When will the next terrorist attack occur on U.S. soil?
Someone posted this on another mb. I don't know his source, but it's a very, very interesting read,
"Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: Juval Aviv
Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent whom the movie "Munich" was about. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard and she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
In a lecture in NYC a few weeks ago he shared information that EVERY American needs to know but our government has not shared. His bio is below, his book is "Staying Safe".
First, I am going to share what he discussed in regard to the Bush Administration, 9/11 and Iraq and then I will share his predictions for the next attack on the U.S.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week - O'Reilly laughed and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show and unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack occurred.
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East) to the Bush Administration about 9/11 a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they 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 does not listen to him.
Now for the scary stuff.... He 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 versus looking at strategies that are effective.
1) our machines are outdated. They look for metal and the new explosives are made of plastic
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire - we now have to take off our shoes, a group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives - now we can't bring liquids on board. He is waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on their underwear and light up in a plane or in the terminal and then we will all have to travel naked!
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates, he says that if a 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 even gets involved. Israel checks bags before people can enter the airport.
Now, back to his predictions: He says the next attack will come in a few months and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places that people congregate: Disneyland, Las Vegas, Bi g Cities (NY, SFO, Chicago, etc...) and there it will be shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, casinos, etc.. as well as rural America(Wyoming, Montana, etc...). The attack will be simultaneous detonations around the country (they like big impact) 5-8 cities including rural areas. They won't need to use suicide bombers because at largely populated places like the MGM Grand in Vegas - they can simply valet park!
He says this is well known in intelligence circles but our government does not want to alarm Americans. However, he also said that the US will attack Iran and Syria before Bush leaves office.
In addition, since we don't have enough troops The US will likely use small, strategic nuclear weapons regardless that the headlines the next day will read "US Nukes Islamic World" and the world will be a different place to such an extent that global warming will be irrelevant. He 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 the frontline approach.
He also says the next level of terrorists will not be coming 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 that to change he said...
What can we do? 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 citizens 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.
He did a test for Congress recently putting an empty briefcase in 5 major spots in 5 US 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.... He also discussed how many children were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11 without parents to pick them up and the schools did not have a plan. Do you have a plan with your kids, schools and families if you cannot reach each other by phone? If you cannot return to your house? If you cannot get to your child's school - do they know what to do? We should all have a plan.
He said that our government's plan after the next attack i s to immediately cut-off EVERYONE's ability to use their telephone, cell phone, blackberry because they don't want terrorists to be able to talk to one another - do you have a plan if you cannot communicate directly with those that you love.
The Today Show began with a segment that Al Qaeda was resurfacing - the same kind of action on the Pakistani border occurred before 9/11... It is scary, but we do not have panic, we just need to be aware....
Bio follows:
Juval Aviv holds an M.A. in Business from Tel Aviv University and is President and CEO of 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 world. In addition, Mr. Aviv serves as a special consultant to the U.S. Congress and other policy makers on issues of terrorism, fraud and money laundering.
A leading authority on terrorist networks, Mr. Aviv served as lead investigator for Pan Am Airways into the Pan Am 103-Lockerbie terrorist bombing. He was featured in the recent film, Munich, as the leader of the Israeli team that tracked down the terrorists who kidnapped the Israeli Olympic team.
Interfor's services encompass white-collar crime investigations, asset search and recovery, corporate due diligence, litigation support, fraud investigations, internal compliance investigations, security and vulnerability assessments. Since its inception, Interfors asset investigation services have recovered over $2 billion worldwide for its clients.
Before founding Interfor, Mr. Aviv served as an officer in the Israel Defense Force (Major, retired) 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 1960s and 1970s. While working as a consultant with El Al, Mr. Aviv surveyed the existing security measures in place and updated El Al's security program, making El Al the safest airline in business today.
Most recently, Mr. Aviv wrote Staying Safe: The Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Business, (2004,Harper Resource).
He has been a guest on ABC Nightline, FOX News, CNN, BBC Newsnight, ZDF (German National Television) and RAI (Italian National Television) and has been featured in numerous articles in major magazines and newspapers worldwide."
Re: When will the next terrorist attack occur on U.S. soil?
Within the first year of the next Presidents term. The change over in the administration is critical to the effectiveness, with new appoitees and Cabinet members. The best course for the next President is to change his policies as he sees fit,but to leave persons in their positions and change them out slowly.
