  brigada antiteroristÄ (, the counter-terrorism brigade, bat) is a tactical special operations unit of the romanian intelligence service (serviciul romÃ¢n de informaÅ£ii). ==history== the unit was established on december 15, 1977 under the name of unitatea specialÄ de luptÄ antiteroristÄ (special counter-terrorism unit, usla) as a result of the emergence of terrorist threats that were directly or indirectly aimed at romania. usla confronted attempts by members or sympathizers of different terrorist organizations to enter romania. these organizations did not limit themselves to precursory acts of preparing violent actions, but they also tried to organize terrorist attacks, the targets generally being foreign official representatives in bucharest. on may 26, 1985, two arab terrorists placed explosive devices under the cars belonging to syrian students' leaders, in the grozÄveÅti campus parking lot in bucharest. two usla officers were killed by the blast of the device while trying to defuse it. usla units were involved in the violent crackdown of anti-communist demonstrations during the december 1989 romanian revolution, first in the city of timiÅoara, then in the capital bucharest. between december 16 and december 20 usla troops secretly infiltrated among army troops (called up in timiÅoara to quell the revolt) and fired on the peaceful demonstrators."Ãccj a desecretizat jurnalul revoluÅ£iei din 1989 de la timiÅoara: securitatea a tras Ã®n manifestanÅ£i" realitatea tv, july 09, 2008 on december 21, 1989, and the following night, the usla together with the army and the securitate troops tried several times and finally succeeded in clearing out the center of bucharest of non-violent anti-communist protesters. the result of the operation was 49 dead, 463 wounded and 698 arrested.[http://www.jurnalul.ro/articole/69870/49-de-morti-463-de-raniti-698-de-arestati "49
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