Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roof and from adjoining town houses. They carried submachine guns, pistols and stun grenades, whose "thunderflash" blinds and deafens its victims for several seconds. Some slithered down ropes from the roof and threw grenades through the back windows. Then they leaped in after the explosions; others made a similar assault from the front balcony...
...assault was indeed a measure of last resort, undertaken after attempts to negotiate the release of the hostages had failed repeatedly. The gunmen who had seized the embassy at Princes Gate, in the fashionable Kensington district of London, were bitterly opposed to the regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. They had demanded the release of 91 Iranian Arab political prisoners who were being held in Iran, as well as some form of autonomy for the largely Arabic-speaking province of Khuzistan. During the early days of the embassy siege, the terrorists treated their prisoners reason ably well...
...apparently caused by one or more stun grenades, thrown by a commando. The interior of the embassy was quickly reduced to near rubble as it caught on fire from the explosions. According to some reports, S.A.S. men also broke through a brick wall from an adjoining building when the assault began...
...S.A.S.'s training grounds were the site of a party last week as the 900-man regiment celebrated the successful assault on the Iranian embassy in London...
...tests are then taught such skills as demolition, lock picking, sabotage, unarmed combat, mountaineering, skiing, underwater diving, field communication and parachute jumping. Constant practice in rescuing hostages in simulated situations on trains, aircraft and from buildings has taught S.A.S. experts split-second timing. In preparation for the Princes Gate assault, the S.A.S. built a scale model of the Iranian embassy and practiced liberating it before attempting the difficult operation...