DBWI: The Munich Olympics Crisis is worse
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Archibald
Banned
OOC: you realize how many things were AGAINST the unfortunate German police and soldiers that day ? with respect to them, they did everything wrong. Just everything.
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We were fortunate that the hijackers and terrorists were devastated by a sudden and very severe case of food poisonnning. This totally impaired their judgement, weakened them as much as most of the actions against them atempted by the German police and army. Let's face it: the policemen were brave, but not up the task. No one had ever faced a situation like this.
the report of the German commission on the hijacking can be found easily on the internet. The level of blunder on the German side is astonishing, they were damn lucky to save the hostages. Everything could have gone extremely wrong. Read the snippers testimony. He couldn't believe he did it safely, even today. The lesson were not lost, however.
Today German special forces are the best in the world. Not a single terrorist stand a remote chance against them - remember when in 2000 they dismantled those cells in Hamburg preparing grand scales attacks on the United States ?
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We were fortunate that the hijackers and terrorists were devastated by a sudden and very severe case of food poisonnning. This totally impaired their judgement, weakened them as much as most of the actions against them atempted by the German police and army. Let's face it: the policemen were brave, but not up the task. No one had ever faced a situation like this.
the report of the German commission on the hijacking can be found easily on the internet. The level of blunder on the German side is astonishing, they were damn lucky to save the hostages. Everything could have gone extremely wrong. Read the snippers testimony. He couldn't believe he did it safely, even today. The lesson were not lost, however.
Today German special forces are the best in the world. Not a single terrorist stand a remote chance against them - remember when in 2000 they dismantled those cells in Hamburg preparing grand scales attacks on the United States ?
GarethC
Donor
There's an apocryphal rumor that's been going around since then that a junior police officer actually had to a TV news director at gunpoint to prevent the live broadcast of the assault team getting ready to go down the ventilation shafts.
The snipers were not army - the army couldn't take part in police actions within the FRG under law, so a local judge and notary were brought in to witness their discharge of the soldiers from the military, and attachment as civil advisers to the Bavarian state police, while on the airport runway waiting for the helicopters to land. They were then re-enlisted within the week.
The snipers were not army - the army couldn't take part in police actions within the FRG under law, so a local judge and notary were brought in to witness their discharge of the soldiers from the military, and attachment as civil advisers to the Bavarian state police, while on the airport runway waiting for the helicopters to land. They were then re-enlisted within the week.