It is true that they did save it; maybe I'm just being overly nitpicky. And yeah, these days the improvised bomb part would have gotten then in huge trouble on

It is true that they did save it; maybe I'm just being overly nitpicky. And yeah, these days the improvised bomb part would have gotten then in huge trouble on its own, though I'm guessing the whole hostage situation was dealt with more lightly because of the political context of the time.