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The World_s Most Terrifying Standoffs _ The Greatest Crimes of All Time _ Hostage Takers(M4A_128K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: Innocent victims in the hands of ruthless criminals. Hostage takings.
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  Speaker 1: They are among the most difficult police situations, and they
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  Speaker 1: often end fatally.
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  Speaker 2: The hostage takers threaten to kill one hostage every hour.
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  Speaker 1: You Gander nineteen seventy six. An airplane hijacking turns into
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  Speaker 1: a race against time.
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  Speaker 3: You feel like you want to cover your head with
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  Speaker 3: the blanket and call Nami, Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: Gladbeck nineteen eighty eight. After three days, the hostage taker's
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  Speaker 1: odyssey ends in tragedy.
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  Speaker 4: End that way is a punch in the gut.
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  Speaker 1: Moscow, two thousand and two. Eight hundred theater goers in
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  Speaker 1: the hands of check and terrorists.
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  Speaker 5: When the armed men appeared, people first thought it was
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  Speaker 5: part of the play.
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  Speaker 1: Hostage taking. It's one of the worst crimes in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Beslam in the North Caucasus here like everywhere across Russia.
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  Speaker 1: September the first, two thousand and four is the first
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  Speaker 1: day of school. The principle welcomes the first graders and
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  Speaker 1: their parents. Russian families celebrate the first day of the
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  Speaker 1: first school year as a holiday. Then, around nine thirty am,
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  Speaker 1: an armed terror squad storms a school building.
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  Speaker 6: Taking apostages is about leverage. If you ever demid your
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  Speaker 6: hostages become the way that you get your demand, but
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  Speaker 6: also as a secondary function of hopefully protecting you while
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  Speaker 6: you are trying to get your demands fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: The terrorists are from Cheshnya, a region that has been
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  Speaker 1: fighting for its independence for years. The hostage takers demand
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  Speaker 1: the release of all check and prisoners, the withdrawal of
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  Speaker 1: Russian troops, and President Putin's resignation.
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  Speaker 6: The Russians have almost always gone for a tactical solution
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  Speaker 6: to the problem. It might have been that hoping that
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  Speaker 6: because as children, it's going to keep the Russians delay
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  Speaker 6: the Russians from going to a tactical option because of
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  Speaker 6: the loss of life of children, specifically.
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  Speaker 1: In light of the smoldering conflict. A team of the
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  Speaker 1: Russian Special Forces Alpha Group is stationed in the region
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  Speaker 1: around Beslan. They are elite soldiers named spets Nuts. Immediately
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  Speaker 1: after receiving the distress call, Lieutenant Colonel Victor st Pielevitch
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  Speaker 1: sets off the school.
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  Speaker 7: I thought, this is terrible for these children. I was
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  Speaker 7: concerned that the children come to no harm, that they
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  Speaker 7: must be freed. You go to the scene knowing that
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  Speaker 7: the situation can't be resolved in one day.
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  Speaker 1: Agent st Piedovic also knows that President Putin will not
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  Speaker 1: submit to extortion and that he himself must find a
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  Speaker 1: solution here on site.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe the terrorists believe their demands would be
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  Speaker 5: met despite their intimidation tactics. No political power would say
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  Speaker 5: yes to terrorists in such a global political context.
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  Speaker 7: The comglobal and cospective.
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  Speaker 1: When Steve Pileovich arrives at the school with his Alpha unit,
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  Speaker 1: the hopelessness of the situation becomes clear. Two hundred children, teachers,
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  Speaker 1: and family members surrounded by bombs and booby traps. The
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  Speaker 1: local police are completely overwhelmed by the situation. The first
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  Speaker 1: problem that Stupelevich must deal with. Family members are still
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  Speaker 1: gathered in front of the school.
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  Speaker 7: The biggest challenge was that the locals had weapons.
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  Speaker 8: And were boiling with rage.
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  Speaker 7: Most had children or grandchildren inside. They wanted revenge to
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  Speaker 7: kill the terrorists.
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  Speaker 6: In any house this scenario, you want to control everything
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  Speaker 6: that as far as possible that's taking place. The last
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  Speaker 6: thing you want is family members approaching the venue because
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  Speaker 6: that can definitely trigger off an event that you have
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  Speaker 6: no control over.
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  Speaker 1: The situation is extremely tense. Age and Chip Yellovich must
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  Speaker 1: quickly get an overview of where exactly the terrorists have
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  Speaker 1: holed up on the school grounds, so he has his
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  Speaker 1: sharpshooters take up positions in the adjacent buildings.
