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This was Operation Nimrod -- the storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 by the British Special Air Service in an attempt to end a siege orchestrated by the Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan, the group's name for the oil rich Iranian province of Khuzest...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thomson, Andrew (Producer), Swain, Madeleine (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, 2007.
Series:World history in video.
Subjects:
Iran. > Safārat (Great Britain) > Siege, 1980.
Aircraft accidents > Spain > Palomares.
Nuclear accidents > Spain > Palomares.
Pollution.
Ships.
London (England)
Palomares (Spain)
Environmental Pollution
Ships
Navires.
Aircraft accidents.
Nuclear accidents.
England > London.
Spain > Palomares.
1980
Environment
Documentary
Alexander Street Video.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Documentaires télévisés.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:This was Operation Nimrod -- the storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 by the British Special Air Service in an attempt to end a siege orchestrated by the Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan, the group's name for the oil rich Iranian province of Khuzestan. Palomares, Spain, January 1966: Palomares is a small Spanish fishing village in east Andalusia. On the 17th January 1966 it became the focus of global attention when a B52 bomber of the US Air Force Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker while refueling nine and a half thousand meters above the Mediterranean Sea.
Item Description:Previously released on DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011).
Physical Description:1 online resource (6 min.).