There ar differing kinds of terrorist attack, however one of them we’ve been more and more seeing within the news lately: Islamist Jihadists take over a public place or business and right away produce terror victims ensuing from being taken prisoner.
The chance of those incidents compared to different dangerous daily events in America ar still essentially slim, when you do the maths. The dangerous news is that even the government projections imply that these kinds of prisoner style acts of terror are the foremost prevalent in the immediate future, as a result of their simple implementing by the lone wolf style of terrorist cells.
The location issue also plays a big role in the frequency potential. If you live in NY, for example, and you regularly patronize Delis and different crowded places, your odds of experiencing something can increase compared to the very low chance of a farmer in South Dakota. But ne’er say never.
Are you ready to face this kind of prisoner scenario, and obtain through it alive? Read the following article and you almost certainly would.
The creepy journey into the mind of the attacker
Terrorist ar dependent on the adrenalin from an avenging power of God rush they get once making a scenario of horrific fear for normal defenseless people.
It satisfies their ought to dominate, subjugate, and punish folks within the name of their delusional belief of the interpretation of their faith. It looks like this can be something that can’t be reasoned with or satisfied in objective social integration. It’s their manner, or the beheading approach.
But to know the private survival plan for these specific situations, you must understand the psychology behind the deadly motivation. Islamic terrorist hostage concerned scenarios ar almost diametrically opposed to hostage things associated with crimes like bank robberies, ransom kidnappings, or standoff situations by a desperate fugitive attempting to escape capture or death by police.
While the essential mechanics of the violence, the statutory designations and punishments of the crimes can be similar, there are vital variations when it comes to the foreseeable future of your life.
The common attackers aren’t usually involved with hostages except as an impromptu in-progress detour from their original plans. The taking of hostages is then caused by a requirement to stall an surprising fast responding police obstruction, or facilitate their escape if surrounded.
The Muslim terrorists don’t care regarding escaping: they’re on a mission from God. They not only aren’t scared of police, however inclined to kill them at any chance. Recently news videos recorded a home grown jihadist who really attacked NY law officer with a hatchet as a primary target right a public street! These terrorists only care regarding proliferating the most terror impact against their perceived enemies, that is just concerning anybody else but themselves.
In fact, they accept the actual fact that they’ll probably not make it out alive and they act consequently and set up on it! It’s known as being a martyr for their cause, in order that they always default to the martyr mode, and take a look at to murder as several others as they’ll before the police take them down.
This is a vital distinction to make for your personal safety if you’re one amongst the hostages. But the factor to simply accept no doubt, is that there’s a way more unlikely survival success ratio during a radical islamist terror hostage scenario. The police already understand this, that creates another danger level in and of itself.
The police generally suppose that the hostages can die anyway, so that they may as well shift their plan of action priority to an immediate assault mode and perhaps they’ll eliminate the terrorists before they try to kill all of the hostages. Police rely on their superior training and techniques to mitigate that outcome and hopefully save of the hostages.
Your actions, or inaction, should reflect that understanding. instead of negotiating with police so snipers don’t take him out while he surrenders or gets away like a robber would sometimes do, the muslim terrorist would rather leave like a zombie and take as several of the hostages with him if he doesn’t get his manner.
And that is what happened in the Charlie Hebdo scenario. Some hostages died, however most were saved. But changing into a terrorist hostage is one amongst the worst predicaments to be in.
So the troublesome to just accept reality is that if you’re taken prisoner by islamist jihadist terrorist, there’ll almost definitely be an attempt by the terrorist to kill the hostages, if the police don’t kill the terrorists 1st. The only different reasonable choices are to think about the following if caught in such a situation.
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Immediately attempt to Escape
AAM – Accute Awareness Mode – is crucial once out in the public particularly at probably targeted locations. In today’s world you can’t be an airhead any longer. It’s just too dangerous in many ways. The simplest preventative measure is to avoid danger by centered awareness.
