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>> this is happening now if you can possibly believe that. >> the parents are saying they will blow up the school killing all the children inside. >> the parents have been wamging a war. >> the finished army are the terrorists. >> no one, even the most powerful has immunity. >> they have 298 people held hostage. >> they're have good ideals and they are going about them the wrong way. >> it ended with the appeal revolutionaries of the world
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unite. terrorist attacks where hostages are taken have become
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common. >> they have gorillas fired at them. >> they saw the development of the terrorist repertoire. they have grapes, bombing and machine guns, death and destruction. >> those who wanted change faster than was going to come resorted to violence. >> japan had the first hijacking. >> that are took them as far as athens, greece. >> they thought of terrorism as a problem that happens a world or half a world away. terrorism began to hit home. >> an elegant town house was rocked by a series of explosions. >> they're thought a gas line
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was responsible except that it destroyed the house and badly damaged the neighboring homes, one belonging to dustin officerman and they found the basement work with the colors needed to make bombs. the violence oriented weather man. >> the new york cell of the weather underground was beginning to be placed at an officer's dance. however, something went badly and three ended up dead. >> the daughter of the owner and another girl fled after the blast. >> i went into survival mode both to get out of the house and then to get away from the police. at that point i was combatant. >> the student protesters turned into revolutionaries using far more lethal weapons. >> we were all about changing hearts and minds and the 70s was
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just about expressing anger. the international politics and domestic politics seem to be decided by violence. violence only begets violence. it was a tape recording. >> sisters and brothers. we are not just attacking targets. we are bringing the giant to its knees. guard your children and guard your doors. >> at one minute before 1:00 this morning, the switch board at the capital received a phone call and said a bomb would go off in a half hour. at 1:30 it did. credit was claimed by the weather underground. >> in 1971, it appears that
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weather is aiming even higher. at that point their idea was fewer bombs, higher profile targets. >> bomb the capital to bring joy. to bring joy to america. to bring a smile and a wink to all the kid who is hate the government. >> when the police killed the young, when washington escalated the car to cambodia, we bombed the capital. it was trying to exact a price for the tell us decisions. >> much had visitors and tourists roaming through the halls. >> the 70s is a first great era of air travel. at this time there was no security at airports. you could literally walk through
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the terminal sometimes even on to the plane without anyone checking your bags or person. >> one of the reasons for the rise of contemporary international terrorism was the development of modern jet air transportation. these were nationally labeled containers of potential hostages at 35,000 feet. >> good evening. the middle east c. >> palestinian commandos took over a british airliner, the fourth successful hijacking in as many days. they were occupied by two other planes. twa and sisz airliner. >> on a break hot defty airstrip in the desert.
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they are surrounded by arabs who say they will kill them all if there is an attempt at rescue. >> they proudly claimed credit for the coordinated actions. >> the arabs, not just the palestinians look at occupying force. it's occupying arab land. they don't believe israel should be there. that's the basis of the conflict. >> there is a group on every plane to complain our problem. the palestinian problem and to convince the whole world. >> the palestinians thought they had no choice. no one was listening to them. >> can she tell us how the passengers are.
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this was maximized and provided an opportunity to illuminate the cause. for 2o years they will have no bitty for the 2.5 million. >> the hijackers placed dynamite and the official said the planes can be blown up at the push of a button. all the passengers have been taken off before the dynamiting. >> the black cloud could be seen for miles. the situation had begun. >> they call it national resistance. for us, it was clear that the palestinian problem was not
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republican army. >> the ira of the 1970s used violence that many considered terroristic and they put pressure on the british to withdraw and bring about an independent country free of british rule. >> this is something the country will not forget. it started when catholics protested internment of suspected terrorists. they were banned by the government. >> the protest was not about using violence, but when some of the marches started, it led to a dramatic and awful overreaction. >> at least 13 were shot by british soldiers.
