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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Erm... the storming of the school was not planned.
Two cars approached the school, as agreed by negotiators, to pick up the bodies of those killed on Wednesday. For some reason, there was an explosion and a number of hostages made a break for it. The terrorists started shooting at the fleeing hostages (brave men and women shooting kids in the back as they ran away, eh?).
Police, and locals armed with small arms, returned fire at the terrorists and then a large fire-fight erupted. The Special Ops decided they had to storm to prevent the terrorists killing everyone.
This according to all the news I've seen since then. But, to be fair, I haven't checked Fox... :-)
Mr Mephisto
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I was going to respond to Seaver but its academic now, reading mephisto's post.
Just for the record, though, here's some suggested reading on how to go about rescuing hostages. And I don't mean to be an asshole about it, I'm trying to point out there is a right way and a wrong way to go about handling this type of situation. The Russians did it the wrong way and everybody died. The Israelis did it the right way, killed all the terroists and freed the hostages.
Overview
The Entebbe Rescue Mission
In-Depth
Entebbe Diary