Global Terrorism

Behind the Scenes of Combating Terrorism

Pre-9/11

Wallace S. Bruschweiler, Sr.

People’s Friendship University

Lumumba, Moscow USSR

Where it all began…

Hyperion’s ramifications

Iraq & Iran links

How could “terrorism” be best defined?

“…Barbarism that Threatens the Very Foundations of Civilized Life…”

George P. Shultz

Former U.S. Secretary of State

“Saints, Soldiers, Pirates, Guerrillas and Assassins, all gave up their lives for their causes, but they did so as the LAST Resort.

Modern Terrorists often use their Willingness to Die as their FIRST Resort.”

Varindra Tarzie Vittachi

Newsweek

Graffiti in France

Main European Terrorist Logos

We Should All Remember

Terrorism Flourishes usually in

Geo-Political Areas Where a Certain Power Vacuum exists

Terrorism Occasionally Breeds Strange “Bed-Fellows”: • Drugs, Arms, Prostitution & Organized Crime

Terrorism has no National/Continental Boundary Restraints

License Plates: U.S. Forces - Germany

License Plates: U.S. Forces - Italy

Operation: Vedettes de Cherbourg Night of December 24, 1969

Israel signs a contract for 12 speedboats missile launchers

5 were delivered to Israel before Gen. de Gaule imposed a weapon embargo

Israel “creates” a Norwegian company: Starboat and Oil Drilling Company (SODC)

SODC asks France and Israel if they can obtain remaining speedboats without weaponry, in order to perform oil drilling research in the North Sea

France and Israel accept. Israel went as far as supplying the necessary crews

Dec. 24 – the speedboats leave Cherbourg Jan. 1st 1970 – speedboats arrive in Haifa, Israel

Operation “Rooster-53” Raas-Arab Beach – December 26-27, 1969

Sikorsky Ch-53 Yasur

P-12 Soviet Radar Station

Estimated at 7 tons

Raid used captured Soviet tanks and personnel carriers captured during 1967 (The Six Day War)

Black September June 1971 Jordan

•Attempt to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan

•Order was given to the Arab Legion to expel all Palestinians to Lebanon & Syria

•15,000 Palestinians were killed in the process, i.e. Hussein killed more Palestinians than Israel in all its wars with the Arabs

•Some Palestinian decided to surrender to IDF to save their lives

•Palestinian fighters who decided to go to Lebanon had to pay $100 for safe passage to certain warlords

Oberdan Sallustro March 21, 1972 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Director General of FIAT Concord

Kidnapped by Ejercito Revolucionario del Rueblo (ERP)

Killed on April 10, 1972

Was the start of “Crisis Management Team” approach world-wide

• Motorola became a forerunner

Munich Massacre

September 5-6, 1972

Munich Olympic Games 1972

Israeli Athletes Killed

H.E. Hilarion Capucci “The Muslim Arafat”

1974 – Smuggled weapons for PLO from Lebanon to Israel

Arrested, jailed, released under pressure of Pope Paul VI

Capucci’s brother-in-arms Anglican priest, Elias Khoury, drove 2 terrorists to plant bombs in Jerusalem

Operation: Entebbe

July 3-4, 1976

Entebbe: IAF Planes Used

Entebbe: “Idi Amin’s Car”

Operation “Thunderbolt”

AF Flight 139 Operation Yonatan

Hanns-Martin Schleyer

Kidnapping: September 5, 1977

Lufthansa Flight 181

Mogadishu

October 13-17, 1977

Baader, Ensslin & Raspe (RAF) upon hearing successful outcome committed suicide at Stammheim Prison

Description of

“Things to Come”

February 1978

Aldo Moro

Kidnapping March 16, 1978

Bundeskriminalamt BKA / TE - PIOS

P ersonen People

Informationen Information

Objekte Object, Target

Sachen Things (general)

Ayatollah Khomeini Return to Teheran, Iran : February 2, 1979

Air France flight from Paris

After more than 15 years in exile

Operation Sphinx La Seyne-sur-Mer, Toulon, France

April 6, 1979 3 am

• 2 Reactor cores, awaiting shipment to Iraq

• Mossad smuggled 7 operatives who placed 5 explosive charges on the cores and detonated them

• Damaging both cores and setting back Iraq’s program

Gen. Alexander Haig Mons, Belgium Attack: June 25, 1979

• Landmine blew up under bridge on which Haig’s motorcade was traveling

• Missing Haig’s car, but wounding 3 of his body guards

• Attack was carried out by RAF (Red Army Faction)

Tehran – U.S. Embassy

Hostage Taking: November 4, 1979

Tehran – U.S. Embassy

Hostage Taking: November 4, 1979 Is it a Coincidence? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Today ?

