How To Get Your Emailed CV The Attention You Want

How to Write Attention Grabbing Emails for Your CV or Resume
 
Attention: is what your email subject line should create. Many persons base their decision, on whether to open and read an email or ignore it, simply on what is in the subject line. So make sure it is short, direct and most of all informative.

Writing "My CV" is definitely short and direct, but it is definitely not informative and worse it is just plain rude. "Experienced & SIA Licensed CPO at Your Service" is short, direct and yet informative and would definitely get my attention. Think about it, next time you compose the subject line before sending your resume by email.

Your Cover Letter, whether it is in printed form or an email message, should also use the "Attention" factor in its first "heading" and the first full paragraph. The first paragraph should ideally consist of 2-3 or max 4 lines, and basically further "bind" the reader’s attention, so that he will be compelled to read your resume and do it with a positive attitude.

So your first "heading" and paragraph have to be well composed and follow this simple and proved guideline:

Point 1: Communicate the offer - what is your purpose of the communicating and what you are offering.

Point 2: Highlight your best aspects - what are your best qualities and what makes you the ideal candidate for the job.

Point 3: Engage the reader – what do you know that is of direct relevance to the position or company you are applying with.

When your head line and opening paragraph accomplishes to deliver all three points, then the Human Resource department or receiver will open and read your resume! So put some real work into it, after all it is your economic future and security career that you are securing by adding a little extra work to your resume.

Your resume (or curriculum vitae), combined with the cover letter, are the master keys to opening the prospective employer's mind and the company door; so that you can proceed to the next step in the process - the job interview!

Dan Sommer - http://www.dansommer.biz


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Enjoy a Successful Career through Simple Career Planning

To improve your life and career quickly and efficiently, you only need to have a genuine desire for a specific change! Obviously, a genuine desire is always in alignment with your values. Because, if it is not, then either your desire or your values are not genuine.


Once you have come to realise what that genuine desire is, and have ensured that it is consistent with your personal values. Then all you have to do is simply to move in the obvious direction that leads towards your desire.

The 3 Pillars of Career Success
You can start by reading several selfhelp books or listen to motivational cd's and subscribe to career related newsletters. There are loads of information out there about the right way and the ultimate solution etc. Hey, I have even written some of them and I also publish a newsletter and I would be glad to have you buy them and subscribe to them. But, you are really no different from any of the socalled Guru's or from me.

In fact you have all the same potentials and unless you are mentally or physically impaired, then you can make you career as success story all by yourself, if you so desire. All you have to do is learn and follow the Three Pillars of Career Success.

Point 1. Nothing happens until something moves

Point 2. Become internally who you want to be externally

Point 3. It is not the journey itself, but the destination that is imporant

Career Coaching is simply Career Planning
There are never any "solutions" to life's problems, including career problems, there are only gradual improvements. When you search for solutions, you are wasting precious time and energy, which you could instead have used to make several small but highly important improvements.

Every journey and career move, begins with a small step and continues step by step until you reach your destination. However, once you are there and have enjoyed the sights and experiences, you will feel the urge to go to somewhere better. That is the natural journey of life and it is a journey that never ends, and which consists of many different phases and travels, which will take you to various places.

To effectively move forward in your career, you will have to keep looking forward and you will have to regularly look up towards your points of destination. However, in order for you to arrive successfully, you will have to look most at what is directly in front of you. This is essential so that you can steer around any obstacles and avoid any pitfalls. Thus you should only look up at your point of destination, in order to keep your general point of direction.

The problem most people have with their career and life, is that they look to the past for causes and to the future for solutions. Thus they go through life and carrer with one leg stuck in the past and the other leg ahead in the future. As a result... they are "urinating" on today's opportunities!

If your daily actions is build upon a "future vision" that is based on some "utopian" idea. And if your current re-actions to chalenges and problems are based on finding causes in your past, and what has happened. Then you will be using those causes as excuses for your current problems and recent failures. Well... is it then really a mystery, why your current career situation seems stained with "yellow"?