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bloody sunday was the breaking point. it was a war between the army and the ira. >> that's the terrorists. they introduced the terrorist situation. as long as they seek so intimidate ordinary people. >> there was bad trouble. they set off 20 explosions for an hour and a half. they had a long history of northern irish violence. 13 people are known dead and more than 120 injured. >> they became known as bloody friday to undermine british rule and make them ungovernable.
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>> the targets seem to be chosen because they would be crowded with people at that time of day. >> they managed to make the regularity of bombs going off. the norms in northern ireland in the 1970s. >> what do you think will happen? >> it will keep going on and going on. >> it's get to end sometime. >> nobody knows. the olympics have become the one thing the germans didn't want them to be. the olympics of terror. the phone rang and they said you better get in here.
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terrorists have taken over the department. i said they did what? >> 5:00 this morning before dawn, guerillas believed to be over in number, they got into the headquarters on the israeli team. >> this was the first olympics that would have unprecedented live television coverage. >> this is happening now if you can possibly believe that. guerillas are in the israeli olympic team. nine people, one believed dead. this is a live picture you are looking at with the side of one of the guerillas. >> the of that is theater. munich was show shocking because we televised it. >> they have tossed a window and it bore the title and listed five points. >> the first purpose was to
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seize them as hostages and bartter them for the palestinians. the more strategic purpose was to get the attention on the cause. >> it appears to be confirmed though anything confirmed is difficult. these are from the very extreme left wing group called black september. >> for ended with the appeal called revolutionaries of the world unite. >> it came out of fatta. that was yasser arafat. he was involved in the cause since the 1960s. >> a fat thought he was the leader of the palestinians and he was. he couldn't control all of them, but in as much as they had a representative, it was yasser arafat. >> five minutes past the deadline and they said they would execute the conference. >> 900 million people were
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transfixed watching this grizzly terrorist drama play out in front of them. >> the hostages and the arab commanders who held them hostage for the day have now left to a makeshift helicopter pat. >> the israelis wanted to rescue them and the germans said no. >> we find this drama has not ended. >> the german police were set up. at the nearby air base to neutralize the terrorists and there by rescue the hostages. >> all hell has broken loose and there is shooting going on and report of a burning helicopter. >> police force his no training in this area. they didn't expect people who were heavily armed and willing to sacrifice their lives for a
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cause. >> they now said two were killed. nine were killed at the airport tonight. they are all gone. >> this stunned the world. hundreds of millions were appalled by this event and it galvanized the number of nations to begin to take the problem of terrorism more seriously. >> hard thought has to be given to bands of terrorists disrupting whole nations. it will be unpleasant, but civilize people have to accept security action and put up much tougher resistance. until the fashion dies out or is
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>> per there is a big kidnapping on the west coast. patricia hearst, computer daughter of randolph hearst. >> she is 19 and she and her
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fiance were in her apartment when a woman and two armed men burst in and dragged her down the stairs and threw her into the trunk of a car and drove off. >> the kidnapping may be part of a campaign of terrorism. what looks to be the first real message. >> the irony of the kidnapping is that the most marginal of groups managing to pull oust biggest media spectacle of the decade. >> the kidnappers are members of a terrorist group that calls itself the sim bion ease liberation army. >> they will oppose the present system and its government. it calls on them to unite. with the demands, death to the
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fascist insect that preys on the life of the people. we love you, patty. we are praying for you. they are going about the ideals the wrong way. >> patty hearst claims she is part of the sim bion ease liberation army. >> at least initially was skepticism that she would join this group. it wasn't until she showed up in the middle of a bank robbery with a machine gun that suddenly they realize this heiress is a part of a drift group.
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>> people didn't understand the hostage reaction. the term tock home syndrome was not current. >> it was a fascinating case in stockholm. a bank robbery. one of the women who was held hostage is waiting for the robber to get out of jail to marry him. >> what? >> it's a traumatic experience? which the individual is reduced to total helplessness and begins to identify in a human sense with the captor. >> good evening. patty pefrt has been taken into custody. the fbi said she was picked up in san francisco. the hearst newspaper heiress has been missing for 19 months. >> her famous line when she was taken to the courthouse and asked her occupation, she said urban guerilla.
