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Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 221Format: DVDProducers: Ilan ZivProgram: American Experience - PBSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On September 6, 1970, members of the militant Palestinian group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), hijacked four commercial airplanes. They commandeered a fifth aircraft three days later. Wanting to attract attention to the Palestinian cause and secure the release of several of their comrades, the P.F.L.P. spectacularly blew up four of the planes.
Today the commanders who planned and carried out the attack resist comparison to the terrorists who masterminded the events of September 11, 2001: members of the P.F.L.P. were not religious extremists, but secular Marxist Leninists. And of the almost 600 passengers taken hostage, none were killed.
Great documentary footage & historical interviews though the predicatable politics of PBS overall.
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