By Mike Ackerman
Whilst America's company leaders want trustworthy info and services approximately facing threats to body of workers either the following and out of the country, they flip to Mike Ackerman, who for greater than thirty years has helped the company group take care of every thing from random highway crime to worldwide jihad. broadly said as one in every of America's top gurus on terrorism, Ackerman's specialty is getting better kidnap sufferers. He has been concerned without delay in additional than one hundred fifty circumstances. during this finished evaluate, a distillation of his forty six years of expertise in intelligence, army safeguard, and, so much of all, company safeguard, Ackerman explores intensive the hazards, direct and oblique, to multinational organisations from al Qaeda and its associates, and indicates functional countermeasures. equally, at the topics of kidnapping and extortion, the place his adventure is exceptional, he explores dangers and indicates suggestions for prevention and reaction. a number of kidnapping and extortion instances within which he has been concerned are defined in dramatic aspect. Ackerman additionally reviews extensive at the use of bodyguards and armored autos, of the extra debatable topics in company defense, and addresses extensive residential defense. back, arguments are buttressed with concrete examples drawn from Ackerman's lengthy event. Like no different ebook out there, this glorious source is a must-read for company CEOs; CFOs; common information; executives charged with defense, felony, human assets, threat administration and trip administration tasks; in another country tourists; business-school scholars; and, certainly, an individual concerned with terrorism.
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Tribal-based gangs, some masquerading as separatist organizations and some perhaps with real separatist agendas, abducted more than one hundred and fifty foreign oil and oil-service workers in 2007. Some companies suspended operations in the highest-risk portions of the delta, while others, with huge oil revenues at stake, elected to stand their ground and establish comprehensive security programs to safeguard their personnel. A third category, unfortunately, stayed on but failed to bolster security, banking on their insurance arrangements to protect them from the financial exposure from kidnappings.
Only the Indian doctor, the driver of the attack vehicle, was killed in the Glasgow incident, and he had to douse himself with gasoline to accomplish even his suicide. The London car bombing attempts failed because of inoperable cell phone detonators, while the airport attack collapsed because inadequate reconnaissance had failed to take into account the bollards that blocked vehicular access to the airport entrance. Finally, the cell was 40 SECTION 2—CONTENDING WITH GLOBAL JIHAD quickly apprehended because of dreadful operational security.
There were only a few minor casualties, but Gama’a threatened more serious attacks. In July, four of its militants gave a clandestine press conference in Imbaba, a working-class suburb of Cairo and one of its strongholds, demanding an end to tourism and the destruction of the “pagan” pharaonic statues and temples in the south. In September, on the eve of a convention of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA), which the Egyptian government had worked feverishly to bring to Cairo, Gama’a issued another statement, warning tourists to stay out of the southern Egypt tourism centers of Qena and Luxor.
