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Unit 777



Unit 777 (in Arabic: الوحدة 777 قتال), also known as Task Force 777, is the military Egyptian counter-terrorism unit created in 1978 due to the failure of the Egyptian army commandos action in Larnaca airport (19 February 1978) as they engaged in a severe battle with Cypriot army and police troops who attacked the commandos as they were heading to capture the terrorists who assassinated the Egyptian novelist and head of the Afro-Asian authors’ summit in Hilton Nicosia. Unit 777 was developed with support from the United Kingdom's SAS and United States Special Forces.



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