[Skooz]

I remember this from about 30 years ago, and the details are sketchy. Maybe someone here will know more about than I:

Sometime in the 1970s, some middle east terror outfit captured a Soviet operative or diplomat and attempted to hold him for ransom and demanded the Soviets pay up.

A few days later, the Soviets sent the terrorists a package with a picture of a known member of the terror outfit, along with a portion of his finger and a note saying that they would send another package every day or so, with additional body parts, unless the Soviet captive was released. A few days later, he was back in Russia.

[JewishRighter]

I was just telling my son about that story. I thought they actually sent a whole body in pieces. And my recollection is that the Soviet Union suffered very little, if any ist attacks at all after that. A brutal enemy requires a brutal response. Except for academic whackos, no one cries for the fact that we k1lled hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of German and Japanese civilians in WWII, . We won't win this thing until we wake up to this reality.

[sheik yerbouty]

It was in 1979, when Knomeini took over Iran. The Soviets were released after four days.