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terrorist is preparing an attack there were terrorists don't just aim to kill a lot of people but also to attract a big audience. the threat to germany has changed in recent years. tell or just put to the day terrorism is all about small operations with little logistical effort. of course islam is terrorism remains a dangers but there is also the growing threat of terrorism. they intervene when no one else can help g.s.t. 9 gemini's police unit. i would like people to be less afraid because they

know that we're here. right now and. does g.s.t. and i make gemini say we'll follow these men on their daily routine you know kind of machine they're not machines they have feelings. 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 germany's federal police the border protection group g s g

9. more around the world instead of them i was hired here at the braves i've seen the chance change 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 that's cool. meanwhile the commander arrives at the side gate. for me this is how the day usually start and it's a pleasant retain a minimal i'll talk. 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. 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 it's the nature of their mission and that's why d.s.t. 9 insisted on prior approval of all the videos shown in this report. will take the case comes with an open stop coming please. except for the commander we cannot reveal the identities of any other g s g 9 members. to. getting a real insight into what we do here the way beyond how we live. but i think that everyone will understand why we can't show our faces from kind of our. face am roll call for the 3rd squad. point. we can't 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 they'll be using apprentice 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 yet months someone to. go. killing has just an alias the men of t.s.t. 9 all have nicknames. you know. people get a nickname during training. might be linked to something that's happened to them or to their real name. and they'll 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 called. commanders at home folks is also taking part in the exercise he's been the head of g.s. 29 for 5 years he spends most of his time in meetings but today he's 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 we'll 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 so-called 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 he'd seen fall ill attack in which russell as you should have a devastating effect. on we're not talking about the deaths of several people but just pushing vengeful it would be much more seriously that bush knew from guns on the on scene or you move us inside london was an operation we've long known from intelligence reports that terrorist groups are trying to carry out attacks with nuclear biological and chemical weapons i'm still can tell and we know from the rice in case that it can be

a fairly simple operation and for has. 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 the middle do you skip many of these substances including nitrogen and other fertilisers are used as part of completely illegal activities. so the authorities can't ban them outright but our job is to find out whether these materials are going to be. used illegally. planned. germany's 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 dealt with terrorists who try to organize attacks that would kill as many people as possible. those attacks also involved elaborate planning. but then they switched 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 berlin when a nice henri plowed a stolen truck into the christmas market there killing 12 people. although the so-called islamic state has been defeated militarily almost $300.00 islamists in germany alone and police believe that they could attack at any time let's. move. live all that i ask and try to do now is to hurt us in our own countries that

includes small individual attacks and individual murders 12 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 synagogue attack in the murder of cousin. a few months. liam dislike of problems of right wing extremism and terrorism have been ignored for a long time. doesn't really learn nothing from the end as you scan. just a minute. in fact i believe that we're seeing just the tip of the iceberg. we don't 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 gunmen have dug in at an industrial park and are shooting at innocent civilians it's just a training exercise but the tension is still real the squad doesn't know the terrain they're under extreme time pressure and they know that the assailants will stop at nothing the middle of this year my men have no idea what they're getting into they face a lot of risks in similar situations. things are tense. in training missions we do things that you can prepare for. you create conditions that put the squad under simulated pressure. there's a lot of psychological stress. these men can dive dropping by parachute or of help from a helicopter in seconds well 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. you know we do a lot of training and shooting a few so we can avoid the latter possible and real wattleton with our. g.i.'s denied 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 almost finished you can't easily learn the skills necessary for this job for you've got to have a high level of social competence the psychological strength to deal with stress. and above all the ability to work very well and the team has a good intimidation on that so our by you can kind of. i don't want to be rambo. we have to be cautious we can't just rush in and blow everything up this from this is

