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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 ...
2020 Nigeria hostage rescue. 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 ...
Entebbe [3] (titled 7 Days in Entebbe in the U.S.) is a 2018 action thriller film [2] directed by José Padilha and written by Gregory Burke. The film recounts the story of the Entebbe raid, a 1976 counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation, and stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl. It was released in the United States on 16 March 2018 and in ...
In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The GIGN is sent on the spot, where after 30 hours of tension a rescue operation is organized. Cast. Alban Lenoir as André Gerval; Olga Kurylenko as Jane Andersen; Sébastien Lalanne as Pierre Cazeneuve; David Murgia as Patrice Lorca; Michaël Abiteboul as ...
United States. Language. English. S.W.A.T.: Firefight is a 2011 American direct-to-DVD action crime film directed by Benny Boom. It is a sequel to the 2003 film S.W.A.T., based on the 1975 S.W.A.T. television series. Despite its name, the film does not feature any of the original cast nor are there any mentions of the previous film.
The FBI Hostage Rescue Team delivered 40-millimetre (1.6 in) Ferret brand CS gas rounds via M79 grenade launchers. Very early in the morning, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team fired two military M651 CS gas rounds at the Branch Davidian construction site. Around mid-morning, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team began to run low on 40 mm Ferret CS rounds and ...
French. Budget. $11.2 million [3] Box office. $3.4 million [4] Forces spéciales (English: Special Forces) is a 2011 French war adventure film directed by Stéphane Rybojad and starring Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou, Denis Ménochet, Benoît Magimel, Mehdi Nebbou, and Tchéky Karyo. [5] Filmed on location in France, Djibouti, and Tajikistan, the ...
Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi (born June 9, 1954) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) sniper and former United States Army officer who was involved in the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and 1993 Waco siege. In 1997, Horiuchi was charged with manslaughter for killing Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge; the charges ...