Terror in Black September
The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijackings
Raab, David
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BOOK SUMMARY
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
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
AUTHOR BIO
David Raab is the vice president of a private health company. When he was 17 years old, his plane was hijacked. He was separated from his mother and brothers who were traveling with him and held hostage by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in an Amman hotel for 25 days. He lives in New Jersey.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Raab does a riveting job of recounting his harrowing weeks as a hostage when his plane and three others were simultaneously hijacked in 1970."--Dr. Henry A. Kissinger "A unique book. Raab offers both a first-person account and a historical analysis of what might have been the single most politically significant terrorist event prior to September 11. The 1970 hijackings changed the course of Middle East history. There has never before been such a gripping and thoughtful recounting by the victim of a terrorist attack."--Barry Rubin, co-author of Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography, co-editor of Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East, and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs "A riveting account--part personal memoir, part first-class diplomatic history--of one of the seminal events of the modern Middle East. For scholars and students of the region, as well as for journalists and policy-makers, this is an essential work."--Michael Oren, bestselling author of Six Days of War and Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. "Black September is an extensively researched history of the events of September 1970. The author was an eyewitness to one of the four aircraft hijackings which were among the world's more serious early terrorist acts. Hundreds of passengers, including the author, were held hostage on the occasion. This book is replete with testimonisals, interviews, and recently available archived materials researched in Washington, D.C., London, Jerusalem, and Jordan. It reveals for the first time a number of little known facts surrounding the hijackings, as well as the Soviet role in the subsequent Syrian invasion of Jordan, and Jordanian and Israeli cooperation that contributed to Jordan's success in the outcome of the war. I personally participated in many events along with the leadership of Jordan and former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the time Ambassador to the U.S. I was also in touch with the author's father during his son's captivity. This work is enthusiastically recommended to all who share an interest in the Middle East and some of the origins of today's current encounter with global terrorism."--General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., former Secretary of State
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403984204
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403984203
Dewey Decimal: 327
Library of Congress: 2008275238
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 272
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