BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 30: Five German tourists recently freed from captivity in Sudan arrive at Tegel Airport on September 30, 2008 in Berlin, Germany. The five Germans were among 19 tourists abducted 11 days ago in southern Egypt and taken to Sudan, though the exact circumstances of their release remain unclear. (Photo by Carsten Koall/***** Images) 
Members of a German special unit leave a plane after arriving with five German and one Romanian tourists at Berlin's Tegel airport September 30, 2008. Eleven European tourists and eight Egyptians abducted in the Egyptian desert have been freed unharmed in an operation in which some of their kidnappers were killed, Egyptian officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY)
Two of the five Germans and a Romanian woman who spent 10 days as hostages make their way from an airplane upon arrival from Egypt at Berlin's Tegel Airport on September 30, 2008 together with and members of the German GSG9. They were part of a group of 19 hostages that also included five Italians, a Romanian and eight Egyptian drivers and tour guides seized by bandits in a lawless area of Egypt's southwestern desert on September 19. They were freed unharmed in a pre-dawn raid by Egyptian special forces on Monday, according to officials in Egypt. 
Operation: Desert Fox
In the Night of Thursday to Friday the German Federal Foreign Office decided to start the Operation Desert Fox.
Within 36 hours, 3 Planes of the Lufthansa, 6 Bundeswehr-Transall and 2 Antonov were ordered to fly 150 heavy armored GSG9 operators, Pilots from the "Bundespolizei", 14 members of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief(THW), 3 Helicopters of the Bundespolizei, 12 military vehicles, heavy equipment and a large amount of kerosine an ammo to Shark-el-Uweimat.
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