Gen. Dan Shomron, who commanded the spectacular Entebbe rescue mission in July, 1976, implied today that the American hostages, today in their 135th day of captivity at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, might have been rescued by a similar operation.
Shomron, who spoke to reporters in Cairo where he is visiting as a member of an Israeli military delegation, said in reply to questions that there is virtually no hostage situation for which a solution cannot be found. He said this was true for the Teheran hostages but there were political considerations which ruled out a military operation in their case.
Shomron, commander of Israel’s southern front, was accompanied in Cairo by Gen. Yehoshua Sagy, chief of military intelligence, Gen. Moshe Nativ, head of the army’s manpower branch and Michael Shur, director general of military industries. The delegation, headed by Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zipori, is in Egypt to, fester friendship between the military establishments of the two countries.
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