During a counter terrorism training program I attended in Israel in 2006, a quote of the Israel’s when talking about the difference in their strategy as compared to that of America “You look for the bomb…we look for the bomber” struck me like a ton of bricks. As I pondered this statement it became very clear that our efforts in fighting terrorist activity and even extending to criminal activity is that we look for objects rather than for behaviors.

About The Author: Charles "Sid" Heal is a retired Commander from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department where he spent more than half of his career assigned in units charged with handling law enforcement special and emergency operations.

COL GI Wilson USMC (ret) was kind enough to send me a link to an interesting reasearch article titled: The Eyes Don’t Have It: Lie Detection and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It's great information...I have seen some similar info last year on NLP questioning its validity.

Frank Borelli posted what I think is an important article over at www.officer.com titled

COL John Boyd explained; a person in a conflict must observe the environment, to in

I good friend of mine Marc Spigel, daughter Lauren  has a great blog post on Nicaraguan Body Language titled “Say What? Nica Gestures” Lauren is in Nicaragua with he Peace Corps and had to learn these gestures on the fly.  I thought I would share to illustrate the cultural differences of body language. She does a very nice job  explaining and demonstrating several of them in her post.

“Truthful people convey, while liars attempt to convince.” ~Janine Driver