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Millions had watched the commando operation on television, and when it was over, all Britain was in a mood to celebrate. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hailed it as "a brilliant operation, carried out with courage and confidence," which made her countrymen "proud to be British...
...explosion that blew out the front windows of the embassy was 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...
...prisoners, killing one of them and wounding two others, including Chargé d'Affaires Gholam Ali Afrouz. Given the amount of terrorist fire occurring at that moment, said Morris, it was a miracle that only one man was killed. When one gunman took careful aim at an S.A.S. commando entering through a window, Constable Lock tackled the terrorist, and the commando shot the gunman dead...
...flames broke out, Hostage Simeon Harris, 33, a British Broadcasting Corp. technician, ran onto the front balcony and waved, but a commando outside the window shouted to him, "Get down, get down!" When Harris replied, "I'm going to burn to death," another commando ordered, "Come here, come here," and helped the technician to the adjoining town house. Said Harris, who re-entered the embassy through another room: "They didn't lead us out, they threw us out, tossing us from one commando to another in a chain." The S.A.S. also took the precaution of tying the hostages...
...returned the fire. When the fusillade had ended, five of the students were dead and 16 had been wounded. Within an hour, Israeli soldiers clamped a curfew on Hebron, set up roadblocks around the town and scoured the area for the terrorists. At week's end a Palestinian commando group with headquarters in Damascus took responsibility for the brutal attack...