You'll notice that the Israelis don't have hostage situations. That's because it is known that, in their policy, all hostages are presumed to be dead. They then act accordingly.
The result? No hostage situations. If you KNOW that they are not going to negotiate with you, why bother? I suppose that the suicide bombs are used instead.
A lousy situation, but that's the way they do it. I guess that only the Islamic Radicals are willing to blow themselves up and that's why we don't have more bombings in the world.
It was my understanding that it was a narcotic gas that was used, not poison, and it was used in high concentration to knock out the terrorists before they could detonate the bombs the had planted or were carrying. There is no knowing how many would have died had those bombs gone off.

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