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Israeli Officers Given Tips to Avoid Reaping What They Sow
JERUSALEM, Nov. 29 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - "Watch where you hang your uniform," "don't accept any package," are among the many items on a list distributed to Israeli army officers to avoid being killed, news agencies reported.
Senior Israeli army officers have been warned not to hang out their laundered uniforms to air at their homes to avoid being targets for assassination, the
Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.
The Israeli daily newspaper, Ha'aretz, said the warnings were included in a pamphlet published by the Israeli army with special instructions to senior officers with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and higher on how to protect themselves from assassination attempts, reported the army's weekly publication,
Bamahane.
In the pamphlet, senior officers are instructed to break their routines to make it harder to gather intelligence on them.
They are requested, for example, to change the time they leave and return home, to avoid accepting packages of any sort, to not employ foreign workers, to examine their mail, to install alarm systems in their homes, to avoid carrying out civilian tasks in uniform, such as shopping, and to avoid hanging their uniforms outdoors to dry.
Bamahane also reported that regular service soldiers would soon be posted as security guards for the army's major generals.
At present, major generals are guarded by reservist soldiers, veterans of the Shin Bet (Israeli internal intelligence) VIP bodyguard unit. The first bodyguard course, made up of outstanding soldiers from commando units, will end next week, and they will replace the reservists.
"We understand that officers are a target for attacks", the head of the Operations Directorate, Lieutenant Colonel Ofer Tal-Shahar, told the
Jerusalem Post.
In July, former army and security officials were also warned by the Israeli foreign ministry to avoid countries where they could find themselves in "embarrassing" situations, according to the Israeli public radio.
The warning came as Israel embarked on studying criminal laws across Europe to see which nations are most likely to launch human rights trials against their nationals, reported Agence France Presse (AFP).
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