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This SAS operation was an excellent example of a preemptive antiterrorist strike by well-trained operators. One of the original members of the FBI HRT in the assault gear that was in use at the time. (Pilgrim) In December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, an act that was eventually attributed to Libyan intelligence operatives. Hezbollah had been formed in 1983 and immediately began carrying out attacks on Western interests in Lebanon. S. S. Marine barracks in Beirut in October 1983, which resulted in 241 deaths.
On December 27, 1985, the Abu Nidal Organization acting for the Libyans carried out simultaneous attacks at airports in Rome and Vienna. In September 1986, an Abu Nidal team hijacked a Pan Am plane to Pakistan where the plane was stormed by Musa Company, the antiterrorist force within Pakistan’s SSG, and the terrorists arrested. Amidst the continued acts of terrorism around the world, the USA formed the FBI HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) in 1983 to deal with terrorist incidents within the USA since Delta and Seal Team Six were precluded by law from domestic law enforcement roles.
Long before the Olympics, the Germans had ignored the potential threat and had not trained the Munich police to deal with a hostage incident. A police psychologist had warned of the likelihood of an incident that would play out much as the actual event transpired. Security at the Olympic Village was so lax that the terrorists were able to gain entry to the dormitory that would house Israeli athletes and reconnoiter it before the Olympics began. Once the hostages had been taken, negotiations were carried out incompetently and offers of assistance from the Israelis, who were considered to be the most experienced antiterrorist force in the world at the time, were ignored.