A Perfect Example of Condition White.

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A video appearing on the video-sharing Web site Youtube yesterday contains first-hand footage of a Palestinian female terrorist stabbing a civilian security guard at a West Bank checkpoint.


In the video, filmed on October 25, the Palestinian, who allegedly asked to enter Israel via the Kalandiya checkpoint for medical treatment, is seen being examined by a Border Police officer.

The officer finds a knife in her purse, and while he takes the purse aside, the woman pulls another blade from her trousers and stabs the civilian security guard standing by.

The security guard, working for a private firm, was still recuperating from his moderate wounds yesterday.

The video seems to not be direct footage, but footage of a closed-circuit TV surveillance camera’s output. The date “10/25/2009″ appears faintly at the bottom of the screen early in the clip.

An investigation was launched to find the source that leaked the video to Youtube.

The basic Color Code as invented and described by Jeff Cooper is as follows:

White: An unacceptable level of inattention to ones surrounding. The individual is completely oblivious to any occurrence or more specifically any THREAT in their immediate area that may affect them. This is the type of person who gets hit by a train while walking on a set of tracks and texting on their cell phone.

Yellow: An normal and acceptable level of attention and scrutiny of ones surrounding including people, objects and occurrences. This level of attention should be the norm for everyone wishing to be ready to avoid or deal with trouble.

Orange: A HEIGHTENED level of scrutiny, alarm and recognition of an actual threat: directed at people, objects or occurrences in the area.

Red: Action against the threat.


Watch the video below and see if you can identify where it all went wrong.



Note that NONE of the security personnel are paying attention to the woman after the initial purse search and discovery of A WEAPON! In fact... one of them turns his back completely and is looking into the adjacent room. His "back up" is busy studying the details of what appears to be a cheap Bic ballpoint pen.

If the article is correct and a knife was found on her person, she should have been either placed face against the wall... or face on the floor. Not standing with her hands in her pockets, fondling a second weapon.

Note the inattentiveness of ALL of the security officers. Are they waiting for direction from a supervisor? Are they watching some other activity in the adjacent room? The officer on the left is staring at a device in his hand... and takes absolutely no notice of the attack until it's too late.

This is the type of behavior I would expect from guards at a shopping mall in middle-America. NOT security personnel (private or otherwise) at a checkpoint in a nation where terrorist attacks are a daily occurrence.

If I were in a position of any authority I think that I would at the very least INSIST on additional (adequate) training for these officers. I would more likely dismiss this particular security company's contract immediately. I would do it for the sake of their own staff.