Word: mogadishu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of our account of the safe rescue of the passengers and crew members being held hostage aboard Lufthansa's hijacked Flight 181 at Mogadishu, the Somali capital, came from an unexpected source: Israel. Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy obtained from an Israeli short-wave radio enthusiast a tape recording of fragments of the communications he had monitored. They were between Flight 181, two other planes carrying the West German negotiator and anti-terrorist commandos, Lufthansa headquarters and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's crisis group, which was directing the operation...
Photographers Catherine Leroy and Henri Bureau happened to be in Mogadishu on assignment for TIME when the hijacked plane arrived there from Southern Yemen early Monday morning. That day, they photographed the grim scene at the airport as the body of the slain pilot was removed from the plane. They then decided to wait around at the field, on a hunch that Flight 181's four-day odyssey was about to reach a climax. Reports Leroy: "We knew something was coming up at 1:30 a.m. when the Somali police pushed us to a corner of the airport right...
Last week, however, terrorism suffered a dramatic setback. The West German government refused to bow to the demands of a pistol-armed band of two men and two women who had skyjacked a Lufthansa jet and embarked on a 110-hour odyssey of terror from Majorca to Mogadishu, Somalia. There, in a daring middle-of-the-night raid, West German commandos rescued 82 passengers and four crew members, killed three of the skyjackers and wounded the fourth (see following story...
...will it all end? "The last victor is always the one with the most resources," observes a diplomat in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. "The Somalis control the Ogaden, but how will they maintain it? The Somali people now think the W.S.L.F. is some kind of superman. There will be great disillusionment if the front should lose." Perhaps, as has happened so many times before, the war will end in a stalemate of exhaustion. But given the passions of the Ogaden, the chances are that, after an interval, the fighting will begin again...
Though no Western correspondents were allowed to observe the desert combat at first hand, Somalia's Radio Mogadishu reported that guerrillas of an organization known as the Western Somali Liberation Front had captured as much as 90% of the Ogaden-all, in fact, except the Ethiopian strongholds of Dire Dawa, Harar and Jijiga, where fighting was raging...