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>> she was drawn into a group of young people who saw themselves as political idealists. they said something about the if you tillity of terrorism. it doesn't seem to be reaching the underground or the arrest. >> they staged a bloody attack in israel. >> it happened and began across from a high school. >> they realized that terrorism was both evolving and becoming worse and they had to confront the terrorists head on. >> the terrorists are saying unless they are met, they will blow up the school and everyone said. the unit moved alongside the school.
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>> this was an exemptionular of counter terrorism's evolution. the israelis attempted to break the siege and it was unsuccessf unsuccessful. >> third dead and the number of injured stands at 87. >> sometimes the results were tragic, but at least they were confronting the terrorists and making them understand they wouldn't have an open field to carry out the operations. >> where were the israelis right to storm the cool where the terrorists held the children hostage and should there be equal condemn nation of slaughter? in the latest reprisal rate, 50 lebanese are reported killed.
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>> yasser arafat continued his trip from egypt to new york as he prepared to talk for the palestine liberation organization before the united nations tomorrow. >> we have people who have been trained and we are at now who intent to make sure arafat does not leave this country alive. >> they brought yasser air fas to the united nations from the airport because of threats against his life. >> coming to the un was huge because he was a terrorist. he was behind munich. for somebody to kidnap and murder israeli athletes, coming to the un, it was a surprise to us. >> to many people in the room, he was a terrorist. to an equal number of people he was a freedom fighter.
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[speaking foreign language] >> in the 1970s, this rhetoric made perfect sense. people could identify with arafat and see israel as the oppressor. [speaking foreign language] >> while the palestinians haven't got the palestinian liberation they were seeking, they put themselves on the agenda on a high level and this happened fast. >> in a historic vote, the assembly supported the claim to stood hood and a second resolution passed to give the palestinian liberation organization a formal place at un.
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in the u.s., terrorism takes the form of bombings. the fbi records more than 1,000 terrorist bombings every year. >> it is startling how widespread bombings were in the 1970s. they happened by the hundreds. >> they put bombs in the state department and in a military induction center in oakland, california. >> it was not a weapon that you used to kill people. it was something you used to disrupt things. somebody called them exploding press releases. >> they were sent to protest against american involvement in indo china. >> the problem with lots of little bombs is the first gets page one news. when you are up to the 30th bomb, it's on page six. >> a bomb exploded at los angeles international airport.
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>> some groups only by being more ruthless can we achieve our goals. >> two people were kill and 30 injured. >> an explosion left three dead. >> terrorists filt they had to innovate in the direction of higher profile targets or higher body counts. >> in birmingham, england, several bombs blue up in the center of the city and at least 17 people are dead and 70 more are injured. >> the first went off in a crowded pub in the city center. minutes later, a second bomb exploded in another pub. there have been 200 people inside. police said they were searching fors in the rubble. >> terrorism only works when it shocks people. >> the irs attempts a new tactic to bring the conflict to the british mainland. >> the home front has itself become a battlefield in the
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raging guerilla war over northern ireland. >> there have been many bombings in recent months as the terrorism of northern ireland spread, but tonight was the worst. >> the sheer audacity was unrivalled. attacking opec from oil power. three men were killed and three wounded. >> there was speculation that one of the terrorists in europe's most wanted fugitives also known as the jackal. >> this is the clearest that exists. that's him. breaking away and answering a call from near the plain. >> he had a flair for publicity becoming the best known terrorist of that era. >> who are is this man known as
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carlos ramirez sanchez. who is paying him and how many are in his group of terror? >> he is thought to be a venezuelan and moscow train and politically motivated boo and wanted by france and austria. >> this is a face for international terrorism. here's a venezuelan and working with the german exchanging for an imprisoned red army drift and $300,000. >> he claimed with him only political and ideological
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positions. he is sought in the bombing of a crowded store and a ba looka attack last january. >> carlos maintained his cover as a playboy and learned to use women to store weapons. >> he was a womanizer and wanted to stay in the nicest hotels. that was part of the romanticism of being a terrorist in that era. >> it was very violent. everybody knows that. >> the police moved in on carlos last july, he killed two of them and disappeared. they were specifically trained to fight dror groups. >> what happened between 72 and 76 in germany and other parts of
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the world is a complete revolution of the military. much more emphasis on counter terrorism. >> don't miss! >> here's the situation and what's turning out to be the year's most spectacular hijack story. 101 hostages released today were flown to paris, but another 110 are still being held at the airport in uganda and about 85 of them are israeli nationals. >> relatives of the hostages held a meeting with representatives this morning and didn't care that israel has a policy of not dealing with terrorists. they wanted action from the government. >> israel set the example for many countries. they told the terrorists we are not going to negotiate with you. we do not recognize your legitimacy. >> if you are hard lined with the response, how do you end the episode? do you stand by while all hostages are killed?