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  Speaker 7: The sharpshooters main job is to study the enemy, collect information,
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  Speaker 7: and report where the terrorists and the hostages are. They
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  Speaker 7: also make sure the area is secure, no provocation takes
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  Speaker 7: place and no more terrorists come out of the school,
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  Speaker 7: which is.
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  Speaker 1: His sniper teams identify thirty two terrorists, including so called
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  Speaker 1: black widows with explosive belts.
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  Speaker 5: Women do it because they are dependent on men in
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  Speaker 5: a patriarchy. Losing their husband means losing their life's one goal.
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  Speaker 1: The one two hundred hostages are now in the power
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  Speaker 1: of the check and terrorists. For more than twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 1: no end is in sight. After negotiating with the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: On the second day, the terrorists slit mothers with babies free.
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  Speaker 1: This deal plays into the agent's hand.
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  Speaker 7: Jim Wisher negotiations by time and the terrorists get tired
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  Speaker 7: no matter how often they change positions. Their fatigue increases
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  Speaker 7: our chances of concluding the operation successfully. The point is
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  Speaker 7: to avoid any innocent victims and above all having to
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  Speaker 7: storm the building. An assault can only be the last resort.
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  Speaker 1: While agent's chief Yelovich, plays for time. The situation inside
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  Speaker 1: the school escalates. One of the black widows blows herself up,
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  Speaker 1: killing several prisoners.
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  Speaker 6: They are all prepared to die. A lot of hosses
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  Speaker 6: takings that people want to live thereafter, so and that's
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  Speaker 6: also a good negotiation piece for the police, knowing that
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  Speaker 6: these individuals on the inside want to survive this. But
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  Speaker 6: in this scenario, we know that these types offenders are
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  Speaker 6: all prepared to die, and that really changes the dynamics
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  Speaker 6: of how you should be dealing with these type of scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: The terrorists bring sixteen hostages to the upper floor and
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  Speaker 1: execute them. Then they throw the bodies thoughtlessly out of
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  Speaker 1: the window.
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  Speaker 2: The hostage takers treated the children incredibly poorly. They watched
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  Speaker 2: as children died of starvation and thirst. This showed the
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  Speaker 2: lack of empathy in the situation suation and the lack
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  Speaker 2: of regret.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly thereafter, explosions can be heard. The roof of the
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  Speaker 1: gymnasium collapses, killing countless people. Even the experienced soldier Stupieleovitch
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  Speaker 1: is shocked by the scene.
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  Speaker 7: This is a new experience.
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  Speaker 9: I'd never dealt with children before. Yeah, throughout my service,
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  Speaker 9: I have never seen a dead child, and then so
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  Speaker 9: many at once.
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  Speaker 7: This is what hell must be like.
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  Speaker 1: Panic ensues, hostages flee from the gymnasium. Parents attempt to
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  Speaker 1: free their children. The terrorists open fire. Around two thirty pm,
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  Speaker 1: Schepileovitch receives the order to storm the school and free
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  Speaker 1: the hostages.
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  Speaker 6: The Russians opted for a technical solution to the problem,
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  Speaker 6: which means going into the venue to try and kill
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  Speaker 6: the terrorists and free the hostages, and under the best
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  Speaker 6: of circumstances, there is always a very risky option.
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  Speaker 1: Through an adjacent garden. Stepilovitch's group makes its way to
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  Speaker 1: the rear building and uses a blind spot to enter
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  Speaker 1: the cafeteria unseen through a window.
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  Speaker 7: You're full of adrenaline at the start. You must do
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  Speaker 7: everything so fast, shoot, save hostages, protect comrades, so you
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  Speaker 7: forget everything. There comes a point when you forget that
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  Speaker 7: you could die here and now.
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  Speaker 1: The Alpha unit risks its life to save the children
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  Speaker 1: from the hostage. To take because the majority of the
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  Speaker 1: terrorists have holed up in the cafeteria. The firefight lasts
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  Speaker 1: several hours. Ten thousand bullets are fired. Stipeleovitch and his
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  Speaker 1: team save hostage upon hostage from the hail of bullets,
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  Speaker 1: but their success comes at a price. Not only innocents die,
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  Speaker 1: so do three of his comrades.
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  Speaker 7: You can't consider yourself lucky to have witnessed Basilan that
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  Speaker 7: I stayed alive. You always hope to stay alive during
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  Speaker 7: an operation. That's a natural human reaction, even for an
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  Speaker 7: elite soldier.
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  Speaker 1: Stepilovitch and his unit kill twenty seven of the thirty
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  Speaker 1: two suspected terrorists. The majority of the hostages are freed,
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  Speaker 1: but the situation is not yet under control. Some terrorists
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  Speaker 1: are still hold up in a basement room and shooting
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  Speaker 1: at everything that moves, thus impeding the rescue of the
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  Speaker 1: remaining children. In this situation, the agent opts for a
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  Speaker 1: drastic solution.
