Counter Force: The Brotherhood of Arms

The massacre of eleven Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympic Games demonstrated to the world how terrorists could hold governments hostage at gun point. Countries around the world responded with the creation of elite counter terrorist units: The Brotherhood of Arms. Ulrich Wegener, the founder of Germany's anti-terrorist force, the GSG-9, chronicles the origins of Germany's "force of last resort," and details their 1977 assault on a hijacked Lufthansa aircraft. Defending Spain from an incessant wave of terrorist attacks is the Special Operations Group (The GEO), Spain's counter-terrorist unit. Great Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) rescued hostages during the Iranian embassy siege of 1980. The program also examines operation "Acid Gambit," in which the U.S. Army's elite counter-terrorist sqaud had to rescue an imprisoned American businessman just minutes before the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama.