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Ah yes (Score:1)

by pdcawley (485)

I saw that documentary too. Quite staggering levels of incompetence on the part of the German police. Some of it forgiveable (security of the village for instance; it wasn't until there'd been attacks like this that people realised there was a threat), lots of it not. The behaviour of the press, in running the live feed of the German forces preparing to attack the appartments was utterly irresponsible for instance. As was letting the cameras that close in the first place.

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  by jand (379) <jand@activestate.com> on 2002.02.11 3:51 (#4315) Journal
  
  Ironically, 5 years later they exactly the reverse situation: a hijacked Lufthansa machine was sitting on the Mogadishu airfield and they had to convince the Somalian government to let GSG9 (and SAS) operators perform the rescue attempt instead of Somalia forces. I believe they actually trained with the Somalians until they admitted that they couldn't pull it off themselves.
  
  I remember watching an interview with the German official (Wischnewski) leading the negotiations with the Somalian president. He promised that all prisoners taken would be handed to Somalian forces. The president only looked at him with big eyes and said: "You are planning to take prisoners?"
  
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