vehicles as they pass. Alternatively, from moving vehicles, terrorists strafe vehicles they catch-up with. They’re also fond of carrying out drive-by shootings of pedestrians, storefronts and stationary vehicles.

Methods

What’s characteristic of all these attacks is the terrorists carrying-out the attacks contemplate and plan escape routes. They select the site of attack based on its immediate access to an escape route. Shootings carried out by terrorists on foot usually take place immediately adjacent to a terrorist friendly neighborhood. Before police can respond to the scene, he’s changed his shirt, ditched the gun and is walking down the street like any other person out for a stroll.

Attacks using vehicles will occur at locations near intersections offering a choice escape routes. Each route will provide quick access to friendly areas where they can hide their vehicle from police helicopters and walk to a safe house.

There’s another category of attacks — sniping. These terrorists will be highly proficient, first-class marksmen. They’ll possess top-of-the-line rifles, specifically made and tuned for long-range accuracy with ammunition matched to the rifle and possibly custom hand-loads. They’ll target victims using high power binoculars and scopes during daylight hours and night vision optics after dark. Snipers will fire from all manner of concealed positions. Mothers and children are most sought-after targets; firing at them at night through illuminated windows in their home.

Expect the terrorist sniper to have absorbed every bit of knowledge possible from books about sniping. If there’s a situation where “it takes one to catch one,” this is it. Bring in your sniping professional ASAP.

Die In Place

Last and most deadly of attacks using firearms are those where the terrorists never contemplate or plan escape because they don’t need one.

A terrorist dressed in casual clothes ?— jeans, sneakers and a T-shirt was dropped-off by his handlers at a major traffic intersection. He stood on the curb by the crosswalk carrying a large green garbage bag. A red light caused a passenger packed bus to stop directly in front of the terrorist. He stepped into the street, stood in the traffic lane next to the bus and removed an M16 from the bag and started methodically firing into the bus, from one end of the bus to the other and back again. Then instead of making the 20-yard dash to an escape route, he remained standing in the middle of the street and swapped his empty magazine for a full one. Before he could hit his bolt release, he was shot dead.

In another incident the terrorist was dropped-off by his handlers and as he had repeatedly practiced on the very same streets, he leisurely strolled down the two blocks to Jerusalem’s Main Street in the heart of downtown. He waited patiently until there was no vehicular traffic blocking fields of fire up and down Main. As if J-walking, he began to cross, but stopped half way across, uncovered the AK secured on his back under a windbreaker.

He fires at folks in the street, changes magazines and fires at shoppers in nearby stores; changes magazines again and exchanges fire with two armed civilians. It’s now well over 90 seconds since he fired his first shot, but he doesn’t attempt to escape. He simply moves out of the middle of the street and positions himself in front of a storefront. Before he completes his fourth magazine change he’s shot dead by Border Police.

The area is cleared and the Bomb Squad robot is brought in to check the body for concealed explosive devices. When it’s clear from the circumstances of the shooting attack the terrorists could have no reasonable expectation of escaping or show no desire to escape, consider them to be wearing an explosive garment.