Sunday 27 June 1976 from’ Tel Aviv airport took off on Air France flight 139 to Paris with a stopover in Athens. In the Greek capital boarded 58 passengers, took place on the plane without that there had been particularly harsh and effective controls. There were security officers at searches and no attendant at the metal detector. Among them there were also two German terrorists and two Palestinians. It was a commando with a plan prepared for six months, studied in detail and could not fail. After taking off the terrorist group came into action. The German terrorist Wilfred Böse entered the cockpit while the others were holding off passengers. Böse ordered Captain Bacos of head on Benghazi, in Libya. Successful l’ landing operation in Libyan land l’ the plane was surrounded by armored cars that gave food to the prisoners and refueling. Benghazi terrorists release a person, Patricia Hayman, that pretending to be pregnant he procured a cut all’ groin to simulate a bleeding. Convinced so the commando to let her off the plane. Just arrived in London Mrs was achieved by Mossad agents. The Mossad is l’ Israeli Intelligence Agency posed to national security. In that’ meeting took place several information about who they were and how they were armed terrorists. L’ plane shared by Benghazi was led behind l’ imposition of the hijackers at Entebbe, in Uganda. At the head of’ Uganda was the dictator Idi Amin who long before had broken relations with Israel. To welcome l’ There were other hijacked plane Palestinians and l’ Ugandan army. Monday, 28 June 1976 the hostages were taken down from the’ plane and driven to a terminal’ Airport. Idi Amin went personally to the airport and being filmed by a television crew, He tried to act as mediator. His remarks seemed intended to reassure the hostages saying they would be released if Israel had assisted the terrorists ' demands. The dictator consented all’ passing old Dora Bloch to seek treatment at a hospital in kampala. The passengers of flight 139 still hostage were then 244 for most Frenchmen and one hundred Israelis. The commando had sent a list of terrorists in prisons in Israel and France Germany to be swapped with the passengers of flight 139. An ultimatum was set for 1 July 14 After that if they hadn't been accepts requests the terrorists would kill the hostages. Israel found itself in trouble. Tried to save time searching for information through the role of Amin. It was learned that he was trained in Israel years earlier and was named an officer who had known him well, Burka Bar Lev, to begin negotiations. Meanwhile during those hours were also strange situations. One of the hijackers was born in Mexico and one of the hostages recognize him because he had grown up in the same place in Mexico. Wednesday 30 June 1976 47 non-Jewish hostages were freed and boarded an Air France plane. The Mossad achieved from France to gather information from the hostages released. Israeli secret agents acquired valuable information like what part of the’ the airport was built by Israeli company Solel Boneh. The Israeli secret service secured so the plans and began to prepare the plan to intervene. It was necessary a’ action with a surprising effect. Publicly the Israeli Government in the person of its leader Rabin sought the deal, secretly instead was preparing a military intervention. Was asked to Amin, by Colonel Burka Bar Lev, an extension of’ ultimatum that was granted to the 4 July. The latest images were relentless and glided away time of’ Entebbe airport. To this end Israeli agents relied to a former British agent, friend of Israel, who lived in Kenya and he owned a personal aircraft. MC Kenzie Mossad helped a pilot to fly over l’ Airport to take pictures. Command of the’ the Israeli action was given to Dan Shomron and Yoni Netanyahu. Four C 130 Hercules would reach Entebbe and collected the hostages, After refueling in Nairobi would return to Tel Aviv. To accomplish this the Israelis built a life-size model of the terminal and drilled several times on the evening of 2 July. You couldn't go wrong. Each team must know perfectly what it should have done. All’ occurrence the plan was so well planned, often used of mercedes for drive d’ assault. That type of car usually bore political personnel and Ugandan soldiers would be put on the’ careful and would not have opposite strengths. Saturday 3 July 1976 He left the mission. To avoid being intercepted by radar the four hercules flying at low altitude. After eight hours of flight, the planes landed without being noticed near the Bay of Lake Victoria, below the radar range and with the lights off, taking advantage of the particular morphology of the territory of the airport. A slight promontory hid l’ silent procession of Hercules that the pilots shut down the engines. L’ plane approached the terminal always silently. At 23.01 the mercedes came down the ramp and took to the particular point. A Ugandan soldier, however, became suspicious and asked to check. Began the firefight which gave l’ start all’ assault of the terminal. The Israelis killed all the terrorists within 50 seconds. Ugandan soldiers continued to shoot and hit to death Yoni Netanyahu. Under the hail of bullets passengers were taken on’ Hercules. Besides Netanyahu died three hostages. Before taking off the Israeli special forces destroyed Ugandan Mig aircraft still on track. 58 minutes after the hostages were doing back home. Mrs. Dora Bloch, in the days that followed, suffered the revenge of Amin and was killed. Sunday 4 July 1976 passengers of air France flight 139 they returned to Tel Aviv in freedom. The Entebbe operation was one of the most incredible results achieved by departments of the Mossad.
Hector Parker