Bloodbath in Beirut ? TWA 847 hijacking

In June 1985, Shi'ite extremists hijacked TWA 847 after takeoff from Athens, and diverted the flight to Beirut, seeking the release of Islamic extremist prisoners in Israeli jails. The hostages on the flight included 6 USN divers returning from a training exercise, 1 of whom, Robert Stethem, the terrorists bound and gagged, beat savagely, and eventually murdered, dumping his body on the tarmac. The US govt, had in response to the crisis deployed Delta Force's 2 operational sqns and SEAL Team 6 to Cyprus, together with Task Force 160 for air support and a small team of British SAS, in order to design and rehearse a possible hostage rescue op. These CT operators were later reinforced by a Ranger coy after satellite intel determined that a large contingent of heavily-armed Amal militiamen had surrounded the hijacked plane in support of the terrorists. However, the Western hostages on TWA 847 were separated from the other passengers, divided into groups of 3 or 4, and sent into various parts of Beirut to be held at different locations by the terrorists, and good intelligence became very hard to come by on the part of the CIA and their local Christian Lebanese militia allies in Beirut. Delta, the SEALs and SAS continued rehearsing at Britain's Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area on Cyprus, in the hope of being able to mount the planned hostage rescue, and at 1 point were on the verge of doing so in Sept after intel believed there were good fixes on several of the hostages, but in the end no mission was ever mounted, esp due to the State Dept's diplomatic efforts to deal with the hostage crisis, and their refusal to authorise a military operation due to any hostage rescue plans jeopardising these political efforts.

However, WI during the TWA 847 hijacking, after the terrorists had landed in Beirut, murdered their hostage, and broadcast their demands, Delta and the SEALs actually had been given authorisation to launch the op, or alternatively after the CIA had established the locations on the whereabouts of the hostages after they'd been separated and taken to secret hideaways in Beirut ? How would this hostage rescue mission have eventuated, could there simply have been a massive bloodbath on both sides, or would the chance of success have been relatively reasonable ? How much would US prestige have been impacted upon by the rescue op being actually conducted ?
 
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