Terrorist is preparing an attack there were terrorists dont just aim to kill a lot of people here but also to attract a big audience. The threat to germany has changed in recent years. To what is twitter today terrorism is all about small operations with little logistical effort going now no to this now of course islam is terrorism remains a dangers but there is also the growing threat of right wing terrorists in. They intervene when no one else can help g. S. T. 9 geminis police unit. I would like people to be less afraid because they know that were here. Right now and. Does t. Is to make germany safe well follow these men on their daily routine so you know kind of theyre not machines they have killings. So i have written notes that well not so my family. No t. V. Crew has ever got so close to g s g 9. Near bonn the former german capital. Lots of carports and freshly trimmed front garden. This is also the headquarters of a special unit of germanys federal police the Border Protection group g s g 9. Model and the all new front of them i was hired here at the braves ive seen the chance chain 9 guys through the fence and wondered what kind of people they were. You see them in movies videos and documentaries. But then you see them at lunch or driving to shooting practice and you think thats cool. Meanwhile the commander arrives at the side gates. For me this is how the day usually start and its a pleasant retain a minimal ill talk on. It gives you a chance to gather your thoughts and think about what you can expect over the next few hours. But lots of people start their day at work like this. And we followed the 3rd squad of g. S. T. 9 for an entire summer and gotten and well. Most of their work is top secret its the nature of their mission and thats why dearest you 9 insisted on prior approval of all the videos shown in this report. Over in iraq will take the case comes to an open stop coming place. Except for the commander we cannot reveal the identities of any other g. S. T. 9 men this. To. Getting a real insight into what we do here. The way we are how we live. But i think that everyone will understand why we cant show our faces from kind of our. Base am roll call for the 3rd squad. Point. We cant reveal exactly how many men are in this unit. G. S. T. 9 takes on about 30 missions a year during downtime they train. Today theyll be using the practice every nation. A little 302234 the tango. Plus 30223 f. X. X. And 309 millimeter f. X. Almost a 1000 rounds enough to eliminate a large number of terrorists someone to. Go. Clinkers just an alias the men of genius 290 have nicknames. You know. People get a nickname during training. Might be linked to something thats happened to them or to their real name. And theyll keep that nickname the entire time they. Get used to 9 members have aliases like granny all neat and well then the squad leader is cool mopsy. Commanders are home folks is also taking part in the exercise hes been the head of t. S. A. For 5 years he spends most of his time in meetings but today hes right in the thick of things. We have a heavily armed perpetrator in a building that can only be reached from the air. The entrances are barricaded and possibly booby trapped. So well have to get in through the roof. Choppers to make our approach. Meanwhile somewhere in berlin. A terrorist is planning an attack. He gets his instructions from the member of the socalled Islamic State his plan an attack that involves the use of the powerful toxin rice and. The terrorist wants to use a homemade explosive to spread the rice and this is only an exercise but it has similarities with the real case hed seen far. In attack in which russell is you should have a devastating effect. Were not talking about the deaths of several people but just pushing vengeful it would be much more seriously and that would be from guns i dont see in all your movies since id like them or snobbish and weve long known from intelligence reports that terrorist groups are trying to carry out attacks with nuclear biological and chemical weapons im still can tell and we know from the right in case that it can be a fairly simple operation and for horses. Anyone can legally order the ingredients with this kind of biological weapon on the internet raisen is extracted from plant seeds in 2018 a terrorist in cologne was preparing a rice an attack but police managed to prevent it. Below does a middle of many of these substances including nitrogen and other fertilisers are used as part of a completely legal activity. So the authorities cant ban them outright thats our job is to find out whether these materials are going to be. Used illegally and. Planned. Germanys interior ministry believes that coordinated simultaneous terrorist attacks such as took place in paris and 2015 or in brussels a year later unlikely right now. For a long time we dont with terrorists who try to organize attacks that would kill as many people as possible. Those attacks also involved elaborate planning. But then they switch to what we call low threshold operations which are less complex and target a smaller number of people. That was what happened in 2016 in central but then when the nice henri plowed a stolen truck into the Christmas Market killing 12 people. Although the socalled Islamic State has been defeated militarily there are almost 300. 