{"id":2886,"date":"2006-07-26T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T04:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/26\/bringing-it-all-back-home\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T21:40:50","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T04:40:50","slug":"bringing-it-all-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/26\/bringing-it-all-back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing It All Back Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5196017\">Interesting developments in the town where I was born<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the fighting continues overseas, some lessons from the Middle East conflict are hitting home right here in Alabama. Members of the Montgomery Police Department SWAT team are in a five day counterterrorism school taught by a former Israeli servicemember.<\/p>\n<p>Out at the practice range, the 12 member team learns that timing is everything. SWAT team member Todd Wheeler notes, &#8220;The way the Israelis do it, it&#8217;s extremely dynamic. It&#8217;s extremely fast and that&#8217;s the only way to fight counterterrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s also why the Montgomery SWAT team is training with Aaron Cohen. He&#8217;s a veteran of the Israeli counterterrorist unit. Now his four year stint with that team will work for this team. Cohen says he wants, &#8220;to be able to help them reduce risk while responding to terrorist threats while in crowded areas.&#8221; Cohen says these drills and the current situation in the Middle East are a powerful combination for him. He explains,&#8221;It&#8217;s tough. It hits home for me because my unit is working there right now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,20867,19915049-2703,00.html\">this<\/a> perhaps? Yep, residents of Montgomery can expect some mighty &#8220;dynamic&#8221; drug busts from now on.<\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting developments in the town where I was born: As the fighting continues overseas, some lessons from the Middle East conflict are hitting home right here in Alabama. Members of the Montgomery Police Department SWAT team are in a five day counterterrorism school taught by a former Israeli servicemember. Out at the practice range, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}