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  2. Hostage Rescue Team - Wikipedia

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    The Hostage Rescue Team ( HRT) is the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) elite tactical unit. [9] The HRT was formed to provide a full-time federal law enforcement tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents throughout the United States. [9] Today, the HRT performs a number of tactical law enforcement and national security ...

  3. Rescue of Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted - Wikipedia

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    Rescue of Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted. On January 25, 2012, a team of United States Navy SEALs raided a compound 12 miles north of the Somali city of Adado, killing nine Somali pirates and freeing their hostages, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted.

  4. 2020 Nigeria hostage rescue - Wikipedia

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    6 killed. During the early hours of October 31, 2020, United States Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) conducted an operation in Northern Nigeria, resulting in the rescue of an American hostage and the killing of six of the seven captors. [5] [6] The hostage, 27-year-old Philip Walton, had been kidnapped in ...

  5. Entebbe raid - Wikipedia

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    The Entebbe raid or Operation Entebbe, officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan ), was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to the hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight (an Airbus A300) operated by Air France between the cities of Tel Aviv ...

  6. Hostage Rescue (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Hostage Rescue is an American docu-reality television series which premiered on May 14, 2024, on The CW. Episodes. No. Title ...

  7. Operation Eagle Claw - Wikipedia

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    Operation Eagle Claw was a failed operation by the United States Armed Forces ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to attempt the rescue of 53 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran on 24 April 1980. The operation, one of Delta Force 's first, [1] encountered many obstacles and failures and was subsequently ...

  8. Captain Phillips (film) - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $55 million [2] Box office. $220.6 million [3] Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical action-thriller film [4] [5] [6] directed by Paul Greengrass. Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, the film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips, an American merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates.

  9. GIGN - Wikipedia

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    The GIGN ( French: Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale pronunciation ⓘ; transl. "National Gendarmerie Intervention Group") is the elite police tactical unit of the National Gendarmerie of France. Among its missions are counterterrorism, hostage rescue, surveillance of national threats, protection of government officials ...