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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most daring rescues in history before we
begin we publish new content every day
so be sure to subscribe to our Channel
and ring the bell to get notified about
our latest videos for this list we’re
looking at the most dramatic rescue
missions ever carried out number 10
operation Barras in the summer of 2011
british soldiers and an interpreter were
overwhelmed and captured by the west
side boys a vicious rebel group involved
in Sierra Leone Civil War the west side
boys drugs an alcohol that’s how they
fueled their war while British
authorities managed to negotiate the
release of six captives operation brass
was put into effect after the rebels
threatened to kill the remaining
hostages with time at a premium the
Special Air Service and parachute
regiment assaulted the West Side boys
main camp and the base holding the
soldiers rescuing the hostages including
other civilians killing 25 of the rebels
and capturing many others number nine
during World War two many prisons were
built in nazi-occupied France to
forcibly elicit information from
captured French Resistance fighters in
1944 the British Royal Air Force tried
to raise the nation’s morale by
launching an air raid on a mian prison
which held over 700 prisoners
a relatively small-scale mission
operation Jericho saw a handful of
mosquito bombers destroy the prison’s
walls allowing around 250 prisoners to
escape
unfortunately the mission was far from a
complete success as many prisoners were
killed during the air strike and only a
fraction of the escapees avoided
recapture number 8 operation isotope
fueled by the conflict between Israel
and Palestine four members of the Black
September terrorist group hijacked a
Belgian passenger plane and forced its
captain to land outside tel-aviv and
demanded the release of over 300
Palestinian prisoners Raley officials
pretended to negotiate with the
hijackers while planning a rescue op
disguised as technicians sent to fix the
plane to prepare for takeoff sixteen
commandos stormed the craft killed two
of the terrorists and freed the hostages
also of great historical interest two of
the rescuers would later become Israeli
Prime Minister’s number seven operation
Solomon fleeing famine Civil War and
religious persecution in their homeland
a desperate cry for help
reveals a lost community of Jews in
Ethiopia with the government on the
brink of a violent dissolution in 1991
Ethiopia was poised to enter a period of
major political and social turbulence
fearing the worst for Ethiopian Jews
residing in the area the Israeli
government and Jewish charitable
organizations teamed up to launch a
complex emergency evacuation that lasted
36 hours tirelessly traveling back and
forth between Ethiopia and Israel
thirty-five aircrafts managed to extract
over 14,000 Ethiopians in less than two
days
the operation works at a lightning speed
aircraft barely have time to refuel
before flying on in order to facilitate
the airlift American diplomats met with
Ethiopia’s weakening government and its
acting president who eventually greenlit
the operation number six the Moscow
theater hostage crisis during the brutal
ongoing war in Chechnya at the turn of
the millennium
dozens of Chechen fighters set their
sights on Moscow’s do Broca theater and
took more than eight hundred people
hostage on Wednesday evening the venue
was packed with people enjoying the
critically acclaimed show the layout of
the building meant that any potential
rescue unit would be vulnerable to
counter-attack by the heavily armed
hostage takers but nonetheless Russian
special forces stormed the theater after
releasing a still undisclosed gas that
knocked everyone in the building out
sadly while many people were rescued
after the assault the effects of the gas
led to the death of well over a hundred
hostages number five the great raid of
1945 after Pearl Harbor during the years
of battles in the Pacific Theater in
World War two Japan’s Imperial Army took
numerous Allied soldiers prisoner as
America advanced in 1944 turning the
tide the retreating Japanese started
killing some of these POWs fearing for
the roughly 500 soldiers being held
prisoner at Cabanatuan prison camp in
the Philippines a platoon of Army
Rangers was dispatched to pull off of
fearless rescue despite the long odds
and supremely dangerous conditions the
raid went off successfully and hundreds
of captives were freed 500 men abandoned
by their country three years earlier
we’ll live to see home number for
Operation Nimrod the 6th day of the
siege in the situation inside the
embassy had deteriorated rapidly in 1980
militants supporting national
sovereignty in Iran’s who’sa Stan
province attacked the Iranian embassy in
London and successfully captured over
two dozen hostages over the course of
six days British authorities attempted
to reach a peaceful resolution
but all that changed when one of the
hostages was killed and thrown out onto
the street the counterterrorism team of