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  Speaker 7: There were four terrorists left and we could not reach
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  Speaker 7: them with our weapons. We decided to get a tank
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  Speaker 7: with a sharpshooter inside. The tank shot three times from
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  Speaker 7: different directions. Of course, tank fire leaves no chance of survival.
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  Speaker 7: The operation was over shortly before midnight.
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  Speaker 1: At first, the Alpha unit believes that they've killed all
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  Speaker 1: the terrorists, but one hostage taker, Nupashi Kulayev, tries to
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  Speaker 1: escape and is taken alive. After three days, the hostage
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  Speaker 1: crisis ends with a woeful result. Three hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: one children and adults have died.
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  Speaker 5: There are situations that have only a bad outcome or
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  Speaker 5: an even worse one. No doubt some people died because
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  Speaker 5: the operation was poorly led, but it is highly unlikely
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  Speaker 5: that the government will ever admit it.
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  Speaker 1: To this day, Beslam and its inhabitants remain traumatized by
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  Speaker 1: the hostage crisis, nor will step Jeleovitch ever forget the mission.
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  Speaker 7: The government takes care of the victims, but it does
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  Speaker 7: the bare minimum. To use a metaphor, if Russia awards
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  Speaker 7: you the hero medal, you get a monthly government check.
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  Speaker 7: If not, you get almost nothing.
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  Speaker 1: In April twenty sixteen, the European Court of Human Rights
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  Speaker 1: ruled against Russia for the hostage drama's bloody ending. The
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  Speaker 1: government is supposed to pay fair compensation to the surviving relatives.
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  Speaker 1: Hostage takings almost always end fatally.
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  Speaker 2: The hostage takers threaten to kill one hostage every hour.
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  Speaker 1: The victims at the wrong place, at the wrong time.
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  Speaker 3: When I heard about the hijack, my first thought was
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  Speaker 3: about the hostages. It could have been me, It could
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  Speaker 3: have been in my family.
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  Speaker 1: Gladbeck, nineteen eighty eight. The bank robbery escalates, the robbers
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  Speaker 1: escape becomes a media circus seventy two hours long. The
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  Speaker 1: perpetrators even give interviews.
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  Speaker 10: I will hit the first one who gets in my way.
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  Speaker 2: After three days, the public pressure escalates and the police
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  Speaker 2: have to act.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, two hostages and one police officer die.
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  Speaker 4: Having it end that way is a punch in the gut.
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  Speaker 1: Could quicker intervention have prevented the death of three innocent people?
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  Speaker 1: Glad Beeck, North Rhine, Westphalia, August sixteenth, nineteen eighty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Will change Germany. One of the most spectacular hostage dramas
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  Speaker 1: in Germany's history begins in this bank.
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  Speaker 6: Suddenly they find themselves in a situation where they have
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  Speaker 6: to take hossages just to merely get away, and that
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  Speaker 6: can be quite a difficult situation to manage.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Herring at that moment is a swat team leader
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  Speaker 1: in Braymen. He knows how a hostage situation must be
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  Speaker 1: dealt with.
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  Speaker 8: The hostages' lives are the first priority, of course, then bystanders,
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  Speaker 8: police injuries, all that should be ruled out.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Herring does not yet know that all
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  Speaker 1: this cannot be avoided. In this hostage crisis, officials accede
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  Speaker 1: to the demands of the two bank robbers, Dieta Degotsky
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  Speaker 1: and Hans Jurgen Rusner, and give them a car that
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  Speaker 1: lets them escape from the bank. They take two hostages.
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  Speaker 6: With them, so you lose control. If it becomes a
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  Speaker 6: dynamic rolling situation. They can go anywhere, they can get
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  Speaker 6: more hostages, so you really have no control over what happens.
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  Speaker 6: Once they leave the premises.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of the night, the hostage takers flee
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of Bremen. There they pick up Rusner's girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: Marion Leeblich. The police are close behind. They've bugged the car.
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  Speaker 1: This is how the police also discover that the criminals
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  Speaker 1: plan to free the host stages the next day.
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  Speaker 8: If I'm told that someone is traveling north, then I
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  Speaker 8: have time to prepare to do something. There was no
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  Speaker 8: rushing around, no need for spontaneous action come until they
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  Speaker 8: got to breme It.
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  Speaker 1: However, investigators have experienced their first setback. During the night,
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  Speaker 1: the criminals stop at a gas station. They realized that
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  Speaker 1: their car is bugged. Therefore they steal another car. The
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  Speaker 1: police lose control of the hostage takers.
