title: The Citizen's Guide To Stopping Suicide Attackers: Secrets of an Israeli Counterterrorist
author:  Itay Gil 
description: Itay Gil spent his compulsory military service in Israel's paratrooper reconnaissance company, serving in the 1982 Lebanon War. He then joined the elite counterterrorist unit Yamam and took part in hundreds of hostage-rescue and interdiction missions. He later became Yamam's chief close-quarter combat instructor. Gil continues to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reserves as senior combat instructor for the undercover counterterrorism unit 217 (Sayeret Duvdevan). In 2002, he formed a special security team for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The founder and chief executive officer of Protect, a Jerusalem-based security training firm, his methods for dealing with suicide bombers have been documented on CNN, Fox and Israeli media
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  > > > > > > > > RUNNING BLIND
  
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   _For my sisters-in-law, Leslie and Sally,_  
   _two women of rare charm and quality_
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
   **Suicide bombers are** easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale
  signs. Mostly because they’re nervous. By definition they’re all first-timers.
  
  Israeli counterintelligence wrote the defensive playbook. They told us what to
  look for. They used pragmatic observation and psychological insight and came
  up with a list of behavioral indicators. I learned the list from an Israeli
  army