the Special Air Service invaded the
embassy including rappelling down the
side of the building and rescued all but
one of the hostages the media actually
aired the operation live which might
have backfired spectacularly if the
hostage takers had been watching on
television
number three operation magic fire 1972 s
tragic Munich Massacre led the German
government to create Glenn ships Cooper
nine the police tactical unit of the
German Federal Police which was called
into action in 1977 when Palestinian
gunmen demanding the release of batterer
Meinhof group prisoners seized a
Lufthansa 737 with almost a hundred
passengers and crew members soon after
the murder of the planes pilot the
commando stormed the plane while it was
temporarily stationed in Somalia lasting
less than 10 minutes
operation magic fire saw the gsg-9
overcome the terrorists and rescue all
the remaining hostages number two
operation shebeen de huantar in peru in
1996 the tupac amaru revolutionary
movement or M RTA invaded the Japanese
ambassador’s residence during a function
and captured many Peruvian diplomats
army officers and government officials
the building is a fortress well
protected with blast-proof doors and
windows this hostage taking lasted for
months as a direct attack would have
been suicidal partly due to the captors
booby-trapping and mining the courtyard
and building the Peruvian military built
a full-scale replica of the residence on
a military base to plan their assault
and then dug tunnels underneath the
actual ambassadorial residents to
prepare for a massive raid eventually
commandos rushed through the tunnels and
blasted up through the residences floor
killing all 14 hostage takers number one
operation Thunderbolt while many high
risk rescues after plane hijackings have
been conducted since 1976 operation
Thunderbolt also known as operation
Entebbe is probably the most famous
seeking to negotiate the release of
Palestinian militants
later supported by dictator Idi Amin’s
government members of the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine captured
and redirected an Air France plane to
Uganda’s and Tebbe Airport with over a
hundred lives still on the line the
Israeli government shipped 100 IDF
commandos to Uganda and began a daring
operation after storming the terminal
holding the hostages the airport turned
into a small warzone for 90 minutes with
the commandos eventually overwhelming
the hijackers and rescuing nearly all of
the captives do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most daring rescues in history before we
begin we publish new content every day
so be sure to subscribe to our Channel
and ring the bell to get notified about
our latest videos for this list we’re
looking at the most dramatic rescue
missions ever carried out number 10
operation Barras in the summer of 2011
british soldiers and an interpreter were
overwhelmed and captured by the west
side boys a vicious rebel group involved
in Sierra Leone Civil War the west side
boys drugs an alcohol that’s how they
fueled their war while British
authorities managed to negotiate the
release of six captives operation brass
was put into effect after the rebels
threatened to kill the remaining
hostages with time at a premium the
Special Air Service and parachute
regiment assaulted the West Side boys
main camp and the base holding the
soldiers rescuing the hostages including
other civilians killing 25 of the rebels
and capturing many others number nine
during World War two many prisons were
built in nazi-occupied France to
forcibly elicit information from
captured French Resistance fighters in
1944 the British Royal Air Force tried
to raise the nation’s morale by
launching an air raid on a mian prison
which held over 700 prisoners
a relatively small-scale mission
operation Jericho saw a handful of
mosquito bombers destroy the prison’s
walls allowing around 250 prisoners to
escape
unfortunately the mission was far from a
complete success as many prisoners were
killed during the air strike and only a
fraction of the escapees avoided
recapture number 8 operation isotope
fueled by the conflict between Israel
and Palestine four members of the Black
September terrorist group hijacked a
Belgian passenger plane and forced its
captain to land outside tel-aviv and
demanded the release of over 300
Palestinian prisoners Raley officials
pretended to negotiate with the
hijackers while planning a rescue op
disguised as technicians sent to fix the
plane to prepare for takeoff sixteen
commandos stormed the craft killed two
of the terrorists and freed the hostages
also of great historical interest two of
the rescuers would later become Israeli
Prime Minister’s number seven operation
Solomon fleeing famine Civil War and
religious persecution in their homeland
a desperate cry for help
reveals a lost community of Jews in
Ethiopia with the government on the
brink of a violent dissolution in 1991
Ethiopia was poised to enter a period of
major political and social turbulence
fearing the worst for Ethiopian Jews