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  Speaker 6: There'll always be certain things you can't necessarily control, but
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  Speaker 6: the broader scenario you want to be the one in
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  Speaker 6: charge of, and in this scenario there was absolutely no
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  Speaker 6: control from the police's side.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, the police have lost the criminal's trail.
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  Speaker 1: De Gootski and Rosner still have two hostages in their
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  Speaker 1: power and downtown Bremen. They're whereabouts unknown until Michild Hearing
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  Speaker 1: is called to a bus stop in the city. They're
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  Speaker 1: the criminals hijack a bus and take thirty more innocent
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  Speaker 1: people hostage.
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  Speaker 6: So it is definitely an action of you've got more
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  Speaker 6: cards to play. It's higher risk for the police if
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  Speaker 6: they want to try something of a technical nature.
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  Speaker 10: I will get on the bus and discuss everything with
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  Speaker 10: my buddy and girlfriend and then I will hit the
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  Speaker 10: first one who gets in my way.
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  Speaker 6: The media were all over this. They were interviewing the
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  Speaker 6: suspects as this was live and happening, and it probably
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  Speaker 6: had a massive morbid fascination for people in Germany and
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  Speaker 6: probably outside of the country. As this was happening in real.
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  Speaker 1: Time, Micheield Hearing and his team are fewer than ten
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  Speaker 1: meters away and must stand by powerless as journalists mobbed
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  Speaker 1: the bus. Thirteen million viewers follow the events at the
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  Speaker 1: bus station on television, hostage taking a live event.
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  Speaker 8: The press was already here when the bus was hijacked.
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  Speaker 8: This whole area was nowhere near court of it could
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  Speaker 8: not be cleared. They did what they wanted around the
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  Speaker 8: bus and we couldn't.
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  Speaker 4: Get close enough to remove these people.
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  Speaker 1: Journalists get involved in negotiating with the criminals.
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  Speaker 2: What makes this case special is that the media went
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  Speaker 2: from observing the scene to actually becoming active agents within it.
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  Speaker 1: This time, the police do not agree and the negotiations fail.
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  Speaker 1: Their tactic play for time hours go by, but doesn't
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  Speaker 1: give up. Instead, he reacts more aggressively. The hostage takers
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  Speaker 1: continue their flight without a plan. Michael Herring and his
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  Speaker 1: team follow them to the Grundberg Say rest area. There,
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  Speaker 1: the criminals unexpectedly release the two bank employees from Gladbeck,
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  Speaker 1: and then officials make another serious mistake. They arrest's girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: on her way to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 8: Guys, we were told over the radio that miss Lublick
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  Speaker 8: could be arrested.
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  Speaker 1: Who gave the order is still unclear. This decision enraged
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  Speaker 1: the criminals.
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  Speaker 6: So I think that probably the pressure that we have
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  Speaker 6: to now do something and that could have perhaps influenced
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  Speaker 6: him to take a decision that wasn't the best planned decision,
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  Speaker 6: or perhaps in that point of the process wasn't necessarily
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  Speaker 6: appropriate to where they were in the In the process
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  Speaker 6: of the negotiations.
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  Speaker 1: Rosna goes crazy. He gives the police an ultimatum either
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend is back in five minutes or the first
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  Speaker 1: hostage dies. Seconds before Marion Leeblish comes back. Dita Deegotski
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  Speaker 1: kills fifteen year old Immanuela de Georgi.
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  Speaker 5: For mister, the.
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  Speaker 8: Worst part for me was when we got the boy
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  Speaker 8: on the ground. That was the worst.
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  Speaker 1: Hering brings the boy inside the rest area, but he
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  Speaker 1: can no longer be helped. August eighteenth, nineteen eighty eight,
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  Speaker 1: the third day of the hostage crisis, their odyssey continues.
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  Speaker 1: The two criminals are still traveling with the bus. The
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  Speaker 1: police stop the bus near Ordensalle. The criminals finally negotiate success.
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  Speaker 1: The hostages are let free, all except Silka Bischoff and
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  Speaker 1: Enos fouitle. Provided with a new car, they move on
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  Speaker 1: to Cologne again. Journalists harass the criminal duo. Although Rosner
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  Speaker 1: pistol in his hand, is unpredictable, we know.
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  Speaker 2: That violence often breeds violence, and in this case, Resner
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  Speaker 2: had a violent father, which may have influenced his own
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  Speaker 2: propensity for violence.
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  Speaker 1: Civil policemen mingle with the crowd, but Wersner detects them
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  Speaker 1: and drives on, followed by police and journalists showdown on
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  Speaker 1: the A three.