that no one's going to open fire unless they're 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. just to 9 functions like a well coached sports team they work out a 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 deponents you have to be aware of what's out there especially when you're being shot at. but if we weren't afraid we'd be the wrong people for the job. but wishes 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 can we 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 passed the entrance exam for g s g 9. he's been on 50 missions including operations in ramadi iraq. for months i think when i probably could have been a firefighter or another medic flipping me down or mentioned so i haven't i just enjoy helping people remind us often i can do that with these units at a very high level and that's very satisfying or. it was a nice job really means a lot to me as a baby daughter doesn't feel. yet a terrorist is scouting locations he wants to kill as many people as possible and

he wants to attract attention to. those mistimed while terrorism is an act of violence the border its main aim is to use symbolic highly visible dramatic acts of violence to spread fear among the public well it's all done for effect it's a communication strategy that sends a message to a target audience and superglue it on or it's designed to affect people using public space or public transport go to work in. the terrorist wants to launch his rice attack in berlin because of the city symbolic importance as germany's capital. in the world who are in parliament and cities like berlin that are hometown. nation's parliament and many other institutions of places with lots going on are attractive vault guns

institutes who want to hear what exactly that makes them a prime target for terrorists offer to talk to if i'm to tell him hasn't had a counterterrorism unit up to now and that's something we're having to change you know. in the corridor was of g.s.t. and 9 squads 3 no one suspects that an attack is imminent so you've been practicing in secret all this time. alone. every member of g.s.t. 9 has his own bunk in the steam barracks although most live with their families nearby only a few actually sleep here. it's miles of homemade curry the men spend more time in the barracks than anywhere else. how many barracks. in the ocean for probably 5. to morrow zorro's going to the

u.k. for 3 weeks training exercise. is part of go through and i'm packing for an assignment in britain to tell you. the truth i'm going to take it easy. with the british army in more equal time in. hospitals what is that me. that's 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 their wife will look after the kids. yeah as usual. they're good people

talk a lot about work life balance but all we do is work it's tough to find a balance. to move on. 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 can't talk to them about a lot of the work you do hear from you have to sometimes they wouldn't understand anyway. it's an entirely different world. might rather talk about it with a colleague they're sort of like a 2nd family because you have material of course this can cause problems because your real family says that you're shutting them out that's. the way. that you do yes do you know i meant this craig sample can't really stay at home to look after a sick child and the men enjoy their work so much that the commander sometimes has

to order them to stop but. i tell them to be careful not to mess up their family life. and if your wife's having a baby and stay home with her. like in extreme cases i've had many call up and ask whether they should come into work. my job as a supervisor is easy i don't have to motivate my team the hard part is to slow them down and sometimes to protect them from themselves. i mean. this is. the way. she worked as a kid. cheers jeanne 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. of my danged question is some of these guys are young enough to be

our sons or to have the way i see it anyway are busy and that is i thought i'd have to tell them move those trying racks out of the courtyard we have to clean the floors now that's the time when i you also develop a certain level of trust. the guys would leave their stuff lying around. and if you've been working on the same floor for years like me. or you others. was a guy started to trust us. there are no women in 2 years to 9 operational units just a few workers desk clarks others are employed as cleaners. let's put it like this another woman showed up on my floor and i said is that really necessary. i'm the only woman on the floor that was

that's what it would be strange. as we won't allow it. to visually i wouldn't like it i'm the mother to these boys and that's all there is to it other women just don't belong here you know she's my answer. but that doesn't mean women couldn't do the job. why not they're sure to be one or 2 out there. do you know the mission of course they'd have to meet the criteria couldn't. i think that they might struggle with some of the physical demands the in man. do women really want to live among men i don't think so. because. i work is a mystery i personally wouldn't have a problem with having women as colleagues and so they haven't even tried to join since i being about. to have

a wife of. mine being around the guys around. but what if the coming rather re among the team members turns into an exaggerated plea to call. there have been some alarming incidents in special units of both the german forces and the police. that's what i know because i don't 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. and give your but these men have to trust each other and that often means that they try to sort things out among themselves who does money sometimes that can go too far and we respond too late and as much much as we have to prevent that forward. for example the german armed forces elite unit special forces command or k 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 proper manning 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. doesn't go to lucian bazaar nor was of do before you 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 the 0 should. if i were to see an extreme case for example someone wearing a swastika on his uniform something so clear i'd be very worried is an open

