Terror International - BBC DVD
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£190.00
Recommended retail price: £195.00
Stock type: -
Stock reference: 54.032
In 1976 an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris left Athens airport after a stopover. Minutes after take-off, four heavily armed terrorists took control of the plane. Two were Palestinian, two were German Marxist revolutionaries in a deadly ideological alliance. They represented the internationalisation of terror. They redirected the plane to Colonel Muammar Gadaffi''s Libya, where it was refuelled before flying on to Idi Amin''s Uganda. At Entebbe airport the hostages were held by the four terrorists and more Palestinians, supported by the Ugandan army.
The terrorists demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Non-Israeli hostages were released and the terrorists set a deadline: ''accept our demands or we start killing the remaining hostages''. The Israeli government had to decide between a negotiated settlement and a military intervention. The explicit threat to hostages forced their choice. They sent in a commando team on an audacious and risky raid. The daring assault succeeded brilliantly; the terrorists were killed, as were a large number of Ugandan troops. Three hostages and just one Israeli soldier died. One hundred hostages were returned to Israel unscathed.
This was the perfect storm of 70s terror. After Entebbe, the international terror network was crippled and Israel set the model of Western responses to terror, no capitulation to demands and the real prospect of a military response. It is a model which is still being applied every day in the West Bank and Gaza.
Age of Terror: Episode 1
Duration 50 minutes.
Certificate UC
Released 2008
Contents - 1 x DVD
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