I predict multiple hits on large infrastructure pieces such as refineries to strangle us to death. Maybe a large dam such as the Hoover dam or Bonneville dam. Then again a single sniper can paralyze a large area , remember Lee Malvo.
Possible the most devastating attack that may in fact wake the sleeping giant is a Beslan style school hijacking. Chechen rebels learn how affective a school shooting was by watching American TV. Any male capable of resisting was killed out right then the children were herded into a gym and strapped with explosives guarded by suicide bombers were more explosives. Just crowd control was a nightmare for russian security forces, with parents trying to launch their own rescues.
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Juval Aviv has not even been proven to be a member of the Mossad. It's all 'he said...'.
As far as what you wrote, sounds like another email that was passed around a few years ago.
Can you even show when he was on Oreilly?
I call BS.
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hahaha right after here I went here to find the story I referenced and found this...............http://www.snopes.com/rumors/soapbox/juvalaviv.asp
Re: When will the next terrorist attack occur on U.S. soil?
There's so many effective ways terrorists could strike if they only had as much imagination as I do.... that's all I'm gonna say about it.
Re: When will the next terrorist attack occur on U.S. soil?
Despite the fact that this originated in 2005 (thus the 90 days mentioned being outdated and subsequently, incorrect), I think it's safe to say that if/when a terrorist cell really truly wants to attack us, there will be a way for them to do it. We are not invincible, nor will we ever be.
The government can try to make us more invincible by taking away more and more of our personal freedoms, but even then, there will be ways to make it happen.
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if something happens before Bush leaves office. Or directly after.
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Hello_Kitty27
The government can try to make us more invincible by taking away more and more of our personal freedoms, but even then, there will be ways to make it happen.
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if something happens before Bush leaves office. Or directly after.
Agreed!
Re: When will the next terrorist attack occur on U.S. soil?
Nothing will happen till after the election. The terrorists prefer Obama over McCain and attacking before the election works to McCain's favor.
I also think we'll go big time on the offensive after Bin Laden once the election is over.
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Yeah, I was figuring that this was chain letter rubbish.
Regardless, the notion of how vulnerable we are can't be discounted. The terrorists haven't hit since 9/11 partly due to our vigilance, but also partly due to the fact that they are obsessed with "home run" results like toppling a pair of skyscrapers that achieve a high body count, as opposed to smaller more frequent attacks that might not kill as many people, but can be planned under the radar more effectively.
Just think how much damage terrorists could do to our psyche with a dirty bomb set off in the middle of the CA Central Valley, which may kill nobody, but could seriously contaminate our food supply. Think of how easily that terrorists could hide bombs on a college campus, and how many those bombs could kill is planted in high traffic areas. (Consider how just one deranged kid at Virginia Tech was able to kill 30+ with two handguns).
If the terrorists wise up and learn to play small ball, like they've been doing in Israel and Iraq, and as they did in London and Madrid, then we're fucked, and when it happens expect our civil liberties to be curtailed even further.
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Aviv's background is somewhat questionable. It is Not clear he is who he says he is and that he ever worked folr Mossad.
While certainly possible, another attack within the U.S. is not likely. Far more likely is increased activity in Afghanistan and Pakhistan.
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this thread is scaring me.
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I don't like that excerpt.
It spreads ignorance against different ethnics.
Not to mention it makes blind assumptions.
Its worried about terrorists doing that 'stuff' but some of our own American citizens have done shit that is terrorist like in our own country to our own people.
I think America would be better off focusing more time on inside problems than just outside
Re: When will the next terrorist attack occur on U.S. soil?
The next terrorist attack on America will occur in January when McCain or Obama gets elected. No international terrorist group will ever be capable of inflicting the kind of damage today's Republicans and Democrats are foisting upon us. And anyone who believes our govt is not using the Patriot Act and the new FISA laws to spy on its own people is living under a rock. Meanwhile, the globalists and robber barons are selling off pieces of our country to the highest foreign bidders while our Congressmen pat each other on the back for a job well done.
Re: When will the next terrorist attack occur on U.S. soil?
A terrorist attack will happen whenever someone wants to make it happen, I could fly practically anywhere in the world, make a bomb and kill a bunch people tommorow with out anyone stopping me. If people want to kill others they will, all we can do is be vigilant and try and focus on stopping any major attacks.