You're correct that Israelis did fly in a surrogate Mercedes to mimick Admin's entourage to get past armed guards. I doubt he did much to earn very many of them and that was my point about the them being just about as meaningful; he was likely asleep when Israelis excuted a brilliant raid and recovered the hostages. Many dictators have impressive badges, medals, sashes and ribbons that they did nothing to earn, but wear so they are sporting more salad than their generals and impress their neighbors and visitors.
Of course, emperors and kings are much better. How many of these woudl you venture are more than honorary?
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