residing in the area the Israeli
government and Jewish charitable
organizations teamed up to launch a
complex emergency evacuation that lasted
36 hours tirelessly traveling back and
forth between Ethiopia and Israel
thirty-five aircrafts managed to extract
over 14,000 Ethiopians in less than two
days
the operation works at a lightning speed
aircraft barely have time to refuel
before flying on in order to facilitate
the airlift American diplomats met with
Ethiopia’s weakening government and its
acting president who eventually greenlit
the operation number six the Moscow
theater hostage crisis during the brutal
ongoing war in Chechnya at the turn of
the millennium
dozens of Chechen fighters set their
sights on Moscow’s do Broca theater and
took more than eight hundred people
hostage on Wednesday evening the venue
was packed with people enjoying the
critically acclaimed show the layout of
the building meant that any potential
rescue unit would be vulnerable to
counter-attack by the heavily armed
hostage takers but nonetheless Russian
special forces stormed the theater after
releasing a still undisclosed gas that
knocked everyone in the building out
sadly while many people were rescued
after the assault the effects of the gas
led to the death of well over a hundred
hostages number five the great raid of
1945 after Pearl Harbor during the years
of battles in the Pacific Theater in
World War two Japan’s Imperial Army took
numerous Allied soldiers prisoner as
America advanced in 1944 turning the
tide the retreating Japanese started
killing some of these POWs fearing for
the roughly 500 soldiers being held
prisoner at Cabanatuan prison camp in
the Philippines a platoon of Army
Rangers was dispatched to pull off of
fearless rescue despite the long odds
and supremely dangerous conditions the
raid went off successfully and hundreds
of captives were freed 500 men abandoned
by their country three years earlier
we’ll live to see home number for
Operation Nimrod the 6th day of the
siege in the situation inside the
embassy had deteriorated rapidly in 1980
militants supporting national
sovereignty in Iran’s who’sa Stan
province attacked the Iranian embassy in
London and successfully captured over
two dozen hostages over the course of
six days British authorities attempted
to reach a peaceful resolution
but all that changed when one of the
hostages was killed and thrown out onto
the street the counterterrorism team of
the Special Air Service invaded the
embassy including rappelling down the
side of the building and rescued all but
one of the hostages the media actually
aired the operation live which might
have backfired spectacularly if the
hostage takers had been watching on
television
number three operation magic fire 1972 s
tragic Munich Massacre led the German
government to create Glenn ships Cooper
nine the police tactical unit of the
German Federal Police which was called
into action in 1977 when Palestinian
gunmen demanding the release of batterer
Meinhof group prisoners seized a
Lufthansa 737 with almost a hundred
passengers and crew members soon after
the murder of the planes pilot the
commando stormed the plane while it was
temporarily stationed in Somalia lasting
less than 10 minutes
operation magic fire saw the gsg-9
overcome the terrorists and rescue all
the remaining hostages number two
operation shebeen de huantar in peru in
1996 the tupac amaru revolutionary
movement or M RTA invaded the Japanese
ambassador’s residence during a function
and captured many Peruvian diplomats
army officers and government officials
the building is a fortress well
protected with blast-proof doors and
windows this hostage taking lasted for
months as a direct attack would have
been suicidal partly due to the captors
booby-trapping and mining the courtyard
and building the Peruvian military built
a full-scale replica of the residence on
a military base to plan their assault
and then dug tunnels underneath the
actual ambassadorial residents to
prepare for a massive raid eventually
commandos rushed through the tunnels and
blasted up through the residences floor
killing all 14 hostage takers number one
operation Thunderbolt while many high
risk rescues after plane hijackings have
been conducted since 1976 operation
Thunderbolt also known as operation
Entebbe is probably the most famous
seeking to negotiate the release of
Palestinian militants
later supported by dictator Idi Amin’s
government members of the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine captured
and redirected an Air France plane to
Uganda’s and Tebbe Airport with over a
hundred lives still on the line the
Israeli government shipped 100 IDF
commandos to Uganda and began a daring
operation after storming the terminal
holding the hostages the airport turned
into a small warzone for 90 minutes with
the commandos eventually overwhelming
the hijackers and rescuing nearly all of
the captives do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
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