#Dutch A Word a Word

• Author: Frank Westerman
  
• Title: A Word a Word ( Een Woord een Woord)
  
• Genre: Non-fiction  (284 pg)
• Language: Dutch
• #20BooksOfSummer24

Conclusion:

Frank Westerman wants to answer the question:
…is it better to end terrorism with weapons or with words.
The author takes the reader through many examples of terroism
during the 20th C and how these “situations” ended.

The “Dutch Approach” relies on a non-violent psychological action plan

instead of “Shoot first ask questions later” that was used
during the Moscow theater hostage crisis on 23 October 2002
resulting in the taking of 912 hostages.

One example in the book was the Dutch Train Hijacking on 23 May 1977.

I had just come to live in The Netherlands and I remember vivdly what
happened (…just 42 miles from where I lived) during those 2 weeks.
Now Frank Westerman revealed what was happening
behind the scenes in a underground bunker where negotiators
were talking to the terrorists…and what the elite armed forces were preparing to do.

It ended violently with Navy Seals, F-16 fighter jets and
Marines Special Forces storming the train.
It was all over in 11 minutes.

Notes:

1. F-16 fighter jets made several  dives at 450 miles per hour + after burners
2. just above the electrical lines above the train. (…see photo above)
   
3. They wanted to shock the terrorists with “bombs of sound”.
4. I live near a military airbase…and I KNOW how much noise these aircraft can produce.
5. The sound in that train would have made people just collapse on the floor!