With police investigation it’s known as profiling. And that’s not essentially a bad issue unless the MSM blows it out of proportion and tries to make it a racial issue. Profiling could be a daily a part of social integration with all people. We use it to search out the person we want to be friends with, the individuals we want to hire, and even a lot of importantly to avoid hassle. And definitely your profiling skills should be ‘fine tuned’ in the expectation of significant personal danger.
While on patrol a cop sees a group of well-known gangsters walking down an alley and they’re all wearing t-shirts but one is wearing a long waterproof when there’s not a cloud in the sky. In the performance of his duty, the cop has immediate reasonable suspicion justification to check this out and may lawfully have an effect on an information query as a part of the duty description. This may then result in probable cause for a stop and frisk.
It is well known in documented police cases that this kind of attire in public under sure attendant conditions may mean that the purpose of a waterproof when there’s no normal need for it, is to cover a firearm or different weapon under that.
Similarly you’re during a shopping center or a social event and someone walks in with a buttoned up jacket that seems extraordinarily and unusually large in fit. He’s looking around suspiciously and nervously and maybe he includes a certain kind of beard that also raises red flags which push all channel buttons on your sixth sense intuition TV. Then you must instantly turn around, and get faraway from there as smoothly, quietly, and as speedily as possible.
You can always return in later if nothing happened. But if an explosion burst, or shooting starts, you’ll be forever grateful that your AA mode saved you by getting you out of there before the SHTF!
Proactively apply awareness techniques need a shift in mental attitude once out and about. Don’t have your ear constantly glued to the smart phone while you’re walking somewhere, tuning out everything around you making yourself a simple target for any predator. And don’t be concentrating on what you’re planning to make for supper to a point that each one your senses are now bolted in visualization of savory stews and delicious desserts.
Make these few things instead:
- Keep checking your outer perimeter circle down the road many yards ahead,
- Check across the road to the side, and even sometimes behind you to get a perspective of who may be following you and how long have they been there,
- Visualize certain potential reaction to danger situations
- See yourself ’reacting’ in your mind’s eye.
You’ve most likely seen the news videos of these gangs who are active those Knock-Out games wherever they literally cripple some innocent passers-by from a fast ambush punch from within the cover of the group to the victim’s face. This may ne’er happen to me and others who, almost as an automatic habit by now, are constantly in AA-Mode. At least not before I put the one attempting to do the knock out in the hospital if he was lucky.
If something starts to appear strange, focus more on that, although you’ve got to momentarily modification direction. This also goes for being stationary in a place of business catering to the overall public. When you search from what you’re doing, always slowly scan in a clockwise 360 degree circle if possible and so back scan once more over a similar scenery counter clockwise. Your subconscious eye can do the rest.
I was once talking to a man I knew outside of a store and the lady he was with said – what’s your problem with maintaining eye contact when somebody speaks to you, don’t you recognize that makes you appear suspicious? I asked her if I appear as suspicious as the two punks I’m looking who keep circling that nice BMW I think is yours? They both turned around and she later apologized for her pseudo body language analysis as we walked over to her automobile that prompted the guilty looking punks eyeballing some things in the back seat to run off quickly.
Begin training yourself to anticipate danger at each turn and visualize however you’d escape in real time observation. That’s why you’ll sometimes tell the plainclothes cops in a restaurant because among different things they prefer to sit in a corner wherever they can observe most of the environment. It’s not being paranoid, it’s being intelligently prudent.
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Hide in Place
Maybe you can’t instantly escape, like in certain businesses where the terrorist is obstructing the main egress to the inside of where you’re cornered, like an old style classroom with only one entrance door or an identical workplace environment. If so, attempt to hide at the first sign or sounds that indicate something is wrong.
There ar cases where folks hid below their desks or in closets nearly right ahead of the armed predators and even called the police and directed them to their rescue. If you’re not detected and relatively secure, you’ll also set up your escape your hiding place if the chance presents itself. Particularly if there ar different exits the hostage taker(s) aren’t aware of.
