The FlyDubai attempted hijacking shows the U.S.and its allies are still using outdated counterterrorism assumptions against increasingly sophisticated enemies, a U.S.
rescue expert and 9/11 first responder warns."They’re good at chess," Bryan Stern, chairman and CEO of Grey Bull Rescue, told Fox News Digital on Monday, saying the radical ideology behind the FlyDubai attack is a ringing "bell" for global aviation security and Western counterterrorism strategy."And we’re, if we’re lucky, playing checkers – if we’re lucky – and I would argue we’re not even playing checkers that well."TERROR CELLS INSIDE FOREIGN AIRLINES 'CERTAINLY A POSSIBILITY,' RETIRED PILOT WARNSGrey Bull Rescue's Bryan Stern speaks to Fox News Digital about the world guarded against the next 9/11 terrorist attack.(Fox News Digital)Stern, whose global nonprofit conducts evacuations from war zones and hostage situations, said the thwarted FlyDubai attack by "an angry, radicalized, Sunni bad guy" is showing just how far behind our enemies we are in this post-9/11 world."They understand us significantly more than we understand them," Stern, who has been "hunting the bad guys" for 30 years, said.
Stern said the U.S.has to understand the "asymmetric warfare" as well as the increasingly sophisticated enemy does."The reason why a football coach watches game tapes is not to watch his own team play, it's to watch the bad guys play," he said.
"We gotta start watching some game tapes."AMERICA BUILT A FORTRESS AFTER 9/11.THEN THE THREAT STARTED HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHTCaptain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot who was attacked on a FlyDubai plane heading to Israel last week, has been hailed globally as a hero.
(Israel Foreign Ministry)Stern is intimately in tune with the playbook on the ground in war zones, including the Middle East and Iran."We conduct these operations in these places still to this very day," he said."We're actually on the ground, meaning I know people in Hezbollah, I know people...