The Uzi Submachine Gun by Chris McNab

Author:Chris McNab
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The UZI Submachine Gun
ISBN: 9781849089067
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2011-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

The individual whom Betser was hunting was killed in the bursts of Uzi gunfire, as were the other targets of the raid. Yet the soldiers’ – and the Uzis’ – work was not done. Just before the operation inside the apartments, a gun battle had erupted outside between security officials and other members of the Israeli team. Betser explained what he experienced as he went out into the street:

IDF paratroopers disembark from a Frelon helicopter with their Uzis. Uzis would serve on in some capacity with the IDF until the early years of the 21st century, although in conventional military service the assault rifle became dominant. (Cody Images)

I ran down the hall to the stairs, leaping from landing to landing, on our way to the street, where the firefight grew louder. Out the front door, I ducked into the shadow of a tree, scanning the intersection just as a burning Lebanese Land Rover rolled through the intersection. Straight ahead, Amiram Levine in a blonde wig looked like a crazed dancer in the middle of the intersection, his tiny powerful body swinging his Uzi back and forth from target to target. To my right Ehud [Barak] stood in the middle of the intersection doing the same. I added my own fire at the Land Rover, giving Amiram cover for him to run toward me. The Land Rover crashed to a halt against a building. But a second vehicle, a jeep full of reinforcements, came screeching into the box of fire we created at the intersection. Bursts of gunfire knocked the four passengers out of the vehicle, as our fire strafed the jeep.9

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