How to survive a suicide attack in Pakistan?

[Leo05]

extremely useful post.thnx mate!

[Darth Vader]

Good post. However,

- Do not, and I repeat, DO NOT grab a suicide bomber by his legs from behind to make him raise his hands if they're wearing the explosives on their body. Look before you leap. It might work if they have a suitcase. The triggering mechanism used in the explosive vests of TTP are infact triggered when the bomber raises their hands (so don't say "hands up!" with a pointed gun either unless you have a microphone and are 400 feet away with the bomber stopped in an isolated place). If you're unarmed, agile and actually so heroic, your best bet is to hug the bomber with both their hands inside the tightest embrace of your life -- do not let him raise his hands. But look before you leap, there might be a second trigger and the bomber will try to reach for it. The bomber will also be probably armed with a pistol. But rest assured that if the bomb goes off, you won't feel a thing and there's no better, painless or heroic way. To top everything off, you'll gain martyrdom and live forever.

If you're a security personnel (and carry a gun) the sure-shot method is to aim for their spine right in the center and behind their necks. If you have a small caliber handgun or bad aim the second best is to shoot them in the head. But someone shot in the head, unlike in movies, does not guarantee that they will then drop dead or stop in their tracks, they might not be neutralized (enough) and might trigger the explosives, even if there is a low possibility for that. Rarely, when a combatant receives a proper gunshot wound in the head, they are still able to take a few more steps before they collapse, for instance, probably because their brain has already transmitted the next signal downwards through the spinal cord. Therefore, severing the spinal cord is the best albeit more difficult method.

- If you have to secure a mosque against a suicide bomber, for example, use those walk-through type metal detector machines in conjunction with severely restricting a length of their approach path with portable barricades or walls to it so they both have to slow down and so they can't bye-pass the detector in the only path ahead.

- The best weapon against such attacks is intelligence gathering through scouting around the area and early warning. This can be perfectly used in conjunction with a well located marksman guard or a "sniper" who should be able to take out the bomber from afar after confirmation of the danger. In such a situation, the best thing to do is have the lie down on their stomachs and not move until bomb disposal or a counter insurgency team arrives. This is unlikely to happen though, because they're brain washed fanatics and if they take one step or hesitate for more than a few seconds, they should be shot for best results.

- Static defense posts, at entry points of the secured perimeter, should be well armored with sand bags. This is the place to set up your automatic or heavier weapons equipped squad members for suppressive fire. When these people are determined, as we know, they don't only wear suicide vests but also they come armed with small arms and hand grenades too, in order to create a gap in your defences so they can reach the targets inside.

[Kursed]

Adding your points to the first post.

[Digital Jedi]

- If you have to secure a mosque against a suicide bomber, for example, use those walk-through type metal detector machines in conjunction with severely restricting a length of their approach path with portable barricades or walls to it so they both have to slow down and so they can't bye-pass the detector in the only path ahead.

Another problem while entering the mosques and other public places are the queues behind the metal detectors and personnel searching the people, if the bomber blasts himself here, there still might be as many victims as there might be if he manages to go inside.
So a solution has to be found. In very large places, I suggest there should be multiple search points to minimize the lengths of the queues.

I have another solution, though it may or may not work, it's just the idea of my mind:
block the road with barriers like this:

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| . | . | . | . | .Search point and Enterence
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Dots means people standing, | are barriers, and ----- are the edges of the roads.

Now if a queue should be made here with 2-3 or maximum 5 people waiting behind each barrier, and going to the search point one by one. Use barriers made of a simple brick wall with sandbags on both sides, which is pretty cheap, and I think making 20-25 of them would cost less than Rs. 100000.
This way, on a road leading to, say, a mosque, you can have like 60-100 people waiting in a queue, and if the place is large and a lot of people come, make multiple queues like this, what this will do is:
If a blast happens, since there are only 3-5 people behind a barrier, there would me a small number of victims.
And the sandbags would minimize the casualties and injuries to the people behind other barriers.
And it would be a longer waiting queue, and people standing against each barrier can monitor the activities of 3-5 people waiting behind each barrier and try picking out someone acting suspicious.
And this might work best if no vehicle is allowed in the area.
I again say it just came in my mind, and it might not work, but right now, I do not see a reason for this idea not to be ineffective in minimizing the victims.