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On December 21, 1975, six militants attacked the meeting of OPEC leaders in Vienna, Austria; they took more than 60 hostages and killed three: an Austrian policeman, an Iraqi OPEC employee and a member of the Libyan delegation. The self-named "Arm of the Arab Revolution" group was led by Carlos the Jackal. The siege left three dead and several wounded. ==Summary== Carlos the Jackal demanded that the Austrian authorities read a communiqué about the Palestinian cause on Austrian radio and television networks every two hours. To avoid the threatened execution of a hostage every 15 minutes, the Austrian government agreed and the communiqué was broadcast as requested. Vienna Police said that 96 hostages were taken during the siege. Outside the OPEC Headquarters the attackers freed about 50 Vienna resident hostages. On December 22, the government provided the PFLP and 42 hostages with an Austrian Airlines DC-9 which flew them to Algiers, as demanded for the hostages' release. When they arrived at Algiers airport, the local government began negotiations; five oil-ministers and 31 other hostages were released, five oil ministers were kept. Ex-Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot Neville Atkinson, at that time the personal pilot for Libya's leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, flew them, including Hans-Joachim Klein, a supporter of the imprisoned Baader-Meinhof group and a member of the Revolutionary Cells, and Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, from Algiers to Tripoli, where some hostages were freed. Finally, they returned to Algiers where the last hostages were freed and some of the attackers were granted asylum. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OPEC siege」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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