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Operation Thunderbolt
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Based on the real-life incidents at Entebbe, Operation Thunderbolt takes off at lightning speed to bring the riveting story of the ultimate fight for freedom to the screen. A cinematic classic in Israel, Operation Thunderbolt was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. This special DVD edition ... includes the award winner documentary "Raid on Entebbe" featuring on-camera the training of the forces, headquarter briefings and classified footage following by interviews with top political leaders and military commanders.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq - Operation Marne Thunderbolt continued relentless pursuit of the enemy by attacking extremists operating south of Baghdad. On Jan. 16, 10,000 pounds of munitions were dropped on bunkers in Arab Jabour used by al-Qaeda in Iraq as training sites for new recruits.
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The operation was called Operation Thunderbolt (or Operation Thunderball) by the Israeli military operatives who planned and carried it out. It was retroactively renamed Operation Yonatan after the raid commander, Colonel Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, the only Israeli soldier to die in the raid and the elder brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, who would later become Israel's Prime Minister.
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Operation Thunderbolt starts off with the two heroes walking down main road into the country to face an endless onslaught of Arab terrorists in this move-into-the-screen, 3-D stage. These quite happily blast away and throw grenades at the would-be rescuers, draining energy with each hit.
Roy Adams, the star of Operation Wolf is back in the firing line in Operation Thunderbolt. And this time he's brought a friend - name of Hardy Jones - and together they're after a bunch of terrorists who've hijacked a commercial transport DC.20 and are holding the passengera hostage. They're demanding the immediate release of 23 comrades, or in ten hours the hostages die.
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"Operation Thunderbolt", which later came to be known as "Operation Jonathan", lit the world's imagination and left it in awe of Israel's daring military initiative. All of the terrorists, as well as tens of Ugandan troops were killed, and the dictator Idi Amin's air force was blown to smithereens on the ground.
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