How do you deal with suicide bombers?
It's a very very complex subject, but effectively what you have is a human element delivering a bomb and people who are usually perceive their situations to be desperate. Desperate people facing overwhelming odds, and if you look in any period in history where suicide tactics has been used, these people are desperate; they're usually brainwashed or so convinced that what their doing is the way to go, there's no way to negotiate with them. Negotiation doesn't work. So usually the only option is lethal force. Suicide bombers have back up radio control, backup timers, and they have what's called a third-eye. A handler who's actually watching them, and if that mission is compromised in any way; If they're interdicted by security forces, that third eye will detonate the device remotely, or if they're shot they'll be in a backup tone that will run down and detonate anyway. So it's very very complicated, and you have to use lethal force and when you go in there if the public is physically there in proximity to the device you've got to physically go in there and neutralize the device by hand and evacuate the public and it's very very difficult to do the whole mechanics of it. Incredibly complicated. So you know. It's a hard one all you can do really is for force, and you got to learn all about suicide devices and how to get in there neutralize them. So one of the jobs I did we spent pretty much two years solidly doing nothing but practicing dealing with suicide devices and we were going to be the UK's response if there was a suicide bomber intelligence driven operation, but during my time it didn't actually happen.