Referring back to Point 1. "Nothing happens until something moves", then that simply mean that if you genuinely want change your career or specific parts of it, then you need to take action. You will need to move your life and your career in a new direction Today! Planning and research is good, but too much planning and research is just an excuse for delaying actions due to fear of failure.

Referring back to Point 2. "Become internally who you want to be externally", that that simply mean that you have to have the self-discipline to change yourself and your life. Do not allow yourself to fall into the trap in which you pretend to yourself and others that you do not know what to do or how to do it. You already know what you need to do and you know how you can learn to do it, SO STOP Wasting Time and Just DO IT!

Referring back to Point 3. "It is not the journey itself, but the destination that is imporant", then that simply mean that Whether your journey is constantly fun and exciting, or at times seems long and hard. Then it is important to realize that it is not the specific phases of the journey that is important, it is the arrival at your chosen destination that is important.

Your Career Development
Every choice you make affects your life and career, whether for good or for bad depends entirely upon you. You will know exactly what choices to make, if you just allow your values to lead you towards your goals. Start by focusing on what you have achieved in your career and you will soon find yourself feeling good about yourself. When you feel good about yourself then other people will also feel good about you. Your career will only move in the direction you lead it and it will only move at a pace equal to the time and energy you put into it.


Dan Sommer is a world known Security & Protection Consultant and training program designer. Dan both teach and coach from his immense experience in successful Marketing & Business Management strategies to small businesses, entrepreneurs and Close Protection Officers, who are setting up their own consultancy and protection agencies.

Dan regularly posts informative and at times provocative articles in magazines and ezines and he publishes monthly newsletters. Dan has worked on security and protection projects in several countries including: Denmark, England, Hong Kong, Iceland, Macau, Mexico, Northern Ireland and Wales. As a consultant he has coached and mentored more than 300 students from 15 different countries and three continents.

Dan has completed dozens of security, protection and counter terrorism courses and has Diplomas in Marketing & Business Management. Go to http://www.dansommer.biz to learn more about how Dan can help you succeed.


How To Write Your Close Protection Resume

Submitting your CV should be considered part of your employment interview and thus be treated with the same level of professionalism and preparation. First of all there are a common misunderstanding that a resume and a CV is the same thing, it is not! CV stands for Curriculum Vitae, which is Latin and means "Life history". A CV is therefore commonly from 4 to 10 pages long as it covers ones "life history", the CV is most commonly used in higher positions within the corporate and intellectual environment.

The Resume

What is most commonly used in the Close Protection world is a Resume. A “Resume" is a really a brief introduction to your full CV. Thus in your resume you include the vital points from your CV in a short and simple manner. As the resume is a short version of your CV it should preferably be one to two pages long.

Getting started

If you are using Microsoft Word as your editor then save yourself time on the layout, by simply opening Word. In the "File" tap choose "New", from the "right panel" options choose "General Templates" and from the Templates menu choose "Other Documents", then open "Elegant Resume" or "Professional Resume" based on your personal preference. I prefer the elegant version, but that's just me.

The template you have opened will give you a general layout of what information should go where etc. However, when it comes to writing your details then the template cannot provide you with more than a generic description; this is where you need to be creative. Having a resume that merely looks good isn’t going to cut it, you need a resume that will be opened and read.

Don't be lazy and just quick type your resume into the email message, there is nothing more annoying for the receiver, than having to copy and paste the information into a Word document before it can be saved. Ask yourself why should someone else do your work for you? And then ask yourself, if you think that will help you get a contract? I am sure it won't! Most résumé’s that have been written directly into the email message gets lost in the inbox somewhere or are simply deleted.

Your Cover Letter

It always amazes me that so many applicants send their resume, with the subject line flatly saying “My CV or Resume”, and the email itself often contains no text but simply has an attached CV or Resume. How well prepared is that? The first thought a receiver will have of the person, who emailed this message will likely be something like this; “if you are that lazy when it comes to writing and delivering your resume, your work ethics is most likely just as lazy…”. After that thought they are very likely to simply press the delete button!

