Ulrich Wegener, the police commando who led the 1977 West German raid that rescued 90 people from a Lufthansa jetliner that four militants had hijacked and flown to Somalia, died Dec. 28 in Cologne.

BERLIN (AP) - The commander of a German paramilitary unit that ended the 1977 hijacking of a plane by Palestinian militants has died. Ulrich Wegener was the first commander of the GSG-9 unit, created ...