1. Global Terrorism
Behind the Scenes of Combating Terrorism
Pre-9/11
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
USF Stavros Center – Tampa Campus
Doyle Theater
Wallace S. Bruschweiler, Sr.
President, Data Security Holding, Inc.
5. 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
8. 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
11. 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
12. Operation “Rooster-53”
Raas-Arab Beach – December 26-27, 1969
P-12 Soviet Radar Station
Estimated at 7 tons
Sikorsky Ch-53 Yasur
Raid used captured Soviet
tanks and personnel carriers
captured during 1967 (The
Six Day War)
13. 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
14. 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
17. 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
26. Bundeskriminalamt
BKA / TE - PIOS
Personen People
Informationen Information
Objekte Object, Target
Sachen Things (general)
27. Ayatollah Khomeini
Return to Teheran, Iran : February 2, 1979
Air France flight from Paris
After more than 15 years in exile
28. 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
29. 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)
30. Tehran – U.S. Embassy
Hostage Taking: November 4, 1979
31. Tehran – U.S. Embassy
Hostage Taking: November 4, 1979
Is it a Coincide nce ? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Today ?
34. 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”
35. Anwar Sadat - Assassination
Cairo: October 6, 1981
Abd al-Rahman
Muslim Brotherhood
1993 World Trade Center
Bombing
1996 Sentenced to life in
Moshe Dayan & Anwar Sadat prison
36. General James L. Dozier
Kidnapping: December 17, 1981
NATO HQ – Verona, Italy
37. Gen. Carlo Alberto della Chiesa
Head of Italian Anti-Terrorism
Assassinated
September 3, 1982
Palermo, Sicily
38. Beirut – U.S. Marines Barracks
Attack: October 23, 1983
241 Americans Killed
Nabib Berri
Ayatollah Fadlallah
39. 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”
40. TWA Flight 847 Athens-Rome
Hijacking: June 14, 1985
Nabil Berri - Amal
U.S. Navy Diver
Killed
Robert Stethem
41. 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
42. 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
48. 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)
