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The radio signal sent back by the cruise ship Achille Lauren shocked the world.

Terrorists hijacked a cruise ship, hoping that Israel would agree to their request!

Upon receiving this news, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Arafat, was the first to react.This kind of behavior is an behavior that must be condemned by the whole world. No matter at any time, maliciously attacking civilian targets, including taking innocent civilians as hostages to threaten the government of a certain country, is a terrorist act. In this regard, Allah Fat is very clear.

Doing so will be opposed by the whole world. It is not helping Palestine at all, but only harming Palestine, making Palestine even more isolated from the world.In particular, there were not many Jews on the cruise ship they hijacked. Did they do this to internationalize the Palestinian issue?These idiots!

Arafat issued a speech 15 minutes after receiving the news, strongly condemning this atrocity. Kidnapping of civilians as hostages should never happen. I hope these armed men can understand the situation and stop Proceeding from the overall situation, lay down your arms and surrender, release all hostages unconditionally, and declare that the PLO has nothing to do with this incident.

Half an hour after Arafat's speech, various Palestinian armed groups such as the "Mínzhǔ Front for the Liberation of Palestine" and the "Palestine Liberation Front" stated that their organizations had nothing to do with this incident and demanded the immediate release of the hostages.

The terrorists are Palestinians, but they are definitely not planned by any organization in Palestine, and have nothing to do with them!

Subsequently, Egypt, as the host, also issued a statement. After all, the ship was hijacked in Egyptian waters, and Egypt was also responsible.

The spokesperson of the Egyptian Ministry of Defense severely condemned the hijacking of the ship and hoped that this tragedy would end as soon as possible without bloodshed.And, in the end, he also said that the realization of a just and comprehensive peace in the region is the best guarantee to end all violence and counter-violence.

Egypt does not intend to use force, but only hopes to put enough pressure on the terrorists to make them recognize the situation and surrender voluntarily.

However, the other two countries do not think so.

One of them is Italy.

Palestinians are mad dogs!These are the original words of Prime Minister Clarke of Italy. If you want Israel to release the hostages, then just hijack the Israeli ship. Why hijack the Italian cruise ship!

However, since Italy has been bullied, Italy will never let the terrorists go. If Israel rejects the terrorists' proposal, and if the terrorists dare to attack the hostages, then Italy will use Force, rescue the hostages!

Although Italy is not a very powerful country in Europe, it was also one of the three members of the former Axis powers, and it also has a strong sense of national glory.

The only weakness is that until now, all Italian troops, including special forces, have not been specially trained in anti-terrorist attacks, because now they are still training for large-scale wars, but in later generations, when large-scale When large-scale wars are no longer possible, terrorist attacks have become a test they have to face.

At this point, Qusay is the most forward-looking. His special forces have already started anti-terrorist training.

Even so, Italy cannot show weakness!After urgent consultations, when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a severe condemnation, demanding that the terrorists must release the hostages unconditionally, Defense Minister Spadolini has ordered the troops stationed in Sicily to enter "first-level combat readiness."They will use force when necessary!

And another country that was touched even more is the United States!

After learning that the Achille was hijacked, the United States held an emergency meeting because there were twelve Americans on board.

"Now, the cruise ship in Italy has been hijacked. This is a vicious incident. We need to adopt a correct attitude to deal with it. We must not allow this kind of terrorist action to spread." Secretary of State George said.

The United States already has a deep understanding of this kind of hostage-taking. From the hostage incident at the Iranian embassy to the civil aviation airliner, Americans always suffer victims in every incident!

The first incident, because the United States did not handle it in time, led to President Carter's final resignation. The second time, the United States quickly took action, but McFarland still completed the task with the help of the Iraqis. This time, how should the United States deal with it?

"Has the hijacker's identity been investigated?" President Reagan asked.

"Egypt is very cooperative. We investigated the information of all passengers on the cruise ship. Among them, there are four Palestinians who are the most suspicious. They are the main force of this terrorist attack." William said.

"Which Palestinian armed group are they from?" Bush asked.This kind of incident cannot be done by a few ordinary Palestinians. Therefore, there must be a strict organization behind them. Could it be Arafat?

"We have compared them and confirmed that they do not belong to any existing organization in Palestine." William said, "However, you also know that the Palestine issue is very complicated. There are five or six large organizations. There are many small armed groups. They may not belong to an existing organization in Palestine, but may be a newly established organization. In particular, their main purpose of this operation is to let the Israeli zhèngfǔ release Rantisi , we suspect that Rantici may have secretly joined a newly created organization."

This was completely a mistake. Rantisi was pushed out because he was a leader of demonstrations held by Israel, and Israel did not know that Rantisi was preparing to have a fight with Sheikh Ai. A total of seven people including Ahmad Yassin jointly founded the "Islamic Resistance Movement (also known as Hamas in later generations)".

The evidence is conclusive, and the other party has admitted it by himself, so it must be a Palestinian!

"This time, we need to use our own special forces to rescue our hostages! Solve this crisis." Defense Secretary Weinberg said.

After the Delta Special Forces failed to rescue the Iranian hostages last time, it has always been a shame for them, so they started to conduct this kind of training. Now, five years have passed, the Delta Special Forces has formed a series of plans, can be used to solve this problem.

They need to use a successful action to wash away the original shame!

