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Desastre de la Unidad Egipcia Al-Sa'iqa y La Larnaka (febrero 19, 1978)

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Mensaje por Aquiles1 Junio 4th 2014, 00:52

Late on february 18 two Palestinian terrorist had assassinated Youssef Sebai, editor of a major Egyptian newspaper and a friend of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, at a convention in the Hilton hotel in the Cypriot city of Nicosia. The terrorists then seized as hostages 16 Arab delegates (incluiding two Palestinian Liberation Organization representatives and one Egyptian national) and demanded transport to Larnaka airport. They also demanded an airliner, and were allocated  a Douglas DC-8 of Cyprus Airlines. The terrorists flew out whit 11 hostages and four crew. The DC-8 was refused landing permission in Djibouti, Syria,  and Saudi Arabia,  however, and was thus compelled to return to Cyprus.

Sadat asked President Spyros Kyprianou of Cyprus to mastermind the rescue of the hostages and seizure of the terrorists for extradition to Egypt. Kyprianou agreed and traveled to the airport to supervise matters personally.  Apparently,  at much the same time Sadat dispatched an elite antiterrorist force, the Al-Sa'iqa (thunderbolt) Unit to Cyprus on a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, informing the Cypriot authorities only that "people are on the way to help rescue the hostages" whitout any detail of their numbers, nature, and plans. Immediately after landing at Lanraka, the Al-Sa'iqa Unit began its assault: one jeep whit three  men aboard headed toward the DC-8 followed by 58 (according to other sources 74) men on foot.                                                                                                As the Egyptians moved on the DC-8 and the Cypriot national guard forces surrounding it, the Cypriot forces feared that the new arrivals might be terrorists reinforcements and ordered them to halt. The men in the jeep and the national guardsmen then exchanged fire, despite the fact that the Egyptians had absolutely no cover out on the open tarmac. The jeep was hit by both gunfire and a rocket propelled grenade, all three Egyptians being killed. As the jeep slowed to a halt, the Cypriots and the main Egyptian force confronted each other  at a range of less 330 yd (300 m), and the two forces exchanged fire. The Cypriots also fired an antitank rocket at the C-130, which was hit on the nose. All threes members of the Egyptian crew werw killed.                                                                                    Whit their transport aeroplane destroyed,  the Egyptians continued to exchanged fire whit the Cypriots for almost one hour on the open tarmac, though some of the Egyptians took cover in a nearby Air France airliner, which was empty. When the firefight finally ended, the Egyptians had lost 12 commandos killed as well as the three-man aeroplane crew. It is also estimated that another 15 commandos were taken to hospital in Larnaka whit gunshot wounds. The Cypriots, who had the inestimable tactical advantage of cover, suffered   no casualties.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          It was only after this fatal fiasco that it emerged that the surrender of the two terrorists had already been arranged at the time of the failed Egyptian attack. The two men were later dxtradited to Egypt,  where they received death sentences,  later commuted to life imprisonment. On February 20, Egypt recalled its diplomatic mission and requested that the Cyprus government should do the same, Egypt and Cyprus severed political ties until the assassination of Sadat in 1981.                                                                                                The episode also led, later in the same year, to the establishment of Unit 777 as Egypt's elite antiterrorist and special forces unit.

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Mensaje por ivan_077 Junio 11th 2014, 16:45

no tienes la fuente por ahi, aquiles?
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Mensaje por Lanceros de Toluca Junio 15th 2014, 02:33

Que p****e cagazon.

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