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  Speaker 2: After three days, the public pressure escalates and the police
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  Speaker 2: have to act.
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  Speaker 1: The swap team decide to take action. An armored vehicle
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  Speaker 1: rams the getaway car. Silka Bischoff dies in the rescue operation,
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  Speaker 1: a catastrophe from Michel Hearing and his team. To this day,
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  Speaker 1: a memorial commemorates the tragedy.
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  Speaker 8: In the bank of your mind, you wish for a
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  Speaker 8: happy ending, a positive finish.
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  Speaker 4: Having it end this way is a punch in the gut.
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  Speaker 1: On March the twenty second, nineteen ninety one, both hostage
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  Speaker 1: takers are sentenced to life imprisonment. Hostage situations are always
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  Speaker 1: a race against time.
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  Speaker 2: The hostage takers were unscrupulous and willing to kill to
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  Speaker 2: achieve their goals.
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  Speaker 1: Special forces units do everything to save the lives of hostages.
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  Speaker 5: They're prepared to sacrifice their lives if necessary.
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  Speaker 4: That's their job.
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  Speaker 1: Flight one three nine from Tel Aviv hijacked by cold
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  Speaker 1: blooded terrorists. They order the captain to fly to a
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  Speaker 1: new destination u Ganda, Central Africa.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the most dangerous rescue missions of all time.
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  Speaker 2: Every single piece of the plant is risky.
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  Speaker 6: This is definitely, without a doubt, regarded as one of
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  Speaker 6: the great success stories of any hostiprilies.
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  Speaker 1: If Tahata, he holds the fate of two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy hostages in his hands, and.
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  Speaker 3: I know that within one of two minutes I am
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  Speaker 3: going to kill. I'm going to be killed.
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  Speaker 1: It's June the twenty seventh, nineteen seventy six. The Air
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  Speaker 1: France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris takes off on time.
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  Speaker 1: There are many Jewish passengers on board. After a stopover
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  Speaker 1: in Greece, four hijackers take over the plane. Vilfried Burzer
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  Speaker 1: and Grigita Kuhlmann, two German RAF terrorists, and two terrorists
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  Speaker 1: of the Popular Front for the Liberation.
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  Speaker 6: The kidnappers were Palestinian kidnappers and also kidnappers and Germany,
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  Speaker 6: so it was a collaboration between two different terrorist organizations
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  Speaker 6: that had a common theme in their dislikeful Israel.
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  Speaker 1: The terrorists give the pilot a new destination, Uganda in
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  Speaker 1: Central Africa. Eleven hours later, the hijack plane lands at
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  Speaker 1: Entebe Airport. Four further Palestinian terrorists are waiting for it there. Together,
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  Speaker 1: they confined the hostages to the terminal. Then they informed
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  Speaker 1: the Ugandan president ed Armine. He is said to have
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  Speaker 1: killed over three hundred thousand people in his rise to power.
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  Speaker 1: He's considered one of the worst dictators in the world
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  Speaker 1: and he is an enemy of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Idio I mean, is one of the most notorious dictators
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  Speaker 2: in the world. He is vengeful, he's impulsive, he's power hungry,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: and this is what makes.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Him so dangerous, which is really not the kind of
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: regime that you could appeal to the common sense for
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: support in dealing with this.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Issue without diplomatic talks with Israel. Idioman decides to support
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the terrorists with his army in Kampala, Uganda's capital. No
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: one yet knows what is going on at the airport.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: He is one of the first to learn of the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: hostage crisis. A commander of the Israeli's special forces unit
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Sayeret Matkala Yftahatir is trained for dangerous missions.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: When I heard about the hijacking, my first thought was
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: about the hostages. It could have been me. It could
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: have been in my family.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Two days long. No one knows what's going on in
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the airport, tournament, what the hostage takers want. Absolute silence reigns.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Returning to the scene of the crime forty years later
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: brings the pass back to life for the sixty six
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: year old.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I remember when we were coming. It was in the
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: middle of the night, but they knew nothing of what
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: is going to happen. And it seems to me like
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: the same again. You know, we are driving in this
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: car and we look outside. They don't see us, we
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: see them.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It's kind of an operation, an operation in an environment
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: totally unfamiliar to Israeli forces. The elite soldier Atia lacks
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: essential information. Where exactly have the terrorists hold up? How
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: are the hostages fairing. They received no information from the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Ugandan authorities. How heavily armed are the terrorists. On the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: third day, Idiamine visits the hostages and announces that terrorists
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: demands five million US dollars. Fifty three terrorists are to
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: be set three within forty eight hours, otherwise the hostages die.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Idiamine is particularly famous for his rational behavior. The hostages
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: don't matter to him. It's about showing.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Off his power, So he didn't really have any particular
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: support for the beliefs of these two terrorist organizations that
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: actually kidnapped the plane.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: The Israelis have two days to free their countrymen.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: We started collecting the information about the airport, about the terminal,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: about the situation, and with the hostages themselves, and then
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: we found out that they separated between the Jews and