A CPO, who is sending out his CV or Resume, is actually asking strangers in HR positions, to either hire him or find him a close protection contract. But he does not even have the courtesy to say thank you, or please, or even introduce himself first. He is so full of arrogance that he feels everyone he sends it to, should be overly joyful that he has shown them mere humans, the honour of applying for a position with their company. Well no matter what is in that resume, it is not going to place him on top of any HR managers lists for anything; it is simply going for the deleted items bin… and I am know that I am not the only one who does that!

Therefore you need to write a cover letter, which goes with your resume that introduces you and your reasons for sending your resume. The cover letter is the key that unlocks the door for you and give the receiver a little knowledge about you, before he either deletes your message, or opens and read your resume. To not just unlock the door, but also open it, requires that your cover letter makes the receive wants to read your attached resume!

The AIDCA Approach

The AIDCA approach has been used in advertising and marketing for decades and it is still being used because it works. Your resume is your advertising brochure, aimed at selling your personal services to a CP employer; you need to approach your job applications as if it was a marketing campaign, which it is! Because, if you want to compete for the few contracts that are available for outsiders; you need to “sell” yourself and your experience and skills better than all the other applicants.

AIDCA stands for:

• Attention
• Interest
• Desire
• Conviction
• Action

Attention: is what your email subject line should create. Many persons base their decision, on whether to open and read an email or ignore it, simply on what is in the subject line. So make sure it is short, direct and most of all informative.

Writing "My CV" is definitely short and direct, but it is definitely not informative and worse it is just plain rude. "Experienced & SIA Licensed CPO at Your Service" is short, direct and yet informative and much more likely to catch the attention of the receiver. Think about it, next time you compose the subject line before sending your resume by email.

Your Cover Letter, whether it is in printed form or an email message, should also use the "Attention" factor in its first "heading" and the first full paragraph. The first paragraph should ideally consist of 2-3 or max 4 lines, and basically further "bind" the reader’s attention, so that he will be compelled to read your resume and do it with a positive attitude.

So your first "heading" and paragraph have to be well composed and follow this simple and proved guideline:

• Communicate the offer - what is your purpose of the communicating and what you are offering.

• Highlight your best aspects - what are your best qualities and what makes you the ideal candidate for the job.

• Engage the reader – what do you know that is of direct relevance to the position or company you are applying with.

When your head line and opening paragraph accomplishes to deliver all three points, then the Human Resource department or receiver will open and read your resume! So put some real work into it, after all it is your economic future and security career that you are securing by adding a little extra work to your resume.

Your resume (or curriculum vitae), combined with the cover letter, are the master keys to opening the prospective employer's mind and the company door; so that you can proceed to the next step in the process - the job interview!

Interest: this is the first "body" section of your resume, and this is the second most important part. You have to make sure it that the first two parts stimulates the interest of the reader, so that he will continue to read the rest of your CV. That means that in the interest part, you should describe your last employment relevant actions such as; a recent job function, related military background, police background of relevance, specific security operations or special training you have completed etc.

Desire: this is the third part of your resume and should describe your complete employment history in order of relevance. Always place the most relevant position first, then follow with a chronological list of your all other employment records. Always start the chronological section with the most recent position first and then backwards through time.

If your history of employment includes positions of little relevance to what you are applying for, then simply state the position, date and company/employer, do not describe what you did if it is not relevant. For all prior job positions that are of relevance, you should describe what responsibilities you had and the positive effect your involvement had. This is where you have to take some honour upon yourself, whether you like it or not. A resume is not the right place to display humbleness; unless of course you are applying to be a priest!

Basically the desire part should make the reader think positively about having you and your skills in their company and how they would benefit from that; you need to make them desire to have you working for them!

