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Terror
in Black September: The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970
Hijackings (Hardcover)
On
Sunday,
September 6, 1970, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound from Europe for New York. One, a
brand new Pan Am 747, was taken to Cairo and blown up only seconds
after its passengers escaped. The attempt to hijack a second plane, an
El Al flight, was foiled and the plane landed safely in the UK. Two
other planes, one TWA and one Swissair, were directed to the desert
floor thirty-five miles northeast of Amman, Jordan, where a twenty-five
day hostage drama began. With the additional hijacking of a British
airliner, over four hundred and fifty hostages had landed in the
Jordanian desert. David Raab was on the TWA flight with his mother and
siblings but was separated from them and taken to a refugee camp and
then to an apartment in Amman where he was held hostage through a civil
war. This is his story.
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"Terror in Black September: The First Eyewitness Account of the
Infamous 1970 Hijackings"
by David Raab
Used, in good condition Hardcover w/Dust Jacket!
288 Pages, Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2007!
FIRST EDITION!
Kirkus Reviews:
A
hostage recalls his three-week ordeal in the Jordanian desert as
Western diplomacy struggled with a new kind of terrorism. In the wake
of the cataclysmic attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
many have forgotten the grim drama that took place three decades
earlier, when Palestinian guerillas hijacked three commercial airliners
on a single September day in 1970. Raab, now a healthcare executive,
was then a 17-year-old returning from a summer in Israel, heading home
to New Jersey aboard a TWA 707 jet that had departed Frankfurt for New
York. Raab relates in detail how his plane, later joined by two other
hijacked airliners from different points of origin, was taken over and
landed at dusk in the Jordanian desert. The guerillas emptied one plane
and blew it up, threatening to do the same to the jets with kidnapped
passengers aboard if their nations of origin did not cooperate and
induce Israel to release a list of Palestinians detained for prior
terrorist acts. This all happened against the background of an armed
movement by Palestinians living in Jordan to overthrow the regime of
King Hussein in the wake of his joining Egypt and Israel in a
cease-fire and peace talks. The successful conclusion of negotiations
for the release of all hostages from the hijacked airliners coincided
with the Jordanian Army's ultimate victory (with Israel's sub rosa
assistance) against the guerillas. But it was a grim three weeks for
Raab and the nine other American men taken from their plane to a
refugee compound in Amman, where they were held by a rogue element
among the hijackers who thought their leaders' negotiating stance was
too conciliatory. The author cuts between the diplomatic maneuversand
the hostages sweating it out in captivity. Retrospectively instructive
on the Middle East.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Author's Note viii
Aboard a Plane in the Jordanian Desert September 11, 1970 1
"We Are All Fedayeen" Summer 1970 3
"This Is Your New Captain Speaking." Sunday, September 6 9
"Am I Leaving One Orphan or Two?" Monday, September 7 28
"We May Have to Face a Tragedy" Tuesday, September 8 48
Misery Loves Company Wednesday, September 9 63
"They Forced Me into the Grave" Thursday, September 10 78
Chaos, Confusion, and "Fantastic Tension" Friday, September 11 91
Explosions in the Desert Saturday, September 12 104
My Family Is Freed Sunday, September 13 116
Negotiations at a Standstill Monday, September 14 125
"I Just Want to Be Near My Daughter" Tuesday, September 15 131
The Eve of War Wednesday, September 16 142
"A Little Excitement" Thursday, September 17 149
An Extremely Close Call Friday, September 18 161
Hussein's Momentary Edge Saturday, September 19 168
Our Fate in the Balance Sunday, September 20 174
A Desperate Situation Monday, September 21 184
Poised to Intervene Tuesday, September 22 191
Switzerland andGermany Cave Wednesday, September 23 198
What About the Hostages? Thursday, September 24 203
European Hostages Rescued Friday, September 25 207
Our Perilous Walk to Freedom Saturday, September 26 212
Six Missing Hostages Sunday, September 27 218
Nixon and Home Monday, September 28 222
Last Six Finally Free Tuesday, September 29 227
European Capitulation and Culmination Wednesday, September 30 230
Epilogue 233
Notes 235
Bibliography and Sources 260
Index 266
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