By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Khorramabad, a city of 328,000 in Western Iran, was the site of an assassination yesterday.
A high level army officer was shot and killed, his assistant was injured in the attack. The attackers, on a motorcycle, shot and then drove off.
Motorcycles are extremely useful tools of assassins. Cycles allow for fast escape and mobility and the assassins wear helmets with sun shields which mask their faces.
Motorcycles as a method of attack are not only extremely effective, the technique requires very little practice to perfect. Attackers can easily ditch the motorbike several blocks away, split up and escape using other prearranged vehicles.
In a professional hit the shooters are almost immediately whisked out of the country. They are through security and on a departing plane waiting in the airport within hours of the hit.
These attacks in Iran are most probably carried out by locals who go to safe houses or even resume their normal lives afterward the attacks.
To make this effective as an internal operation, the players must know only about the task they perpetrate. The group must be very small and secretive.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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