Conviction: this is the part where you include your references, your written recommendations, your accomplishments and any merits and medals you have received. Provide full contact details for at least two people, who hold positions of relevance and are ready to vouch for you, and recommend you to the new employer. Make sure the referee, is a person that would himself hire you again if needs be. There is a standard “coy” question all human resource managers ask… “Well that sounds fine, so you would be happy to have him work for you again tomorrow?” “Eeeh… well no because we did not get along that well and his work ethics are different than mine eeeehhh so…” And that is all the HR manager needs to dump your application in the waste bin. Make sure you only provide the referees that were happy with your performance!

When reading this part of your resume, the reader should feel confident that everything you have stated so far is correct, and that you are indeed a competent and highly trustworthy individual, whom the reader would be lucky to employ before someone else gets you.

Action: the final part of your resume, this is where you should include an "action trigger" that will compel the reader to contact you for a conversation or to schedule an interview. Therefore this part has to be specific about when you will be available and how to best contact you. A lot of CPO's who sends out their resume, only place their contact details at the top; which is a good place to have it, but you have to repeat the contact details again in this part and with a prompt, to contact you today.

One way to get the reader to take action and contact you are to include a specific date and time, which you are planning a visit with them for an interview. "As you have seen in my resume then I have the necessary skills and experience that your company needs and would therefore like to present myself for a proper employment interview. I will be in your area/city on Wednesday next week and will call on you at 10 am, if that suits your schedule."

With a direct and timed call like that, the reader will have to get back to you, even if he does not want to or are not capable of meeting you at that time. This response gives you an extra opportunity, for communicating with the reader. Just make sure that you are ready and able to keep the appointment yourself!

Now print this message and read it again; then sit down and rewrite your resume using the basic guideline included in this message and then go and apply with those companies that have not employed you yet. Don't be concerned about sending your resume to the same company again; just include in the description line that this is your updated resume. Send it every three to four months, and within a year they will remember your name even if they have not had any positions for you yet. Being known and remembered is a key to getting employed. In many sectors of the private security industry it is not “What you know but who you know, that gets you a job”. So get known by repeated communications, but don’t stalk them!

My last advice is these ten points, which are wise to remember when writing your resume.

1. Keep it focused and businesslike

2. More than two pages is to much for a resume

3. Check the grammar and try to get the punctuations right, always remember to spell check and have someone read it over for you

4. Keep the resume relevant to the specific company or position

5. Make sure it looks good and reads well, have "white" space in it, that mean empty space and not a page that is filled from edge to edge.

6. Make sure you describe what you can do today, not only past skills but also what you are presently learning

7. Be honest; self advertising is good, but exaggerations are not

8. Follow any specific instructions if required by the company you are applying to, for both the format and content

9. Make sure your resume is received, specify the receiver and follow up with further emails or even better a phone call

10. Use a cover letter and keep it short and focused on catching the attention of the reader

Good luck with your job hunting!

Dan Sommer is a world known Security & Protection Consultant and training program designer. Dan both teach and coach from his immense experience in successful Marketing & Business Management strategies to small businesses, entrepreneurs and Close Protection Officers, who are setting up their own consultancy and protection agencies.

Dan regularly posts informative and at times provocative articles in magazines and ezines and he publishes monthly newsletters. Dan has worked on security and protection projects in several countries including: Denmark, England, Hong Kong, Iceland, Macau, Mexico, Northern Ireland and Wales. As a consultant he has coached and mentored more than 300 students from 15 different countries and three continents.

Dan has completed dozens of security, protection and counter terrorism courses and has Diplomas in Marketing & Business Management. Go to http://www.dansommer.biz to learn more about how Dan can help you succeed.


Terrorism versus Definitions

Does definitions of terrorism really affect specific acts of terrorism and the general publics opinion. Can terrorism be defined by anyone without bias....I doubt it and I believe that in the long run it wont make a difference anyway. Terrorism can in my opinion only be stopped by pro-active measures designed to affect, detect and stop the actual terror acts.

