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...station near the scene of the murder were leaflets printed with the five- pointed star of Action Directe, a home-grown, radical leftist terrorist group that is committed to waging urban guerrilla war against "bourgeois imperialism." The tracts claimed responsibility for the shooting in the name of Action Directe "Commando Pierre Overney," a Maoist worker who was killed by police in 1972 during labor strife outside the main Renault factory in suburban Paris...
Arnold, realizing he had hit a vein, so to speak, followed with Commando, which for a plot had a Kleenex-thin excuse to set Arnold up with an army of extras--quite literally, they played an army--and an excuse to kill them all. Note carefully: this time he was the hero...
...Pakistanis' revised version also seemed less than satisfactory. Many experts doubted that the failed generator had precipitated the fire fight and suspected that the Pakistanis were trying to cover up a bungled commando operation. But in the end, the Pakistanis may simply have decided that it was better to risk the lives of some passengers on the ground than to allow the aircraft to take...
EGYPTAIR. Last December three Arab terrorists accused of belonging to the Libyan-supported Abu Nidal group diverted a Boeing 737 to Malta. After five passengers were shot and the captain pleaded for aid, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered a commando raid. In the attack, 58 of the 79 hostages left on the plane died. More than 40 were killed by burns or smoke inhalation from fires that the commando attack ignited...
Successful commando assaults require very careful planning and expertly trained troops. An Israeli group in 1976 rescued 105 hostages from an Air France flight at Entebbe, Uganda. Four died -- three hostages and one commando. In 1977 West German forces staged the most successful raid, rescuing 86 passengers and crew from a Lufthansa jet in Mogadishu, Somalia. No commandos or hostages were killed...