Taking advantage of the empty building, the terrorists seized about 30 Nakatomi employees, including a woman who was nine months pregnant, celebrating the holiday and the deal close. The Japanese company Nakatomi Corporation, however, insisted their employees come in on Christmas Eve, a Saturday, to finish a major deal. What we do know is harrowing: the terrorists took control of Nakatomi Plaza after most companies had shut down business for the holiday weekend. Significant confusion about the nature of the attack still swirls: was it an actual terrorist attack by a group sponsored from behind the Berlin Wall on a symbol of international capitalism? Was it an elaborate robbery? Or was it an attack on the holiday by a bunch of godless communists intent on winning the nascent War on Christmas? While we may never know the true motivation of the terrorists, largely recruited from West Germans who had distinctively Hollywood tastes, the incident is relived in households every December. Though the body count is still debated today, at least a dozen local, state and federal law enforcement officials were killed, as well as two of the hostages and all of the terrorists during the 1988 seizure of Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. Thirty three years ago today, the United States was forever changed by the deadliest foreign terrorist attack on the country up to that time.
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