Word: mogadishu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrewdly. First of all, he had the sense not to call army troops out into the streets, which would have alarmed Germans and other Europeans alike. When he did use troops, in 1977, it was to launch the dramatic commando raid that rescued a hijacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu...
...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...
...freedom. Other radical lawyers have carried more than pamphlets or information into prison. Arndt Müller was accused of smuggling weapons in his briefcase to Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe, who used them to commit suicide after the dramatic rescue last October of Lufthansa passengers held hostage in Mogadishu, Somalia. Siegfried Haag awaits trial in a Bochum prison on charges of carrying weapons to terrorists and of planning a 1975 raid on the West German embassy in Stockholm in which three were killed and 30 wounded...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.) along with fellow physician Dr. George Habash, and mastermind of many spectacular anti-Israeli terrorist acts, including the hijacking of four airliners in one operation in 1970 and the seizure of the Lufthansa airliner stormed by West German commandos at Mogadishu late last year; of an undisclosed illness; in East Berlin...
...nettle of disastrous defeat, Somalia's President Mohamed Siad Barre last week sought to pluck a flower: the U.S. military assistance for which he has been campaigning for months. From Mogadishu, Barre ordered home 20,000 Somali troops who have been battling Ethiopians, and recently Cubans and Russians, in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia in support of ethnic Somalis living there. By playing the peacemaker and withdrawing his invasion forces from territory to which he had no claim anyway, Barre satisfied a Washington condition for receiving defensive weapons to protect himself against the troops now sweeping toward...