Word: commando
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...square miles of territory (an area over three times the size of Israel itself) in the 1967 war and hence caused over 150,000 West Bank refugees to become twice-displaced as they, along with an additional 100,000 West Bank residents, fled across the Jordan? Would this commando problem exist if the Palestinians had been granted an independent state or entity to compensate for their uprooting that was a result of this foreign occupation of their lands...
...helpless kibbutzniks who have been the occasional targets of Palestinians who are incensed by a hard-line and expansionist Israeli government policy, so too have defenseless Palestinian refugee camp dwellers and southern Lebanese villagers been the victims of Israeli terrorist action and military incursions initiated in retaliation to PLO commando action...
...traffic cops, and their wild fusillade when the bus was finally halted probably killed more hostages than did the terrorists. Worse, it may have driven some of the terrorists to commit suicide-and to take as many passengers as possible with them. According to an intelligence report, each Palestinian commando wore an explosive belt, and he was expected to blow himself apart if capture seemed to be imminent...
...majority. Just as the oaths were being completed, an official raced up with a message. Andreotti's face froze. The news: Aldo Moro, 61, chairman of the ruling Christian Democratic Party and a five-time past Premier, had been kidnaped moments before in a machine-gun ambush. A commando team of twelve terrorists had shot and killed five police bodyguards, grabbed Moro and escaped into city traffic...
...were abducted, subjected to humiliating "people's trials," and then released. In 1974 came the first murders; one of the victims was the chief inspector of the antiterrorist squad in Turin. Curcio was arrested in September of that year, tried and imprisoned, then sprung in a daring 1975 commando raid led by his wife. A few months later, Comrade Mara was killed in a police Shootout. In 1976 Curcio was recaptured in a Milan apartment...