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make sure that doesn't happen." He turned to Al and said, "If you want to
try some body armor on, it's up to you, mate.
You can wear it or not. Make sure the U.D.R boy's got so much body
armor on the fucker can only just about get in the car!"
Al said, "I'll try it on and see what it looks like. If it looks shit,
I'll take it off."
"I want you with comms, and I want you to give us a running commentary
as you're going along the road.
You can hear what we're doing, so if we say to get out of the way, just
fuck off out of it and we'll take over. If the van comes up in front of you,
act on it. just ram the fucker," and we'll be straight in and climbing
aboard them."
That was it; there wasn't much else to say. "There'll be no move before
two o'clock."
This was where, as much as the training and the skills that we'd
learned, the relationships between people came into the equation: Al had to
have total and utter trust in the people who were covering him.
He also had to make sure the U.D.R man was calm and feeling secure
because he might have to control him if the shit hit the fan. Al's job was
twice as hard as ours; not only would he have to react to the incident, but
he'd also have to get to grips with the man he was protecting.
During all the planning and preparation, the head shed and the troop
worked out together the way we could best protect, these two. We worked
through our "actions on" for all the possibilities-whether they were going
to come and ram the car or come up behind it, overtake, and then start
shooting at him as they drove past and got in front of him; whether they
were going to force his vehicle to stop and then shoot him or wait until he
got out of his house and into the car, or vice versa.
Ken said to Al, "When you come out of the house, we'll have you
covered, so don't worry about that. Let him ' do the normal checks that he
does under the vehicle, get in, and away you go."
"No drama."
We all knew that the highest risk times of any hit were (a) when coming
out of the house, (b) driving to and from work, and (c) coming out of the
place of work.
Terrorists studied routines. There was nearly always a time frame, say,
between eight or eight-thirty, when the target would go out, kiss his wife
and kids good-bye, get in the car, and go; people always drov set routes if
they were unaware. At the other end of the day they'd always leave work at
the same time. A professional terrorist would always go for the most
predictable timings.
That's when kidnappers, struck, too.
Al tried on some of the different body armors, but he just didn't look
right. He decided to bin it. It was a personal choice. Had he wanted to look
like the Michelin man, that would have been his prerogative; he was the boy
who was going to get shot at.
At two o'clock we were ready to go. All the weapons were loaded and in
the cars. I took an HK53, the 5.56
assault rifle. Most people were taking 9MM MP5s or 5.56 to give a
combination of concealment in the car and a good amount of firepower.