question but we're just a cross-section of society assume that there are some of these supporters in g s g 9 as me but i can't confirm that. the kind it's all i see no serious trends in that direction and we've all sworn an oath to protect germany's liberal democratic system and we do that with the. meanwhile the terrorist has ordered the materials for his biological quite legally on the internet. where someone who. can't intervene because the actions at that stage i'm not in themselves against the law on a psycho to alicia 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 believe is of the essence. this situation has completely changed the way that she has to 9 carries out its counterterrorism operations. we're now aware of the possibility of a number of different terrorist attacks and areas. but our claw for example the butter plant attack in paris and already 15. response time was a decisive factor the. form it could take too long for us to fly or drive from santa augustine in response to an incident in northern germany so far in order to flee. that's why i g s g 9 is

establishing a new base in berlin and is expanding the number of personnel bad about one 3rd. reich now commander fox is on a reconnaissance flight. after another brandenburg gate. we found an optimal landing site. and there are several others. seeing big cities have become targets but there have been attacks in berlin oslo russel's that's why we need g s g 9 here. in berlin not our aim was to expand our presence and berlin just started out at the expense of our base inside augustine. we can only do that by bringing in new people.

otherwise i'd have to transfer personnel from our headquarters to provide for. the decision has been made to move part of the g.s.t. 92000000000 but it's taking time one reason is that it's 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. and i assume we'll have our personnel permanently stationed in berlin by the end of 20 or 20 and. also be reinforced by an exchange with people from song talk esteem and we'll keep doing that. story. here commander fixes at the bundestag to meet the german parliament's police command they're going to have a look at the facilities security layout. of this group who will this is the

largest buddhist talk office building 800 offices. folks is particularly interested in the service entrance in the buildings and. in this process we review the situation building by building although we can't analyze every possible detail. and the situation changes. all the time. the main points for us are the location of the buildings was in deployment options for our units and the buildings and access points and we leave the rest to the specialists who work there every day so this will be talked at the start. it's good if you really love to have a look over there it's. not parliament house this is the heart of parliament you can see the ministers down there you see it there they are.

this is a joint training exercise intel of the. past the. g.'s g 9 works with a number of foreign special ops units particularly israel's counterterrorist team cool to. get that ritual denies ations regularly exchange intelligence data and trying to get at. what we saw in the late 3 wheels there are also this crimes you also only. organized. 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. the phones and trade. with people with you know with good luck you know a lot about a little bit more watch and it's. also up to places. you know it's we do it once a month we go to some. really. good mood. where we look at what the work of the with the with the police all of them all but even there. it's 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 do you find it in the end to keep them safe.

the young man's mission is to do whatever it takes to stop terrorists. while. the israeli unit doesn't 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 any israeli housing estate that money at least this i've never heard anyone say what are they doing here going on for that as it is and it makes no difference whether i'm training in germany israel or somewhere else. that's not is a very interesting my hope it's that or i don't think anyone here is wired to bob jonathan's walking around with guns but if this is in all of the data different there are just it's normal for me to practice with you just you know a. little. and after work that. germans and israelis relax and get to know each other better. in the garden because that clean

this is i'm talking about say that's my my my family but it's i spend most of the time when i'm at home with my family. we all have fun. no it's a dangerous job and we know why we do it. but if i think we're fighting fair it's probably the same the the same goals eventually maybe we do it there where they do it this way but to the same goal. that having manley's the retired returns. the who are you well that's fine it's nice it was.