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defined by surprise, speed, and success. mostly surprise. >> they built sections of it and had an active advisory force until 1973 when a min kicked the israelis out. >> no one thought anyone would fly there to surprise them. when they landed, all the commanders were wearing ugandan uniforms and driving the same mercedes that a general would drive. >> the hijackers didn't know what was going on. by the time they figured it out, it was too late for them. >> it was 52 minutes from the time the first plane landed. that was three minutes last than the rehearsal the night before. >> the rescue seemed like a modern miracle. the relatives were unsure whether they would see the loved ones again, it was a time for joy and jubilation.
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>> what made you think that israel could pull off an operation like this? >> the rescue was one of the few bits of good news regarding counter terrorism. it was followed by the daring rescue of german passengers aboard a hijacked lufthansa aircraft. >> the explosion and gunfire. >> the passengers and crew were freed in a lightning predawn raid by german commandos at somalia's airport. >> there was a sense that the pendulum was swinging. if you hijacked the plane, you didn't get a free run to the press conference. >> once again, we see terrorism's evolution where they often to to change up the paactf they are to stay ahead of the government. >> a key government adviser was kidnapped today. >> the terrorists riddled the
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cars with machine gunfire. the body guards were killed. >> this is the third terrorist incident in the past six months. all involved deaths and all involved gang. >> the red army in west germany was part of a trend of marxist van guard groups. the weather men in the united states. these were people who felt that the structures needed to be destroyed and the only way of doing that was through violence. >> the police have been waging a war against the terrorism terrorists killing some. the leaders have had more influence from inside than outside. authorities claimed this man continued to mastermind operations from inside prison, passing instructions through his attorneys. >> they said the most fantastic
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thing was not to be a rock star, but a revolutionary. >> the red army killed selectively, prosecutors, bankers and leaders they worked to destroy. >> they thought the more high profile the more like lie this would start the revolution. the spark of violence would catch on. >> 61 years old, the former premier of italy kidnapped in a bloody shootout by a bunch called the red brigades is nowhere to be found. >> moro's kidnapping hit a man in the heart. the attitude that the chaos in italy is the natural state of affairs here is no longer acceptable. >> the whole idea with the attacks is to shake the confidence of the government. and they did. >> they are struggling to maintain law and order and appear to be no match for
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terrorists who have gunned down judges, journalists, business executives, politicians, and policemen. >> moro's body was found in downtown rome today. the leader is one of the most respected men in the country had been brutally murdered by the red brigade's kidnappers. >> everyone realizes, no one, even the most powerful has immunity from the urban guerillas. >> political terror in ireland claimed the first member of the royal family to be killed in modern times. a powerful bomb demolished his yacht. a grandson also died. >> the british army cannot defeat us, yet they continue with the oppression of our people. for this, we will tear off the sentimental imperialist hearts. >> they would clear that and they were targeting the heard of
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the political enemy. >> it preached outrage in england. in some way they welcome it. it's good that they are outraged. they are paying more attention. >> is blowing up a 79 yore >> is this something the ira should be proud snf. >> he was a person who personified british imperialism. his legislation has made for the state of war which exists to day. >> the british government fears the brutal violence in ireland could grow worse, possibly even including attacks on the queen. >> queen elizabeth's opening speech to parliament promised to restore peace to northern ireland, and the i.r.a. says its response will be simply more shootings, more bombings. every business is different. but every one of those businesses
