How do you know who your friends are?

Kia Ora,

Much has been made here in recent days about how the MP Russell Norman should of being known by the Chinese protection team as a Member of Parliament.

Only problem with that is the history of Close Protection shows that those who are friends or are supposed to be there, are most likely to be the assassins or these days suicide bombers.

That is why you are, in that side of the profession, supposed to profile your clients before hand.

But any form of security really requires some form of assessment of likely threats.



Though most would not expect as happened in the above clip where two groups assigned to protect the area of a foreign embassy after a suicide bomb attack, ended up in a firefight (gun battle) with each other.

That is most but the local security (our local mate was extremely good at this) would of picked possible problems.

You could see bodies lying about the place & it took an extremely brave person from memory to step in the middle of the two groups to stop the firing.

But it was seen as a common after a while when ever these two groups or the military & police were co-located to provide the outer cordon security in Iraq.



As Kevin Rudd found out today even his most 'loyal' Lieutenant can be ready to at a less extreme level 'stab' him in the back.

Whilst our own Prime Minister seems to have taken a leaf out of the Arab book & brought those seen to be as his likely closest enemies in closest(hold your friends close & your enemies even closer).

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