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VIDEO: Police anti-terror unit steps up preparations for hostage scenario
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Yamam, Counterterrorism 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 news roundup for July 1, 2008.

The special anti-terror unit of the Israel Police has recently expanded its drills in order to prepare security forces for an array of possible hostage-taking situations.

Drills have become more intensive and more imaginative since the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah's second-in-command. Mughniyeh was killed in Damascus in a February car blast with which Israel denies involvement. However, Hezbollah has threatened to take revenge on Jewish and Israeli targets around the world.


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n one drill, forces practice freeing hundreds of passengers from a plane hijacked by terrorists. In another, theatergoers are rescued from a terrorist siege.


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