Posted on 07/13/2011 9:48:15 AM PDT by DFG
Thirty-five years ago last week, Israeli commandos flew into the heart of Africa to the old terminal building at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. In a lighting operation, they freed 103 hostages. 248 passengers and 12 crewmembers had been hijacked a week earlier aboard Air France Flight 139 en route from Athens to Paris. The hijackers were German and Arab -- this was a collaboration between Baader-Meinhof and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-Leninist PLO faction that is now part of Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA).
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July 4th 1976
Is this the raid where Benjamin Netanyaho (sic) ‘s brother was killed?
Yes. Yonatan Netanyahu was raid’s leader, and the only Israeli soldier who died.
I remember calling the Israeli embassy to congratulate them and express condolences.
Nice post - thanks.
One of my favorite movies is about the Entebbe Raid, starring Charles Bronson, Martin Basalm, Jack Warden, and a very young James Woods.
Don't forget Yaphet Kotto as Idi Amin
Yeah, he nailed Amin.
Day of the Bicentennial. We lived at NAS Corpus Christi and there was a big airshow and base-wide whoop-up. I’m sure my parents knew about the Entebbe raid, but I was only 10.
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