Friday, May 30, 2008

forces:GSG-9


When 11 Israel athletes werebrutally murdered by the Palestine terrorists at Munich during the 1972 Olympics, the West German government felt the need for a special enforcementteam for counter terrorism. Prime Minister Willy Brandtordered Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Minister of InternalAffairs to create a specific division. However, with theongoing pessimistic views of the world renownedSS unit of the Nazi Empire convinced them not togenerate a league of military personnel but theFederal Border Police instead. This unit of FederalBorder Police Officers is called the Grenzchutzgruppe(GSG-9) and is composed of 88 members. It gainedits trust by successfully freeing 91 passengers of theMogadishu flight terrorism at Lufthansa. GSG-9 wasalso requested to assist approximately 40 differentcountries such as Singapore and Saudi Arabia.It is also known that even the SAS has requestedassistance from the GSG-9 for the Iran embassyincident in Britain.






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