nice retired. how would you have a seat. in the years that malise worked here she and mark see so each other more often than they did this spouses. kenny yes i've known him for 13 years. and i say he watched me grow up. and that is such a vicious i can say is that he's like a son to me a condom and so time is ever so i love him that much. if i was having a tough time and asked her opinion and it was important to me that sometimes she'd set me straight she'd say young man life is not always fair when it comes to relationships you sometimes just have to deal with it as. it's because it's not

even good. team is also worrying about the squad member this they never know exactly when their missions are going to be for real. only 4 men have been killed in action injury history nine's history one of them was real named to b.s. that. 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 wasn't there anymore he wasn't coming back and. it was just terrible. to have one of you worry about all the guys in the unit would sign kind 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 that's just the way i am going and that monday might be don't you

find yourself thinking. that you might wonder could. i hope they all come back safe and. fast i wrote a letter and addressed it to my family and colleagues. of the kind of arm. and in that letter right outlined what should happen if i were killed in the line of duty and it isn't a code just wanted to put my affairs in order. then that they get their example i wanted to specify who would tell my wife what had happened to me. if i don't want to die i know vince and so that's something that i have to be prepared for. and i just put it all down on paper like a shopping list of the city. because trying to look at the situation without any emotion in the ankles listed it as my own and i still damn well open wrote on it

who should be allowed to open the letter office. you're a good listener. the terrorist bomb is ready to go it's now a race against time. later report to the command post. 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. i've been instructed to intercept a suspect believed to be preparing to use hazardous materials to carry out an

attack and shots of. the german criminal police has identified the terrorist and the interior ministry has called in t.s.t. and. everyone will be in the tactical vehicle will follow this route and enter the underground car park. was i have to make sure that we apprehend the suspect in a way that prevents him from. destroying any evidence getting away or harming members of the unit that's going to save the rest of my 1st priority is always the mission then protecting the mad arms of. the terrorist is apparently working with a highly potent talks and so the members of the unit are wearing protective suits.

this suits air tight and it gets hot and sticky inside. there's no point worrying. if you know what stay alert pay attention to details. rely on your training and things will turn out fine. the 1st christmas really it's the worst case for me right now would be for the suspect to shoot and wound one of my men and larger non-news contaminated with hazardous materials. quantum in the everyone has to be prepared for that possibility if it's on but i'm not going to waste time worrying about it over to someone who was there when i did so long teachers strike team. strike team here.

forgive me update i thought i was. in there but the teams in the car park now. good. for movin let's go let's go or something. roger that i don't. know what. the writers. are carried out. but if there were. one of their border. left i got an i phone but

at. the operation takes less than 30 seconds. we were inside. the casualties. that was amazingly fast yeah that's why i didn't say anything before a woman wants me movin things can go quickly. but that's also when the tensions are greatest you're waiting for your men to tell you that the suspect has been apprehended and the building is clear he was on as local as the other one was going on you do not want to hear that something's gone wrong there's no it's been things a most tense they were going to close and. take over now the suspects in custody. just take off your handcuffs it was done 1st and then. as i said this exercise was intended to simulate tactical deployment and the rest procedures you know

overpowered so that's all for you today. a real terrorist wouldn't be this relaxed . the very lovely i didn't have a chat. when they showed up it was all over the obvious then. they're good and then we've 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 from it was understood when i hear people talk about g s g 9 without knowing that i mean it's on the surface and that is what i find myself saying to myself that's me that's what i do for a living. i can't deny that. therefore in your office he 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 so you have got my reward is

a successful mission where we catch the perpetrators is a mission that i took part in and maybe even save to people's lives. the truths of war and. welfare are on it 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 they'll never be able to eliminate it is it and 9 cannot in itself make us safer if security services don't get wind of an attack and it takes place and i'm special ops unit can solve the problem at that moment. as a free democratic and constitutional society. well just have to live with the fact

that we'll never have 100 percent security i'm sick of individual terrorist campaigns to come to an end but terrorism has been used throughout history and especially in modern times and we can defeat terrorist groups and individuals but terrorism strategic use of violence will not go away. a defector from eastern germany was caught and arrested. for carrying border guard did his. duty. 30 years later the to meet again. defector and the border

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