00 islamists in germany alone and Police Believe that they could attack at any time. Movie. Life all that i ask and try to do now is to hurt us in our own countries that include small individual attacks and individual murders and talk to. Germany faces a number of threats not only the danger of islamist terrorism but also an increased risk of right wing attacks was. The magnitude of that danger was brought into focus by the october 29000. 00 synagogue attack and the murder of. A few months. Of problems of right wing extremism and terrorism have been ignored for a long time. Doesnt weve learned nothing from the n. S. U. Scam. Just a minute. In fact i believe that were seeing just the tip of the iceberg. And we dont know yet how great the threat really is. Is the g. S. T. 9 squad leader mopsy and his men train every day to deal with these situations. In this drill gunman have dug in at an Industrial Park and are shooting at innocent civilians its just a Training Exercise but the tension is still real. And squad doesnt know the terrain theyre under extreme time pressure and they know that the assailants will stop at nothing you mean obviously if my men have no idea what theyre getting into they face a lot of risks in similar situations when the. Things are tense. In Training Missions we do things that you cant prepare for. You create conditions that put the squad under simulated pressure. Theres a lot of psychological stress. These men can dive dropping by parachute or of hell from a helicopter in seconds while carrying 35 kilos of equipment on their backs. There are about 400 men in g s g 9 their job is to deal effectively with terrorists hostage takers or heavily armed criminals. We do a lot of training and shooting a few so we can avoid the latter as possible and real washington with our. G s g 9 reports directly to the interior ministry and can be deployed at home and abroad its mission is to secure as much evidence as possible while keeping Collateral Damage to a minimum or most fish caught you can easily learn the skills necessary for this job youve got to have a high level of social competence psychological strength to deal with stress. And above all the ability to work very well in a team is a good intimidation and thats why our by you can kind of. I dont want to be rambo. We have to be cautious we cant just rush in and blow everything up as from this is that no ones going to open fire unless theyre in an immediate threat situation as a scorched operations. Since it was founded in the early 1970 s. Geas to 9 has carried out almost 2000 missions they claim to have fired their weapons just 8 times. In. History 9 functions like a well coached sports team they work out of rough strategy in advance but can adapt to situations they encounter in the field. To maximize the sense of trust in the squad they run drills like this one. It also helps them to subdue the human instinct to flee when facing pennants you have to be aware of whats out there especially when youre being shot at. But if we werent afraid wed be the wrong people for the job but which is in the end of course we feel fear but we train a lot to counteract the Training Exercises help us to control that fear when things start happening when you go through one of these i think you communicated well we covered you it worked fine for us but how was it for you for going to. Mopsy is 421 of the oldest members in the unit he joined what was then the federal Border Police 24 years ago and then pass the Entrance Exam for g s g 9. Hes been on 50 Missions Including operations in mali and iraq. And i probably could have been a firefighter or an ira medic. Mentioned so i havent i just enjoy helping people remind us often i can do that with these units at a very high level and thats very satisfying or. It was a nice job really means a lot to me as a. Field. Here a terrorist is scouting locations he wants to kill as many people as possible and he wants to attract attention to. Those with this time terrorism is an act of violence its main aim is to use symbolic highly visible dramatic acts of violence to spread fear among the public well its all done for effect its a communicational strategy that sends a message to a target audience. Think it on what its designed to affect our people use a public space for public transport go to work here. The terrorist wants to launch his rice and attack in berlin because of the citys symbolic importance as germanys capital. In the world who are in parliament on cities like berlin that are home to a nations parliament and many other institutions places with lots going on are attractive vaults of quantizer guns institutes who want to hear but exactly that makes them a prime target for terrorists offer to hochtief. Terrilyn hasnt had a counterterrorism unit up to now and thats something were having to change. In the car that was of g. S. T. In 9 squads 3 no one suspects that an attack is imminent you are practicing in secret all this time. Alone. Every member of g s g 9 has his own bunk in the sand augustine barracks although most live with their families nearby only a few actually sleep here. It smells of homemade curry the men spend more time in the barracks than anywhere else. How many banks are. In the ocean from probably 5. To morrow zorros going to the u. K. For 3 weeks Training Exercise. As part of through and im packing for an assignment in britains of the fallen. Tree im going to take it easy. With the British Army Even more equally thrown in. What is that me. Thats the m o e stands for explosive methods of entry. The course deals with all the different ways that you could open up a target location and get into it. Like almost everyone in the squad and zorro are