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the nan Jews, which is a very emotional thing for Israelis.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Ever about a member of the Holocaust, the selection.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: The mere thought of a second Holocaust leads to an
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: outcry in Israel.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Host negotiations are aimed, usually at six peaceful solution of
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: the problem and release of the hostages without loss of life.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: But we do know that you always have to have
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: your tactical option at.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: The back of your mind. Israel pretends to give into
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the negotiations, but what they're really doing is trying to
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: distract the hostage takers.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: One day before the deadline, Israel makes a decision. It
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: apparently accedes to the hijacker's demands. The terrorists free over
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: one hundred non Israelis. They are picked up on the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: fourth day.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Are releasing passages. You demonstrate goodwill and also if you're
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: very focused on your whole point is Israel, you don't
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: want to start to offend other countries.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Yif Takatier capitalizes on the release of the mostly French
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: hostages for his operation.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: He sent a small mission to France, among them an expert,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: someone from a unit who knew what questions to ask,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: such as well, the handle of the door is on
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: the left side, on the right side, we are on
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: the hijackers all the time, is any bomb plantern.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Israel receives another forty eight hours to meet the demands,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: but in reality, it uses the time to implement a
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: secret plan, a plan known only to Israel's elite unit.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Yif Taratia and his team. Their idea is to distract
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: the terrorists the soldiers where you gammed in uniforms and
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: arrive in the same Mercedes as President d Ami.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: To successfully do this operation would also show that they
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: have the capability the small country that they are as
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: striking wherever far away from their base, and that really
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: would tell a lot of other hostage takers. You're going
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: to have to go very far to be very safe
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: from us.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: The Elite soldiers fly over three hostile nations to stay
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: under the radar. They fly the entire four thousand kilometers
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: at only thirty meters above sea level. After more than
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: six hours, Entebe Airport appears. Three planes stay behind, hovering
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: over Lake Victoria. Only Hercules number one prepares to land
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: with Yiftakatia on board.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: When the plan landed, yeah, it was frightening. After the
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: aplan stopped and took the door down and the engine stopped,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: it was a silence, a very noisy silence. It was frightening.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: You know, you feel like you want to cover your
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: head with the blanket and call Nami or my God.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: But that was only for a split of a second.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: It's two minutes past twelve on July the fourth, nineteen
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: seventy six. Hercules one manages to land unnoticed on the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: furthest runway. Yftakatiir is the commander of the assault team.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: His mission storm the terminal, shoot the terrorists and free
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the hostages.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: There were three cars. I was in the second car.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: We looked around to see if we can recognize any enemy,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: and we looked forward to see the control tower. And
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I knew that within one or two minutes, I am
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: going to kill. I'm going to be killed. I was ready.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Just in front of the terminal, the column encounters two
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Ugandan soldiers. They see through the Israeli plan and shoot.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Israelis hit them first, but the element of surprise is lost.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: The commander said, go, go, go go. So I ran
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: into the hall. I saw a Gandhan soldiers. I shot in.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I ran up the stairs. I saw another two Ganden soldiers.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I killed them too, and then I searched the roof,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: and in less than once minute, it was all over.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the other three planes have landed and take the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: freed hostages on board. After fifty three minutes, the rescue
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: operation is over. Eighteen nine freed Israeli citizens leave Uganda,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: making their way back home. The miracle of Entebe becomes
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: world famous even today. The operation performed by Jiftakatia and
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: his team is considered the most spectacular rescue mission of
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: all time.
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: It really was a display of Israel's dominance for such
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: a tiny nation to have such a massive success against
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: two political two terrorist organizations and a foreign country.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Four hostages die in the firefight during the rescue operation.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: The top commander also pays with his life.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I had mixed feeling because our commander was killed on
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: in a Canur and my friend very sorry for that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: On the other hand, I was very satisfied because I
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: took part in the last well known operation ever.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Operation Thunderboat. Today it's still considered the most successful rescue
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: operation around the world. Moscow, the capital of Russia. On
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: October the twenty third, two thousand and two, check and
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: terrorists transform an evening at the theater into pure hell.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: The terrorists take more than eight hundred theater goers hostage
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: and attempt to extort the Russian government.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: When the armed men appeared, people first thought it was
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: part of the play.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: For Vitali Dimitkin, a colonel in the Russian special forces
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: unit Alpha Group, it was his worst mission.
