The prestige of the special units is such as the terrorist movements often test the irrepressible need to set up of such formations.

It is from now on an obviousness, the terrorists having perpetrated the attacks of Bombay profited from a drive comparable with that of a unity of elite.

What made tell to Louis , former head of DST currently special adviser at being expressed in the pages of the Sunday newspaper, which in Bombay, it was about a “special force” which “had entered the city by the sea”. Even thesis supported near the Reuters agency at which David , former adviser counter-terrorist near the general and of the minister of state Rice, stated: “even a team [American naval frogmen] would have had evil to install this operation”.

Extract of the work of Jean-Jacques CECILE, Spies and terrorists, editions New World, March 2008.

The terrorists also have their special units

If one sticks so that the soldiers call in their jargon the “techniques, tactics and procedures ”, it is undeniable that there exist strong similarities between the special forces on the one hand and terrorists on the other hand. So much so that some were let go to compare the members of the Special Air British Service with terrorists of State. Referring to his training within themarine one, the former chief of the which is Philippe draws up the same official report: “we learned terrorism. A commando is not anything else, after all, that a group of terrorists who with the law for him… In any case, its means are the same ones”.

The terrorists quickly understood the advantage that there was to discharge these virtuosos of the stick of gelignite.

It is a case , that of Ali Mohamed who “lived a double life proving that reality exceeds sometimes the fiction”. Senior officer of the Egyptian special forces, it is sent first once in training course to the United States. He there emigrates in 1985 and becomes sergeant of the American . And not any sergeant: he is quickly affected in Fort Bragg as instructor as regards means-Eastern crop. This garrison is very safe alleviating: she is regarded as of the #C9675A Berets. She shelters a staff as well as a school of special forces but more especially the Special Gasket Operations Command (JSOC). This command is the last word on the matter: it accepts responsibility for the clandestine operations more “pointed”. Its existence is surrounded by such a halation of mystery that one does not know exactly which unities are subordinate for him. There is, of course, famous “the Delta Forces”, but for the remainder, one is tiny room to the economic situations. And it is in this garrison that Ali Mohamed officiates as an instructor.

But the odyssey of this very special sergeant does not stop there. Soldier of the American armed forces, it accomplishes a stay in Afghanistan under Soviet occupation, officially during his permissions. Curiously, oils of the Pentagon find there nothing to repeat. Its vacation, precisely. Sometimes, it occupies them in a very original way: it spends its weekends in the New Jersey where it involves the fundamentalist islamist ones with the operations of monitoring, the handling of the weapons or the use of the explosives. , it works as expert as regards safety within society Air. One says it implied in the attacks against the American embassies of Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam having taken place in 1998. Inquiring into the murder of a rabbi, the special agents of the Federal Office off Investigation find in the residence of the principal suspect of the military documents concealed by Ali Mohamed; some of them are classified. Among the documents in question, instruction manuals. After September 11th, 2001, the Federal ones nimbly retract Ali Mohamed. Today still, the doubt remains. Was an Al-Qaeda mole within the FBI, a mole of the FBI in the Al-Qaeda rows or a double agent? Quite malignant which can answer this question.

And the case of Ali Mohamed is far from being insulated. Also let us quote that of Mohammed Ibrahim , a close relation of Ben Laden having also been useful during 15 years in the Egyptian special forces. Or that of Mohamed , former police officer of the same country. Or that of , “unity of naval elite” of the independence movement - or terrorist, it is according to - Release off Tamilian . Its “naval frogmen” would have profited from the advised consultings of former instructors of the commandos of a Scandinavian country.

Sometimes, the terrorists profit from an official support using the special forces.

After the conflict against the Israeli forces in Lebanon at the summer 2006, Hezbollah tested the need to reorganize like improving tactical knowledge of its frameworks. The first promotion thus disembarked in Pyongyang in February 2007. Aim: to follow a training course commando near the special forces North-Korean, as well as a formation with the information and the counterespionage.

Finally, the prestige of the special units is such as the terrorist movements often test the irrepressible need to set up of such formations.

Let us quote the 55 thus Brigade for Al-Qaeda and the taliban or Force 17 like “the organization of colonel ” for the PLO of Yasser Arafat. As Chetchnia, the “rebels” followed the same step. It led to the creation of Reconnaissance Sabotage off Martyrs (, also known under the name of Riyadus-have-Saliheen or CLOSE-CROPPED), of Special Regiment (SPIR) as well as International Brigade (IIB). The sect Japanese woman was not in remainder. She also had her own special unit whose missions were the following ones: to supervise, remove like sequestering the recalcitrant followers, infiltrating the police services, to proceed to phone-tappings and “to deal” with avocados engaged by the families. This special unit was directed by , individual introduced like having belonged to the , these clans of shadies claiming traditions specific to the samurais. She had forty covers in Tokyo and concealed the information concealed with the Japanese forces of self-defense.

Are spies and terrorists so different that it is believed? “Finally, the attacks of September 11th, 2001 are an good example of successful clandestine operation”. Uttered by a former officer of the , this sentence takes a specific relief. For old of the British commandos, “the members of the Special Air Service are finally only terrorists of State”. Nowadays, the techniques of the military elites and those of the terrorists resemble each other more and more. The terrorists copy much but invent little. When Richard Reid embarks on board a flight of American Airlines with trapped shoes, it copies in that the techniques of “special” the Nazis. How the knowledge forwarded is between the “secret agents” and the terrorists? Wouldn't the scenario of the next attack of span be registered #7E1C0F on #FFFFFF in the books of history already put in scene by the official organisms of clandestine share? On the basis of this parallel between members of the special forces, spies and terrorists, with which barbarous acts massive can one and must one expect? With final, which is the true capacity of harmful effect of Al-Qaeda and consorts? This book dives in the middle of the shady world where spies and terrorists cross. On the basis of established facts, it draws up a panorama of what the flatterers of Ben Laden could be able to make with simple technological means.