1. Operation Jonathan was an operation in which Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos raided an hijacked airline which was at an airport in Entebbe, Uganda. Ugandan soldiers were also at the airport and helped protect the terrorists.
2. Operation Nimrod was an operation carried out by British SAS who retook the Iranian Embassy after terrorists took it over and held 26 hostages.
3.De Punt Train hijacking occured when South Moluccan terrorists took over a train and held 80 people hostage. They train was later stormed by Dutch Marines.
4.Lufthansa 737 hijacking refers to the airliner hijaked and flown to Mogadishu before two British SAS commandos and some German GSG-9 commandos took the plane over and killed the terrorists and captured some others.
5.The hijacking of flight GA 206 was an airline that was forced to fly to Penang, Malaysia from Indonesia. Terrorists threatened to blow up a bomb on the plane but were later killed when 35 memebers of Kophasanda raided the plane.
6.The Moscow Theater Siege was an operation to rescue several hundred hostages taken by Chechen terrorists. The terrorists threatened to blow up the theater but were killed before they could.
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