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: We knew the situation was dire when we discovered the
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: terrorists were.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: The Russian government opts for a military solution. The hostage
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: crisis ends in tragedy Moscow the evening of October the
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: twenty third, two thousand and two, around nine pm, during
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the second act of a musical in Dubrovka Theater, the
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: bus with heavily armed men and women drives up to
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the building.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: At the musical, The musical nord Oast was always a
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: big success, playing to packed houses. A large number of
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: people was guaranteed a large room with few entrances and exits.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: The terrorists were guaranteed a large number of victims and
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: they had the opportunity to launch a successful operation with
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: minimal force.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: All of Moscow is on red alert. In addition to
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: the police and emergency personnel, the Special Forces Unit Alpha
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: heads immediately to the scene.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Alpha is the Spetsna's elite. This is a select, educated
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: and trained group that is very fit and not merely physically.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Whoever joins is prepared from day one not to come
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: back from a mission. They're prepared to sacrifice their lives
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: if necessary. That's their job.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Colonel Vitali Dmitkin prepares himself mentally for an extremely dangerous mission, because.
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: Of course I was nervous on the way. I thought
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: of my family, my children, my parents. You're going into
• 36:33
  Speaker 10: an unpredictable situation, But I was scared.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Dimitkin is an experienced elite soldier who has often risked
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: his own life in order to free hostages. The situation
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: of the theater is chaotic. Ninety people managed to flee
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the building. The doors have now been locked. More and
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: more elite units gather in front of the theater. When
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Vitali Dmitkin arrives at the building, the first hostages already dead.
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: We heard over the radio that there were hostages and
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: that the terrorists had serious weapons and bombs. There was
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: a woman who ran into the building and was shot
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: by a TERRORISTITZA.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: At this point, Dmitkin does not yet know who exactly
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the terrorists are or what they want. The Special Forces
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: set up their command centrial in the hospital across the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: street from the theater. The operations leader makes contact with
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the terrorists using walkie talkies and mobile phones.
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: We knew the situation was dire when we discovered the
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: terrorists were chechened. They have thorough training and never give up. Also,
• 38:01
  Speaker 10: they have black widows with them, ready to blow themselves up.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: The Czech and terrorists have traveled about two thousand kilometers
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: to fight for the independence in Moscow.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: For Russia, this hostage crisis was unique for its length, misery,
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: and aftermath.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: The conflict between Russia and Czechhnya began back in nineteen
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: ninety one with the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: did not accept Chechnya's independence. War broke out in nineteen
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: ninety four and nineteen ninety nine with their assault on
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the Moscow Theater. The hostage takers demand the fresh withdrawal
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: of all Russian troops. The terrorists allow the visitors to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: call their relatives.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: I can imagine what the family members felt when they
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: got those panicky calls. It was surely a dreadful experience
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: that no one should go through.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: To increase the pressure, the terrorists also have black widows
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: with them. The women with the suicide belts have lost
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: their husbands in the struggle against Russia and are therefore
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: prepared to do anything.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: The black widows are prepared to sacrifice their lives. They've
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: often lost their husbands or children in the war, and
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: they're looking for revenge.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Mediators try to enter into negotiation with the terrorists. The
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: situation is extremely tense. Dimit Kin and the Alpha unit
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: place their sharpshooters in the adjacent buildings Version in format set.
• 39:47
  Speaker 10: Sharpshooters monitor the entire area and make sure that no
• 39:51
  Speaker 10: terrorists come out or get help from outside, that they
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: get no signals from outside, that there is no one
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: in the nearby buildings telling them how many of us
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: there are or what we're.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Doing happy Machine.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: During the night, Dimitkin still does not know how many
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: hostage takers there are. The next morning, the terrorists allow
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: two doctors to take the body of the woman who
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: had been shot, Olga Romanovna, out of the building.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: The hostage takers were unscrupulous and willing to kill to
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: achieve their goals.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Vitally, Dimitkin and the Alpha team need every detail from
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: the theater, and they immediately questioned the doctors.
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: The information wasn't too precise, rough number of terrorists, type
• 40:53
  Speaker 10: of weapons, what's on the stage, and that there were
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: women with suicide belts.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: We knew this.
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: Information wasn't enough as the doctors could only observe from
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: one position which room the terrorists had and which not
• 41:10
  Speaker 10: we would have liked to know that.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: In order to get more information from the inside, the
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Alpha team looks for a way to enter the theater unnoticed.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: On the rear side of the building, they discover a
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: ladder by which the soldiers can get onto the theatre's roof.
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: As we were looking around the roof, a TV crew
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: appeared on the roof of the building across the street, transmitting.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: Live footage of us.