married and have children and your wife will look after the kids. Yeah as usual. People talk a lot about Work Life Balance but all we do is work its tough to find a balance. Of the fun. And these men usually share the most intense moments of their lives with their colleagues not with their families sometimes wives and children feel left out. First money you cant talk to them about a lot of the work you do hear from you have the right sometimes they wouldnt understand anyway. Its an entirely different world. Might rather talk about it with a colleague theyre sort of like a 2nd family because of course this can cause problems because your real family says that youre shutting them out. Of the. G. S. T. 9 members craig sample cant really stay at home to look after a sick child and the men enjoy their work some much that the commander sometimes has to order them to stop. I tell them to careful not to mess up their family life. And if your wifes having a baby stay home with a. Plug in extreme cases ive had many call up and ask whether they should come into. My job as a supervisor is easy i dont have to motivate my team the hard part is to slow them down and sometimes to protect them from themselves. This is monday. When. She worked as a key. Cheers to 9 for 13 years and retired a couple of years ago but she still stops by often to visit once a team member always a team member. My question is some of these guys are young enough to be our son this. Is the way i see it anyway are busy and that is i thought id have to tell them move those trying racks out of the courtyard we have to clean the floors now thats the time when the you also develop a certain level of trust so. The guys would leave their stuff lying around. And if youve been working on the same floor for years like me. Or you others. Guys learn to trust you. There are no women engineers to 9 operational units just a few workers desk clocks others are employed as cleaning. Me after lets put it like this another woman showed up on my floor and i said is that really necessary. Im the only woman on the floor that was that it would be strange. We wont allow it. That visually i wouldnt like it im the mother to these boys and thats all there is to it other women just dont belong here you know shes my answer. But that doesnt mean women couldnt do the job. Why not. To be one or 2 out there. Do you know the mission of course theyd have to meet the criteria. I think they might struggle with some of the physical demands. Do women really want to live among men i dont think so. Because of all the locker room talk. About the mists i personally wouldnt have a problem with having women as colleagues they havent even tried to join since ive been here about. Science i have a wife this is the so i dont mind being around the guys a lot. But what if the come a rather e among the team members turns into an exaggerated spree to call. There have been some alarming incidents in special units of both the German Armed Forces and the police. I know because i dont think that the presence of a team spirit or an elite attitude is the main problem at least not in the units that i know. The units that we supervise. Divya but these men have to trust each other and that often means that they try to sort things out among themselves who does one sometimes can go too far and we respond too late and as much right as we have to prevent that forward. For example the German Forces elite units special forces command or pay s. K. Failed to report several incidents of right wing extremism in its ranks. But the bundeswehr as elite units are not the only ones that have got into trouble. A raid on members of a right wing group in the northeastern german state of mecklenburg for commanding 2017 revealed that officers from an elite police unit had allegedly hoarded weapons and boxes of ammunition. The German Government is also concerned about possible right wing extremist tendencies in special ops units. This is not to lucian bazaar nor was of would you prefer go on of course allegations of such tendencies and the very government institutions that are supposed to protect the public are a definite cause for concern and disease should. If i were to see an extreme case for example someone wearing a swastika on his uniform something so clear id be very worried is an open question but were just a crosssection of society i assume that there are some of the supporters in g s g 9 as but i cant confirm that. Kind of little i see no serious trends in that direction and weve all sworn an oath to protect germanys liberal democratic system and we do that. Meanwhile the terrorist has ordered the materials for his biological bomb quite legally on the internet. Come on how you cant intervene because the actions at that stage im not in themselves against the law on the psycho to english god of this case is fairly recent and it shows that today such attacks are to be expected. It is often difficult for investigators to track down such perpetrators. If they do speed is of the essence. This situation has completely changed the way that she has to 9 carries out its counterterrorism operations. Were now aware of the possibility of a number of different terrorist attacks and areas. For example the bottom claw attack in paris and already 15. Response time was a decisive factor there. It could take too long for us to fly or drive from Santa Augustine in response to an incident in northern germany. Far in order to flee. Thats why g s g 9 is establishing a new base in berlin and is