Let us start by considering for a brief moment what terrorism is and what it is not, to many people that may sound like a simple matter; but when it comes to definitions, they are as different and many as the persons you ask. In the book Political Terrorism, authors Schmidt and Youngman cited 109 different definitions of terrorism. After having studied and taught on aspects of terrorism and counter terrorism since 1996, I have yet to come up with a definition that can stand up to my personal scrutiny.

The problem is that, it is actually a rather complicated matter, it usually comes down to your personal point of view and on which side of the conflict you are. Margaret Thatcher has been quoted as saying "one mans terrorist, is another mans freedom fighter" and that quote is unfortunately very true. From the FBI webpage one can find that; terrorism is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations as:

"...the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."

That sounds simple and easy to agree upon, until people of different cultures, religions and political views start asking questions and making interpretations. With this definition we can easily declare that when the ALF explode a bomb at an animal testing facility, it is terrorism. We can also easily state that when anti-abortion activists explode a bomb at an abortion clinic it is terrorism. In both cases we can argue that the FBI definition leaves no legal room for moral or religious arguments to support such actions. But the definition immediately blows up in our face when other views of this definition are called up, basically from the above definition anyone, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime was a terrorist by FBI standards, as they were trying to coerce a government.

So we must agree that there is room for interpretation of the US FBI definition. So let’s quote one of those interpretations:

"The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in the reason for which each fights. For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorists." Yasser Arafat
Quoted from: Inside Terrorism, Bruce Hoffman - 1998 - Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 0575065095

This is stated by the man who for decades were not only considered a terrorist but also organized and carried out terrorist acts, at least they are considered terrorist acts by most of the western world. However his statement does ring true and close to hearth to many of us, if we ignore who made it and give the statement a moment of consideration. What he is saying is essentially that the American rebels who fought the British Empire and won the independence of a new nation, was freedom fighters and not terrorists, even if they were labeled terrorists by the British. He is also defending the French Resistance fighters who fought against the Nazi occupation and carried out acts of sabotage and assassinations of Nazi’s and their French Vichy collaborators, these Resistance fighters were labeled terrorists by the Nazis and the Vichy government.

If we accept Yasser Arafat’s statement and the definitions that both the American Rebels and the French Resistance fighters were not terrorists but in reality a sort of "heroes", we also have to conclude that Palestinian attacks in Israel are not terrorism, that the IRA attacks in the UK are not terrorism, that the ETA attacks in Spain are not terrorism, that the Iraqi attacks on coalition forces are not terrorism, that the LTTE’s attacks in Sri Lanka are not terrorism, and an endless list of other groups and unspeakable acts of barbarism by so many extremist groups worldwide.

But if we decide then to reject the statement of Arafat and go back to the US definition as upheld by the FBI; we still have a problem because the US definition starts by "the unlawful use of force or violence…." Then the problem immediately arises as to the definition of the words "unlawful" and "force", what does that mean exactly?

How do we define those terms? Because when the US declared the "War on Terror" following the apalling 9-11 attacks, which caused 2,752 civilian casualties. Most of us would agree that using military force in attacking the Al Qaeda strongholds in Afghanistan were a justified act of military force. However the following US aerial bombardment, of not just Al Qaeda but also the Taliban government’s strongholds caused 3,767 civilians casualties, between October 7th and December 10th 2001. That is 1015 more deaths, than the attack that was retaliated.

The justification for declaring war on the Taliban government of Afghanistan, was that the Al Qaeda and the Taliban government were so closely allied, that they were jointly responsible for the 9-11 attacks. However the counter-terrorism actions caused 1000 more innocent civilian life’s, than the terror attacks it was meant to retaliate for. Is that acceptable to us? Is that justice? Do the deaths of 3,767 innocent Afghan civilians, relieve the loss of 2,752 US and foreign nationals killed in the 9-11 attacks?

If you were an innocent Afghani citizen and your house have been bombed by the "War on Terror" allies; your family members killed in the bombings, will your nights be filled with nightmares of terror images of explosions and deaths? Will you consider the retaliations as being just or as acts or terror? Will you seek to retaliate for the injustice done to you and your dear ones?