This can be an choice even though you’re in a group that’s being watched by the prisoner taker, as long as you maintain a low profile and his attention isn’t unduly centered on you. If you’ve got a mobile phone, forget about keeping your best friend, family members, or sweetie-pie because the favorite speed dial button. Make that one 911. You don’t need to be pushing too several digits below stress and time constraints.
Remember this important truth regarding the dynamics of such situations. Not like the films, a moving target is extremely hard to hit, especially with a firearm, though you’re a trained marksman, that the typical armed terrorist is certainly not. Thus making a break for it isn’t a bad option if you’ve got an open way out. If you’re fairly athletic or a quick runner, your odds may be far better of surviving the incident if you are trying a fast escape once no one is looking at you.
If it’s a lone gunman, he may take a shot at you, however he won’t chase you if he misses and risk the possibility of a lot of of the hostages escaping. And even if you get hit but not mortally wounded, you’ll be ready to keep running and as shortly as you’re outside you’ll be in the hands of paramedics.
If you detected in the recent Australian prisoner scenario, at least four hostages were seen running out the door into the arms of police. They made the crucial option to escape, when the terrorist was distracted and not watching them even though it appeared like the terrorist took some shots at them as they fled.
They all survived physically, at least, unscathed. They also helped save the other hostages because they gave the police crucial inside data to facilitate their rescue strategy.
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Don’t Provoke or Irritate the Terrorist
Believe it or not, some people think they’re going to use a similar intimidation techniques they use on their errant teenagers, or learn in their power sales seminars on jihadists. It’s going to have worked at some time or another within the past with an armed criminal to some extent – so perhaps another prisoner may attack the perpetrator while distracted, however I guarantee you this won’t work with a muslim jihadist. They’ll possible just instantly shoot you as an example so others don’t attempt to get froggy.
Don’t forget they’re into submissiveness to their god and that they expect and demand anyone else offer a similar obedience to them. So you’d need to act very submissive and compliant.
One very little secret trick a prisoner may attempt, would be to politely tell your captor if he focuses on you that: I believe you must understand, sir, that I’m not a Jew or Christian but I’m considering becoming a Muslim as a result of I have good friends in my building who are Muslims, so I sympathize with your cause.
In understanding the islamist mentality, this might gain you an instantaneous psychological advantage. At least not get you picked 1st if he decides to begin shooting one of you each hour if his demands aren’t met.
This also may offer you another plan of action advantage once attempting to implement your escape or resistance. Because he may trust you sufficient then to allow you to get closer than the others would.
Otherwise, maintain the lowest profile you’ll. If you’re a female prisoner and are heavily plastered with make-up and a focus drawing lipstick, discreetly try to wipe it off when no one is looking. And don’t speak with the terrorist(s) or perhaps make noticeable eye contact till spoken to. But positively don’t stop thinking.
The terrorist needs you to right away be very scared of him, this can be how they management and manipulate you. So if you can’t instantly escape early and quickly in the initial dynamics don’t succumb to fear and emotional collapse from hopelessness, which detracts from actionable ability and success. There’s always hope. The evil one in the move Hunger Games said: “Hope is a lot of dangerous than fear” to the aggressor.
Don’t think about something but surviving. Management your worry but don’t aggravate the situation.
Spec-ops mission preps currently includes an esoteric exercise that consists of slowly and quietly taking a deep breath, holding it for a count of three seconds, then slowly exhaling. Then repeating this as much as you’ll just before the particular stress launching event. You’ll be shocked at however clear thinking and centered you become while not being irrationally fearful.
Once under control of yourself, then begin to think about however evil this atrocious monster is and start to make up a righteous offensiveness within your survival spirit. This becomes the fuel which will power your inner physical strength to avoid wasting your life if you select to. Don’t let it be seen by the terrorist, just let it cook and simmer till you need it.