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: All of Russia could see the Alpha team. Of course,
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: the terrorists also saw it. They gave us an ultimatum,
• 41:54
  Speaker 10: leave the roof immediately or we shoot every tenth hostage.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: The Alpha team leaves a roof. On the third day
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: of the hostage crisis, negotiations come to a halt.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: The hostage takers threaten to kill one hostage every hour.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: This increases the pressure on the officials and they're required
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: to act quickly.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Mothsar Barayev, the leader of the terrorists, has a Russian
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: government informed that there is no going back, that they
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: have nothing to lose, and that they are prepared to die.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: The pressure on the government and the special forces unit mounts.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: A peaceful solution seems increasingly unlikely.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: You have to not make a decision. If you believe
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: that the threat is valid, you have to decide how
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: many potential hostages are we willing to risk before we
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: can take action. But at the same time, if you're
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: not prepared and ready for to take action, you could
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: have more damage by engaging in a tactical option too soon.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: The tally Dmitkin and his Alpha unit react immediately. They
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: make their way to another theater in Moscow and practice
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: the assault there.
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: We chose this building because it is structurally identical to
• 43:16
  Speaker 10: the other theater. We trained with the special units there
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: in case we had to storm the occupied theater. Some
• 43:26
  Speaker 10: of the people who work with us are scared in emotions.
• 43:30
  Speaker 10: To make the whole operation more predictable, we trained for
• 43:34
  Speaker 10: the operation in identical spaces.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: The soldiers of the Special Forces unit know that an
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: assault will take place back at Drubrovka Theater. They gain
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: access to the building through a club on its rear side.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Dimitkin wants to get as close as possible to the stage,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: as that is where the terrorists are holding the hostages.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: This time, the terrorists must not notice anything.
• 44:09
  Speaker 10: Lights are strictly forbidden. The person running ahead becomes a
• 44:13
  Speaker 10: bundle of nerves, reacting to every noise, every movement, every
• 44:19
  Speaker 10: draft of air. Normally you go from the outside inn first.
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: You stay close to the wall in a circle. You
• 44:29
  Speaker 10: secure one room at a time, moving towards the center.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: While the Alpha Team soldiers are in the building, there
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: is a serious incident outside. The terrorists fire a grenade
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: from the building, seriously injuring two Alpha Group members. The
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: special forces unit returns fire immediately. Colonel Victor Dimitkin is
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: informed about a new government tactic, leaks information that an
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: assault on the theatre is planned for the next morning.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: In reality, the Domestic Spy Agency FSP pumps an unidentified
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: gas into the theater, drugging the terrorists and hostages.
• 45:17
  Speaker 10: It was already the third day. The people inside had
• 45:20
  Speaker 10: no water and could not move. A decision had to
• 45:23
  Speaker 10: be made. Each second could mean an even bigger tragedy.
• 45:27
  Speaker 10: The terrorists, armed with bombs have slowly lost their heads.
• 45:32
  Speaker 10: The decision to use gas was made in order to
• 45:34
  Speaker 10: keep the whole theater from being blown up and turning
• 45:36
  Speaker 10: into a giant cemetery.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: When Elite soldiers stormed the building in the early morning,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: they are met with a horrifying scene in itself.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: The idea of using gas to disable everyone and enter
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: the occupied building without bloodshed is good, but in this
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: case it was like trying to shoot a fly on
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: a person's forehead. The danger to these they wanted to
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: rescue was much greater than the result they had hoped
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: to affect.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: An overdose of the gas has caused hostages and terrorists
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: to suffocate.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: The doctors didn't know what to do, as they didn't
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: know what the gas was or how it worked.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: On the morning of October the twenty sixth, the hostage
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: crisis is over, and this is the deadly result. One
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine hostages have died and all forty
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: one terrorists too, most of them died from the gas.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: For Vitterly Dimitkin, it is the worst mission of his
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: career as an elite soldier.
• 46:55
  Speaker 10: I have served in the Alpha Special Unit for twenty
• 46:57
  Speaker 10: five years and grown accustomed to the site of death.
• 47:01
  Speaker 10: When everything was over, gon I first thanked God that
• 47:05
  Speaker 10: I was still alive. Then I called my mother, I
• 47:08
  Speaker 10: told her I'm alive.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: On December the twentieth, two thousand and eleven, the European
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Court of Human Rights partially agrees with the relatives complaints.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: They claim that the risky operation caused the high number
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: of victims. There is no winner in a hostage situation.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: The victims usually continue to suffer from the experience for
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: many years afterwards. Special police units have learned from the
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: past and have developed new strategies for dealing with hostage takers.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Then as now, the protection and rescue of the victims
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: is the highest priority.