Immediately many will argue, that these unfortunate civilian losses are not intended and that they are collateral damage in a legally declared war. And that, civilian losses are an unfortunate part of every war and are often part of a necessary but tragic tactic of war; such as the blanket bombings of Dresden in Germany during the WW-2. When the city was destroyed as a psychological part of the allied forces war against the Third Reich; the city of Dresden was neither an important military target, nor an important infrastructural part of the Third Reich; it was bombed to break the fighting will of the German nation. Similarly the horrific nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a similar psychological warfare, that proved efficient in breaking the fighting will of the Japanese nation. Although these events were horrific they were nevertheless carried out as military strategies, in legally declared wars and infrastructure is part of the enemy’s strength and thus a military target.

The problem with this argument and the justification of civilian losses from a legally declared war, as being tragic but unavoidable collateral damage, is that the Islamic terrorists can use this justification as well. In 1998 Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda declared war on America (US) from one of the terrorist groups training camps in Afghanistan. If we agree to the US rationale that the Taliban government were so closely allied with the Al Qaeda group, that they were in fact jointly responsible for the 9-11 attacks. Then we must also accept that when Osama Bin Laden declared war on America, he did so of behalf of the Afghani-Taliban government and thus the war on America was a legally declared war. Therefore the attacks on 9-11 were legitimate attacks on the enemy’s infrastructure as the WTC were a part of America’s strength and the Pentagon was definitely a military target. The civilian losses were then tragic but unavoidable collateral damage in the cause of a just war. This of course if the argument that is upheld by the Islamic terror leaders, who are responsible for the 9-11, attacks and countless other terror attacks.

The US led coalition war on the former "Saddam Hussein regime" in Iraq, the invasion and the aerial bombings, was initially due to the facts that the Iraqi regime produced and stockpiled weapons of mass destruction, from which the world was at risk and due to the connection between the Iraqi regime and Al Qaeda. Both facts have since then been proven to be at best wrong and at worst fabrications of facts. Absolutely no weapons of mass destruction has been found and terrorist-expert Rohan Gunaratna has stated;

"In addition to listening to 240 tapes taken from al-Qaeda's central registry, I debriefed several al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees. I could find no evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. The documentation and interviews indicated that al-Qaeda regarded Saddam, a secular leader, as an infidel".

Rohan Gunaratna’s findings on Al Qaeda has been used and quoted by the US government, whenever the findings were in accord with the views of the US Department of State, thus we must also agree to his findings in relation to Iraq and Al Qaeda. Furthermore the UN has declared that the US led invasion of Iraq, was an illegal act and against UN approval. Based on the US FBI definition of terrorism, that would make the invasion and the following civilian sufferings "unlawful", thus making the US led war on Iraq an act of terrorism and even worse than that, it would make it "state sponsored terrorism".

Undoubtedly, the US Department of State and the FBI would not agree to this view of the war in Iraq. But if we judge the use of force and violence and the effect on both the former Iraqi regime and the Iraqi civilian population and that the war has been declared unlawful by the UN, then we must accept that the US war in Iraq is indeed "terrorism".

Unless of course we decide that the US definition of terrorism is not to be taken fundamentally, but are open to further political clarification, and that the terms "force" and "unlawful" are open to debate, depending on what one can consider a just war etc. That, however brings us back to Arafat’s definition of what is not terrorism and thus the US and the coalition forces find themselves justified by Arafat’s words; words from a former terrorist whom the US would normally not want to side with. Thus we are left with "Ironlady" Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote:

"One mans terrorist, is another mans freedom fighter"

Thus from the above definitions and findings; I believe it is fair to state that so far "we" have not been able to agree upon a definitive "definition" of terrorism, there are simply to many factors and words that remains open to case-by-case interpretation!

Thus I have personally come to the conclusion that my definition of terrorism; "is any act of force or violence that is either meant to cause terror or does by its affects cause terror among a civilian population". Thus any act of force that causes civilian casualties or causes terror among civilians are an act of terror; whether the act were carried out by a "true" terror group, a repressive regime or an democratically elected government.