"Order our two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea to approach the coastline of Egypt. We need to use force to solve the problem at a critical time." President Reagan said: "Our special forces are ready to go."

Although there is no plan to use force to solve the problem, it is still necessary to make such preparations, which can come in handy at critical times.

The United States will never bow to terrorists!This is the consistent style of the United States. No matter what the final real action is, at least it has to make enough superficial work.

"This time, it depends on Israel's attitude. If Israel can release those prisoners, maybe the incident can be resolved smoothly." Secretary of State George continued.

After he said this, everyone knew what George really meant.

In the Middle East, the existence of Israel is to restrain the surrounding Arab countries. The current facts have proved that Arab countries are the birthplace of terrorists. The existence of Israel is very necessary for the United States. So, does the United States need to change its attitude towards Israel?

This incident made them realize that the United States' Middle East policy should be firm and unshakable. For the Middle East, the United States needs checks and balances.

However, Israel planted spies in the United States. If this incident passed like this and the United States resumed various exports to Israel, then the punishment would be too light, wouldn't it?Everyone knows that this incident will eventually pass, and the United States and Israel will resume their previous relations. After all, this is determined by the interests of the two countries. However, at this time, they all think that it will be at least a year later .

Now, less than a month.

"Yes, we should look at the attitude of Israel, but we also need to be prepared. We only believe in our own strength." President Reagan finally said.

President Reagan's words have many meanings, and the answer he has given up to now is still ambiguous.

Everything depends on how Israel does it. If Israel does well enough and publicizes enough, it can still offset the recent bad influence. decision making.

Qusay was reviewing documents in his office when he saw Yourid hurried in and said, "Your Excellency, a major event happened in Egypt. An Italian cruise ship was captured shortly after departing from Alexandria, Egypt. Four Palestinian militants hijacked the ship, took more than 400 civilians on board as hostages, and threatened the Israeli authorities to release a group of Palestinians detained."

Qu Sai's face changed: "Is it the Achille-Lauren?"

"President, do you know everything?" Yurid was very surprised.

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Of course Qusay knew that the cruise ship Achille was hijacked, which was a very big event in later generations. In October 85, four unidentified armed men hijacked the cruise ship. The hijackers demanded that the cruise ship sail to The Syrian port of Tartus asked Syria to mediate and let Israel release the [-] Palestinians imprisoned by it. If Israel refused, they would blow up the cruise ship.Syria rejected the request of the hijackers, and Italy also stated that it is in contact with the countries concerned and will do its best to end the crisis.Two days later in the afternoon, four ship hijackers went ashore in Port Said and surrendered to the Egyptian government.Except for an American tourist who was killed on board, the remaining tourists returned home by plane in two groups.The tourist who was killed was a Jewish-American named Leon Klinghofer.

This incident had a great impact on the world, allowing scholars to once again see the unstable situation in the Middle East and the power of terrorist actions. All countries in the world have adopted a strong skeptical attitude towards Palestine, although Arafat did not This action was not planned and had nothing to do with it, but it was still resented by all parties, and the United States increased its support for Israel.

After this incident, the helpless Palestinians found a new way to deal with Israel, which is terrorist attacks. This kind of action against civilians is strongly condemned no matter when it is.It is to arouse international outrage.

Qusai has already begun to prepare for the arrangement so that this incident will never happen again. However, with his crossing, the history of the Middle East has changed. Now, only in June, the incident of hijacking the tanker has already occurred!Therefore, when Yurid reported, Qusay already had an ominous premonition, and it turned out to be exactly the same as what he guessed!

The history is still surprisingly similar. The Achille was hijacked, and the hijacked were still Palestinians. However, Qusay wanted to rewrite this result!

Historically, after the ship hijackers landed on the land of Egypt, they left by plane. During the departure process, the plane was intercepted by US Navy fighter planes and landed in Sicily, Italy. Italian soldiers and American soldiers had an incident at the airport. Conflict, arguing over who should deal with the ship hijackers, and finally, the ship hijackers were imprisoned in Italy.

As for who the ship hijackers were, and whether they were still the Palestinians in history, Qusay was skeptical, because, in later generations, it was because in 85, Israel airstrikes the headquarters of the PLO in Tunisia , Arafat was almost killed. Afterwards, the Palestinians took similar extreme actions. However, the PLO is still in Lebanon, and the Israeli Air Force is not capable of long-distance raids. After four aerial refuelings, it arrived The Tunisian headquarters went to air strikes, so Qusay even guessed that this attack might not happen at all.

But now, the incident has happened prematurely.

So, are those people in history who hijacked this ship?I'm afraid it's all different. They don't need to carry out such a brain-dead operation under this situation. However, this operation will bring opportunities to Israel. Maybe the United States will realize that supporting It is necessary to list in color!

In a very short period of time, Qusay has already figured out the stakes. This is a challenge to the existing order in the Middle East. You must know that terrorist attacks have always resulted in gang fights from the international community. If the final planner of this operation points to Arafat, I am afraid that Palestine will be treated brutally by Western countries.

What is Iraq's role in this incident?That is naturally the most important role!

This ship was hijacked in Egypt. Then, at the invitation of the Egyptian government, the Iraqi special forces will conduct a successful raid to capture all the gangsters who hijacked the ship and rescue the hostages!