The Battle of the Palestinians

After a 17 hours stand off, darkness falling, the germans grant them an exit. Bring in two helicopters to evacuate the hostages and their captors. The choppers take to the air; at ten 30 p m they land at fust and felbrock nato base,. Here a passenger plane, a bowing seven two seven, is waiting. Ostensibly, this is their flight to egypt. But unbenounced to the gunmen, the plane's crew are disguised federal police. At the same time, the control tower is ringed with snipers. For reasons known only to themselves, the on board police decide uninaturally, to abandon their posts. Meanwhile, around the runway