But, does my personal opinion really matter? Will my opinion change the tactics of future and present warfare or the methods and targets of terror groups? I sincerely doubt it!

As it is so difficult to even reach the definition of who a terrorist is and what an act of terrorism is; then perhaps we should leave that part to the politicians, whom hopefully one day will come up with a definition that at least the majority of the world’s population can agree upon.

Perhaps then we should rather focus on the cause that drives a person to become a terrorist and the ideology that justifies his acts of terrorism. Clearly one might expect that we can find such causes in lack of freedom, oppressive regimes and tyrants, among the poor and uneducated; surely it is the lack of global justice that causes terrorism. And if so solving these problems should be easier and give us clearly defined goals to work towards. Something we can actually achieve in the real world and not just in some utopian blissful world. If we ensure that the UN has a strong mandate, that democratic elections are increased worldwide and that we work towards a more equal share of wealth among nations; terrorism should eventually decline and disappear.

It sounds great and relatively simple at least in theory; however the truth is very different, the real truth is that although many terrorists comes from poor and uneducated societies and have suffered many injustices; the fact remains that terrorist leaders and those who define the terrorist’s ideology are usually all from the educated middleclass. People who have been brought up in relative safety, who have attended colleges and universities, who have had an economic situation that were far better than the majority of the worlds population lives in.

"Contrary to popular beliefs, this ideology is not borne out of poverty. This is a common misconception. Empirical evidence finds little correlation between poverty and militant Islam as conventional wisdom would suggest. In surveys conducted among various members of this sect, it is found that they come from the middle classes and are educated, competent and motivated. Many of them come from families in the civil service. Rather than the downtrodden, they represent the leaders of their generation. In fact Islamists that make the ultimate sacrifice of their lives tend to be financially at ease, educated and privileged."
Quoted from: Ten-Sigma, Jim Puplava – Storm Watch Update March 13, 2003. Financial Sense Online

This then makes it clear that the current war on terror groups like Al Qaeda; cannot be won by solving the unjust distribution of world wealth, or through education and better standards of living or even through freedom from regimes or tyrants. Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, in his biography of the September 11 killers, described that their terrorism acts were driven by money, education, and privilege. But it is not just among the Islamic terrorists we see such trends, it is an equal trend among leftist and single issue terror groups as well as many right wing militant groups. Examples can easily be found among the western terror groups such as the former German terror group Rote Armé Fraction, the Italian terror group the Red Brigade, the UK/US Animal Liberation Front and the Japanese Aum Shinri-Kyu. All members of the above terror groups have grown up in democratic countries, attended public education and many have gone to colleges or universities and none of them were poor.

Thus, until "we" learn to negotiate globally and earnestly try to understand our adversaries and respect their views, we will continue to experience terror acts. However those specific terror acts are not as unexpected as many politicians and intelligence services would have us believe. Their main reason for always stating, that it is virtually impossible to protect the millions of possible terrorist targets worldwide, is the fact that they have failed to understand terrorism and to allocate resources to actively combat terrorism in the "trenches". The former leader of the German, Bader-Meinhof group once said;

"If we have a free path we go forward. If we meet an obstacle we go around it. If the object cannot be overcome, we retreat. When the enemy is unprepared, we surprise him. If he is alert we leave him alone."

Thus in my book "Terrorist Modus Operandi" I describe in detail specific terror acts and the actual planning process or "Modus Operandi" of terrorist groups; because I know it is possible to affect, detect ad stop terrorist acts. Terrorist acts can be more effectively stopped by utilizing pro-active defensive tactics and strategies, than by political definitions, aerial bombardments and open acts of war. But, to effectively affect, detect and stop terrorist acts, we need to thoroughly understand the terrorist’s "Modus Operandi".

A sound introduction to the terrorist planning process can be found in my first book: SD Specialist - The Surveillance Detection Manual, see www.SurveillanceDetection.biz for details.


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