the raid on entebbe is one of the perfect operations of the modern era defined by surprise, speed, success. but mostly surprise. the israelis are familiar with the airport at entebbe because they built sections of it and had an active advisory force in uganda until 1973 when yamin kicked the israelis out. no one thought anyone would fly from israeli to uganda to rescue the hostages. that was surprise number one. when they landed at the airport, all the commanders were wearing ugandan military uniforms and were driving the same kind of vehicles that a ugandan general would drive. the hijackers didn t know what was going on, and, by the time they figured it out, it was too late for them. it took just 52 minutes from the time the first plane landed until it took off with the hostages. that was three minutes less than the rehearsal the night before. the rescue seemed pretty much like a modern miracle. for relatives who for days on
wrongdoing he was placed under formal investigation on wednesday for allegedly accepting millions from gadhafi for his two thousand and seven election campaign. belgium has observed a minute of silence to mark the second anniversary of the bombings that left thirty four people dead belgian prime minister sean michel laid a wreath at a memorial at brussels airport where two suicide bombers struck a similar ceremony took place at a metro station where a third attacker set off explosives. world hunger is on the rise a new report reveals that around one hundred twenty four million people in fifty one countries struggle to feed themselves last year the worst food crisis in the year was nigeria somalia yemen and south sudan where thirty two million people in total are in need of urgent assistance and when we drill down further yamin was in fact the hardest hit it has been at war since twenty fifteen and this year more
made the five-hour flight to uganda in three planes. the raid on entebbe is one of the perfect operations of the modern era defined by surprise, speed, success. but mostly surprise. the israelis are familiar with the airport at entebbe because they built sections of it and had an active advisory force in uganda until 1973 when yamin kicked the israelis out. no one thought anyone would fly from israeli to uganda to rescue the hostages. that was surprise number one. when they landed at the airport, all the israeli commandos were wearing ugandan military uniforms and were driving the same kind of vehicles that a ugandan general would drive. the hijackers didn t know what was going on, and, by the time they figured it out, it was too late for them. it took just 52 minutes from the time the first plane landed until it took off with the hostages. that was three minutes less than the rehearsal the night before. the rescue seemed pretty much like a modern miracle.
the perfect operations of the modern era defined by surprise, speed, success. but mostly surprise. the israelis are familiar with the airport at entebbe because they built sections of it and had an active advisory force in uganda until 1973 when yamin kicked the israelis out. no one thought anyone would fly from israel to uganda to rescue the hostages. that was surprise number one. when they landed at the airport, all the commanders were wearing ugandan military uniforms and were driving the same kind of vehicles that a ugandan general would drive. the hijackers didn t know what was going on, and, by the time they figured it out, it was too late for them. it took just 52 minutes from the time the first plane landed until it took off with the hostages. that was three minutes less than the rehearsal the night before. the rescue seemed pretty much like a modern miracle. for relatives who for days on end were unsure whether they would ever see their loved ones again, it was a tim
made the flight to uganda in three planes. the raid on entebbe is one of the perfect operations of the modern era defined by surprise, speed, success. but mostly surprise. the israelis are familiar with the airport at entebbe because they built sections of it and had an active advisory force in uganda until 1973 when yamin kicked the israelis out. no one thought anyone would fly from israel to uganda to rescue the hostages. that was surprise number one. when they landed at the airport, all the commanders were wearing ugandan military uniforms and were driving the same kind of mercedes that a ugandan general would drive. the hijackers didn t know what was going on, and, by the time they figured it out, it was too late for them. it took just 52 minutes from the time the first plane landed until it took off with the hostages. that was three minutes less than the rehearsal the night before. the rescue seemed pretty much like a modern miracle. for relatives who for days on