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Lead, follow or get out of the way – But do something
Last but not least, is that you can invariably be compelled to create a crucial selection a way or the other in your prisoner scenario. You’ll either resolve yourself to the acceptance of your demise, and go quietly mewling like a lamb to a slaughter, otherwise you may decide that you aren’t going down without a fight?
Doing something generally suggests that to just wait for the opportune time to make a move. Einstein said that: “Nothing happens till something moves”. Therefore the first person to maneuver has the advantage of initial action as hostile the delayed factor in reaction. What happens then, depends upon two things: how good you’re and how lucky you’re. And not essentially in this order.
Good suggests that various things in varied applications. If you’re a decent actor, this typically helps as a distraction advantage in a hostage situation. If you’re physically superior to your captor then this may actually be good if you decided to jump him.
If you create the choice to die trying and you’re not a trained fighter watch for any weapons you’ll use. Restaurants have plenty of knives and forks and even a spoon in the eye would instantly change the dynamics of advantage. Almost everyone these days should be carrying at least a lock blade pocket knife or alittle pepper spray. And something that may be used as a quickly deployed club would be helpful.
A lot depends on your integration with any other hostages. If you had the chance to discuss your scenario because you’ve been herded into a room along but indirectly watched, there can be others willing to go on the offensive as well.
In this case your set up would be for a sudden surprise attack/ambush at a planned signal or move by one of the hostages, whereupon all would converge on the terrorists at once, as quickly and brutally as possible. Or maybe one of you who was a good actor would serve to somehow distract the terrorist momentarily whereas those with the most potential for subduing him can attack directly.
These situational variables are almost impossible to train for in a simple lesson, and ultimately depends on the psychology and presence of mind of the hostages. None of the techniques fit all, and there are typically too several complications to confirm 100 percent success. There is also two or a lot of terrorists, and only two hostages. If the terrorist seems to own a bomb strapped to him/her and a detonator switch in his hand, this can be a extremely dangerous situation. However not entirely without remedy.
In Israel a suicide vested bomber walked into a restaurant and an Israeli commando happened to be there and attacked him when he was distracted and prevented him from explosive the bomb. But unless you’re a hand to hand combat professional your odds are pretty bleak in that sort of prisoner scenario.
These days there are more concealed carry individuals out there than some years ago who are trained well enough to attack the terrorist, having a good probability of succeeding. Add in the off duty cops all over and former military vets and you may be lucky enough that one of these individuals would be among the hostages.
If I, personally, somehow got caught in one of these things I would fight back at the earliest opportune moment. But I happen to be an extensively trained combat handgun shooter and I sometimes carry a weapon with a seventeen round capacity mag in it loaded with special hot and breakable rounds. In other words I can almost instantly get rid of a terrorist, or two, or three, while minimizing the chance of anybody else obtaining hit.
If you feel your lifestyle may put you far more in proximity of such dangerous things, then it might be prudent to become highly skilled ins such martial applications. Ultimately the choice to fight are a commitment to a fight to the death.
Only you’ll make the essential option to risk your life, as there are ne’er any guarantees in such circumstances. Only maybe the police are moving quickly with total success to save lots of the hostages, or some of the hostages can have the presence of mind and physical capacity to favourably modification the inevitable outcome if the terrorist maintains his purpose.
But if you only keep in mind these tips your probabilities of survival can at least be higher, all things thought of.
Some specialists say that the pragmatic terrorist threat in this country is greatly exaggerated because of agenda based mostly politics and that in reality you’ve got a much better, or worse, depending upon perspective, probability of getting hit by a car or shot by a confused law officer than to be involved in a terrorist prisoner scenario.
I guess we’ll all find out sooner or later, won’t we? In the meantime think about what this visionary american patriot once said: “Those who fail to prepare, are preparing to fail.” – Ben Franklin