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the u.s. embassy in tehran has been invaded and occupied by iranian students. the americans inside have been taken prisoner. >> i'll be honest with you. i was scared. who knows what a mob could do? >> the american hostages were blindfolded, handcuffed and
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marched out on the u.s. embassy's front steps by the revolutionary students. in return for their american hostages' freedom, they're demanding the united states give up the deposed shah of iran from his hospital bed in new york to stand trial before a people's court. >> amidst the iranian revolution, american's ally the shah of iran is toppled. both the shah and the united states seem to be aloof to the revolutionary fervor. >> the new iranian islamic republic would be inspired by the stern religious principles of islam, nothing else. >> ayatollah khomeini became the enemy of the united states the moment he replaced the shah. he gave a series of sermons that condemned the loss of iranian sovereignty. >> when ayatollah khomeini saw large groups supporting in front of the embassy, he made the decision, i'm not going to stand against this wave. i'm going to ride it. >> there has been a persistent
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belief in many quarters here in iran that the united states government was plotting to restore the shah to power here. >> from the iranian standpoint, it wasn't terrorism. they looked at the embassy as an occupying force. the embassy was actually the agent for controlling iranian politics. >> a new warning. he said if the americans try military force to rescue the hostages, the students will kill them all and blow up the embassy. >> because of the distance from tehran to the arabian sea, a rescue of the american hostages is considered unlikely. >> how much longer can you go on doing this? >> we are ready to go on until martyrdom. martyrs are alive in islam. martyrs do not die. martyrs are not destroyed.
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>> so the bullets do not really kill? >> the bullets do not kill the rights of the people. >> terrorism was suddenly moving from what had once been almost entirely a secular, politically ideological movement to something that is now motivated or fueled by religious fervor. >> in mecca, men described as religious deviants are holding hostages in the sacred grand mosque. >> 15,000 pilgrims were praying at dawn when the 30 giant doors were sealed off by hundreds of members of a muslim sect. they seek to purify the religion from what they say is the corrupt influence of the current saudi arabian government. dozens are said to have died. >> this group of radicals took over very abruptly, very suddenly and very quickly islam's holiest sites. >> saudi officials rush tanks and troops to mecca surrounding the shrine. eyewitnesses say as many as
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10,000 pilgrims are still inside the grand mosque, and sniper fire was heard all day in mecca. >> broadcasts from iran today blame the united states for the assault on the grand mosque in mecca, the muslim holy city in saudi arabia. those broadcasts were heard in islamabad where a mob stormed the american embassy, killed a marine guard and trapped about 100 americans in the embassy. >> the mob was screaming "kill the american dogs" in islamabad. this is the third major event in the muslim world in the last 24 hours. >> in tehran this morning, millions of people are shouting "death to the shah, death to carter." that is followed by the cry "god is great." >> these groups are very hard to dissuade. these people believe that god is on their side. that is a very powerful form of delusion. >> by the end of the year, it was clear that the united states was so ill prepared and failed
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to recognize the extraordinary change that had happened in the '70s. >> new year's eve, end of the decade but not yet of the deadlock. >> in 1979, we take a deep breath and realize we're on the precipice of an entirely new era of terrorism. >> the crisis goes well beyond the u.s. embassy walls in tehran. >> rather than catching our breath, we should have been thinking, how can this get worse? >> it sounds like the most futile observation possible, but i'm going to make it anyhow. we have to find a way to stop terrorism. it is growing at a scary rate. terror is a new form of warfare, and history shows that every new form of warfare, like hitler's blitzkrieg, seems indomitable at first, but it soon provokes ingenuity to find ways to overcome it. remember skyjacking seemed insuperable in this country once. we have stopped it.
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