expanding the number of personnel about one 3rd. Reich now commander fox is on a reconnaissance flight. After another brandenburg gate. We found an optimal landing site. Where several others. Big cities have become targets but there have been attacks in berlin paris oslo russels thats why we need g s g 9 here. In. Our aim was to expand our presence in berlin and just sort it out at the expense of our base inside augustines that. We can only do that by bringing in new people. Otherwise id have to transfer personnel from our headquarters to prevent. The decision has been made to move part of the g. S. T. 9 to berlin but its taking time one reason is that its hard to find sites where the rigorous Training Program can be carried out so for the time being the men are being temporarily housed in the city and spend only a few weeks here. I assume well have our personnel permanently stationed in berlin or at the end of 20 or 20. Be reinforced by an exchange with people from salt augustine and well keep doing that. Story. Here commander fixes that the kindest talk to me the german parliaments Police Command theyre going to have a look at the Facility Security layout. Of this group this is the largest boldest talk Office Building 800 offices. Folks is particularly interested in the Service Entrance in the buildings. In this process we review the situation building by building although we cant analyze every possible detail. And the situation changes all the time. The main points for us are the location of the buildings in deployment options for our units and the buildings and Access Points we leave the rest to the specialists who work there every day to talk to this stuff. Its would. Love to have a look over there. This is the heart of parliament you can see the ministers down there. There they are. You know. This is a joint Training Exercise intel of the. G. S. T. 9 works with a number of Foreign Special ops units particularly israels counterterrorist team called to. Get the 2 organizations regularly Exchange Intelligence data and train together. What we saw in. You will see that there are also. Crimes in new york also. And organized. A 3rd in new york so we are more than happy to share of our world experience in this field with. Colleagues with. Brothers in arms. Right now the german israeli team is preparing to confront a group of terrorists who have taken over a kibbutz all just part of a normal days with. Before you treat. People with you know with good luck you know a lot about a little bit of a lot and thats. Why also after places all of us have no basis we dont want for months we will. Not. Keep the city that ill be here we have a look at what will probably with the blessing of the police all of them already be there. Its normal for us almost all the dreams we do in a civilian place is there people the civilians are recruited for their cause ok for the cause of this one because to find it in the end to keep them safe. Young mans mission is to do whatever it takes to stop terrorists. And. The israeli unit doesnt always collect as much evidence as g s g 9 does but overall the german and the israeli methods are so similar that they can Work Together easily. No one here seems to have a problem with germans in combat gear running around and israeli housing estate. Money. This ive never heard anyone say what are they doing here going on for that and it makes no difference whether im training in germany israel or somewhere else. Thats not his. Or dont think anyone here is wired to germans Walking Around with guns but if this is in all of today its a different or just a its normal for me to practice with you just you know a. Little. And after work the germans and israelis relax and get to know each other better. In the garden because that clean this is im talking about say thats my obviously my family but its i spend most of the time when im at home with my family. We all have fun im a. Know its a dangerous job and we know why we do it. But if i think we are fighting fair its probably the same the the same goals eventually maybe we do it that way and they do it this way but. The same goal. That loving man leaves the retired returns 00000 you well thats fine its nice isnt it was. Not that guy sweetheart. You know how much yes have a seat. In the years that malise worked here she and moxie saw each other more often than they did this spouses. Believe they. Can eat yes ive known him for 13 years. So how can i say he watched me grow up here. And that is such a vicious fall i can say is that hes like a son to me a condom i thought this is or so i love and that much. If i was having a tough time id ask her opinion and it was important to me that sometimes shed set me straight shed say young man life is not always fair when it comes to relationships you sometimes just have to deal with it but because its never been good. Mean is also worrying about the squad men this they never know exactly when their missions are going to be for real. Only for men have been killed in action injury history nines history one of them was real named to be escorted out he was shot by snipers in iraq in 2004 and he was in moxi squad because i felt it was incredibly difficult for me to deal with. He just wasnt there anymore he wasnt coming back and i was just terrible. So i had none of you worry about all the guys in the unit would sign kind to you know as a video for the media if i see on the news that g s g 9 is on a mission i keep a close eye on it thats just the way i am going and that monday might be