Problem is that we're focusing on two independent things. You keep trying to draw me into a discussion of special forces, a subject I didn't bring up
Problem is you did bring it up in your very first post on the subject and everyone since.
I quote you:
"It was reckless because the German police lacked the wherewithal to do the job but the Germans wouldn't include the competent Israelis"
"I would have used the Israelis. The Israelis were uniquely adept at such things at that point in time. Entebbe, for example..."
As I said, the Israelis were neither competent nor adept at such operations in 1972 and the Israeli Entebbe OP was in 1976. In 72, the Israelis had never trained for them and had no such unit.
The Germans on the other hand had a highly skilled unit on the scene.
You keep trying to draw me into a discussion of special forces, a subject I didn't bring up, know next to nothing about, prefer to leave to the experts, and don't have anything to say about.
You don't have anything correct to say. Insisting the Germans should have used Israelis, who had no appropriate force, for this action is laughable to someone like me.
And I don't need google for this discussion. But thanks for confirming that I'm right. Amazing what is on the net these days. By the time of this OP in 1972, I had almost 10 years in SF, 7 years overseas and was in my 4th continuous year of overseas SF deployment, the rest was in training and schools. By then I had been around the world several times and had worked in over 25 countries. I don't consider myself an expert, but I won't be offended if you do.
LOL
The only Army in the world with a trained hostage rescue force, in 1972, was US Special Forces. They were the Son Tay Raiders who had trained most of a year together in 70-71.
Your repeated assertions that the Israelis had such a force in 72 was wrong, no other Army in the world had one except us and we had folks in the area. The Germans handled the situation appropriately. All of the experts except you and your reporter agreed on that.
Your stating several times that the Germans should have used the non-existent expert Israeli Special Forces hostage rescue folks still has not made it true. But keep trying.
My topic was the ridiculous leap of the author
My topic is your ridiculous leap into Israeli Army units that did not exist at the time.
BTW, I have trained Israelis.
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PS. I was just kidding you when I said I may not recall the details. |
