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...they entered the three-story, salmon-colored palace, the Sandinistas started shooting. Six guards and two civilians were killed, and 15 other people, including one commando, were wounded. Within moments, the guerrilla raiders were in command of the National Palace. Inside were more than 1,500 people?probably the largest number of hostages ever held captive in a terrorist operation...
That will take some doing, as Denard has shown no signs of quitting his island stronghold. Each night, fire trucks and service vehicles are drawn up on the airstrip at Moroni airport to keep unwelcome visitors-including a commando force that Uganda's Idi Amin has threatened to launch-from dropping in. "If the people ask us to leave," says Denard, "we'll be gone the next morning. If they don't ask us to leave, it will take 100,000 Cubans to throw us out." It appears that the old mercenary has found a home-until...
...trained in Libya and supported by that country's radical leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, were plotting to overthrow the moderate governments in Cairo, Khartoum and Riyadh. Acting on the information provided by Israel, those governments quickly arrested a number of the plotters. Sadat went further: he launched heavy commando raids against...
...includes women and boys barely in their teens. Supported by the Ovimbundu tribe, which makes up about 40% of Angola's population of 6.2 million, Savimbi's forces now control a third of the country. They have gained an advantage by staging successful hit-and-run raids, involving small commando groups of 25 men, to keep government forces off guard...
...manager. Nor was such violence by European protesters the only source of worry. West German officials, concerned about possible left-wing terrorism during the series, and mindful of the 1972 Olympic massacre at Munich, insisted on sending with their squad twelve members of the GSG-9 anti-terrorist commando unit that freed 86 skyjacked hostages at Mogadishu Airport last October...