and you find yourself thinking. That you might wonder could just one thing and i hope they all come back safe and. Therefore fast i wrote a letter and addressed it to my family and colleagues of the kind of arm. And in that letter lined what should happen if i were killed in the line of duty and incident occurred my little just wanted to put my affairs in order. They get their example i wanted to specify who would tell my wife what had happened to me out of one. Is really. I dont want to die i know vince and so thats something that i have to be prepared for. And i just put it all down on paper like a Shopping List of the same. Because i was trying to look at the situation without any emotion when i calls it isnt it as my as over the top and i sealed envelope and wrote on it who should be allowed to open the letter of this event of one of. Your good listener. They terrorists bomb is ready to go its now a race against time. Later report to the command post. Your voice for all this is where all g s g 9 operations are coordinated to. Be available intelligence and other information is collected and then distributed to the appropriate officer in this case to me the squad leader. Ive been instructed to intercept a suspect believed to be preparing to use Hazardous Materials to carry out an attack and im sure. The German Criminal Police has identified the terrorist and the interior ministry has called in g. S. T. And. Everyone will be in the tactical vehicle will follow this route and enter the underground car park. It was realized i have to make sure that we apprehend the suspect in a way that prevents him from destroying any evidence getting away or palming members of the unit and thats kind of the rest of my 1st priority is always the mission then protecting the matter of. The terrorist as apparently working with a highly potent toxin so the members of the unit are wearing protective suits. Suits tight and it gets hot and sticky inside. Theres no point worrying. If you know and stay alert and Pay Attention to details. Rely on your training and things will turn out fine. The 1st Christian Ministry of its a worst case for me right now would be for the suspect to shoot and wound one of my men it and the news contaminated with Hazardous Materials. I mean the everyone has to be prepared for that possibility existed sign but im not going to waste time worrying about it theyre all about in someone who must have been so long to strike team. Strike team here. Give me an update i thought it was. You know the teams in the car park now good. Move in lets go lets go something or youre out there that. Know what. All right how to. Carry. Her but. What about the border and. I think i have forgotten what it was a lot of the operation takes less than 30 seconds. We were inside. I dont casualties. That was amazingly fast yeah thats why i didnt say anything before and once we move in things can go quickly. But thats also when the tensions are greatest youre waiting for your men to tell you that the suspect has been apprehended and the building is clear. The water was going on you do not want to hear that somethings gone wrong and the nights when things are most tense there were medical. Taken out the suspects in custody. And. Just take off your handcuffs 1st and then. As i said this exercise was intended to simulate tactical deployment and arrest procedures you know overpowered so thats all for you today. A real terrorist wouldnt be this relaxed. At the very least i didnt have a chat. When they showed up it was all over the obvious then. Very good then weve achieved our goal. And the other Training Exercise successfully completed the perpetrator has been caught and we will never know the identities of the g. S. T. 9 members who took part in this is when i hear people talk about g s g 9 without knowing that i minutes on the surface and that is what you find myself saying to myself thats me thats what i do for a living they go through our cant deny that. They have on your office you will be a bit hypocritical to demand anonymity on the one hand and at the same time to go around bragging about my work and thats when its in your code my reward is a Successful Mission where we catch the perpetrators is a mission that i took part in and maybe even saved peoples lives and the mention the truth of. Well for one and all to. The 2 men who came into contact with that terrorist and his talks and still have to be chemically disinfected the other squad members can take the rest of the day off. G s g 9 may be able to fight terrorism better than any other organization in germany but theyll never be able to eliminate it is its only 9 cannot in itself make us safe if Security Services dont get wind of an attack and it takes place and im special ops unit can solve the problem. As a Free Democratic and Constitutional Society well just have to live with the fact that well never have 100 Percent Security im supposed to look at individual terrorist campaigns to come to an end to terrorism has been used throughout history and especially in modern times. We can defeat terrorist groups and individuals but terrorism strategic use of violence will not go away. Choosing that person wisely. They could have an effect on your entire career. What should people starting a new profession look out for. Which mistakes and pitfalls should they oh boy. My 1st day at a new job tips for a path to success. Made enjoy. 30 minutes on the w. Into the conflict zone to sebastien. 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