Ortona: Strella Missiles

November 7, 1979

Italian-Palestinian Connection

Libyan Arms to IRA

1980s

• 9mm Browning, Taurus, Glock and Beretta handguns, •AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifles, •MP5 SMGs, •Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs), •Soviet made DShK HMGs, •American made M60 machine guns, •U.S. Military Flamethrowers, •Semtex plastic explosive and, •SA-7 & Stinger shoulderheld SAMs.

Intercepted by joint-operation

(French Services & MI5 and MI6)

Other 3 or 4 similar shipments were “successfully delivered”

Anwar Sadat - Assassination

Cairo: October 6, 1981

Moshe Dayan & Anwar Sadat

Abd al-Rahman

Muslim Brotherhood

1993 World Trade Center Bombing

1996 Sentenced to life in

prison

General James L. Dozier

Kidnapping: December 17, 1981 NATO HQ – Verona, Italy

Gen. Carlo Alberto della Chiesa

Head of Italian Anti-Terrorism

Assassinated

September 3, 1982

Palermo, Sicily

Beirut – U.S. Marines Barracks

Attack: October 23, 1983

241 Americans Killed

Nabib Berri

Ayatollah Fadlallah

Hostage Jean-Paul Kaufmann

Taken: May 22, 1985 (Beirut)

Released: May 4, 1988 (Beirut)

After “successful negotiations” (ransom paid)

Jean-Charles Marchiani Charles Pasqua

ex – DGSE Charge de Mission Interior Minister

“Oil-for-Food Scandal”

TWA Flight 847 Athens-Rome

Hijacking: June 14, 1985

Nabil Berri - Amal

U.S. Navy Diver

Killed

Robert Stethem

ALPHA Group

aka “Spetsgrouppa A” September 20, 1985 Beirut, Lebanon

Ayatollah Fadlallah

4 USSR diplomats taken hostage

10/2/85: Arkadi Katlov killed

ALPHA members arrive & identify hostage takers: Hezbollah.

Decide to use local gangs promising US$1 million for the safe return

Local group decides to take family members of Fadlallah & severe body parts

Since then no USSR personnel taken hostage

Operation Wooden Leg

October 1, 1985 Hammamamet, Tunisia

9/25/1985- 3 Israeli civilians killed on yacht in Larnaca, Cyprus

Force 17 claimed the killings

Israel cabinet ordered immediate retaliation

One Force 17 killer was a U.K. citizen (Ian Davidson)

Strike by IAF carried out by 10 F-15 Eagles on 10/1/1985 at 7 a.m. – was longest mission ever

Since target was 1280 miles away planes were required to be refueled by Boeing 707 in mid-flight

IAF planes dropped precision-guided bombs

16 PLO members killed including some Force 17

Achille Lauro “Incident”

October 7, 1985

Leon Klinghoffer’s Execution

On Board Achille Lauro

October 9-10, 1985

Sigonella “Incident”

October 12, 1985

Pan Am Flight 103

Lockerbie: December 21, 1988

Ahmed Jibril

Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi

News Media Complaints

Arabic: Abu Nidal Real Name: Sabri l-Banna

Arabic say: “first comes Saturday, then comes Sunday…” • Any Arab will know what you are talking

about

• …first you kill the Jews

• …then the Christians

U.S.A. = Great Satan

Israel = Small Satan

Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf” (My Fight)

Muslim Fundamentalists have “Jihad” (My Struggle)

Future Potential Attack

Worst Case Scenario

Electromagnetic Pulse