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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
germany did not "negotiate" with terrorists they capitulated, gave up, gave in, surrenders etc etc etc. A revolting display of National cowardice, spinlessness.
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Team Sergeant,
I gotta admit, I'd rather seen those mofos taken out by the GSG9 or KSK, too. I ain't sure why it didn't happen but it surely doesn't have to do
anything with cowardice.
As you might know, kidnapping's a business down there. In Yemen for instance they often take and hold people for relatively small ransom or for reasons of local politics (e.g. building roads and stuff).
And that violent abduction had a obvious pattern which suggests to me that that was not really political. So Germany just played the game as most countries do in those situations.
And Germans are usally not even negotiating with real terrorist, look here:
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[...] the RAF tried to exert additional pressure by hijacking the Lufthansa airplane Landshut on October 13 with the help of the allied Palestinian terrorist group PFLP. After a long odyssey through the Arabian Peninsula and the killing of Captain Jürgen Schumann, the terrorists and their hostages landed in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
After political negotiations with the Somali leader Siad Barre, the German government was granted permission to assault the plane. This was carried out on October 18 by the special task force GSG-9, which had been formed after the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis. All hostages were freed without injuries; only one terrorist aboard survived.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Autumn
Glück ab,
Mercenary