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The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black September. The militants infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine other Israeli team members hostage. Those hostages ...
At the 1972 Munich Olympics, Arab terrorists took the Israeli team hostage. Former news and sports exec Sean McManus, son of ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay, looks back on that tragedy, and of ...
“September 5” walked that fine line spades as it set out to retell the story of Sept. 5, 1972, when eight Palestinian Black September terrorists took 11 Israelis hostage at the Munich Summer ...
Three of the eight terrorists that carried out the Munich massacre survived the botched German rescue attempt at Fürstenfeldbruck airbase on September 6, 1972 and were taken into German custody: Jamal Al-Gashey, Adnan Al-Gashey, and Mohammed Safady.
Afif Ahmed Hamid (d. 5 September 1972) was a Palestinian terrorist and one of eight Black September members that invaded the Israeli quarters at the Munich Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, taking hostage nine members of the Israeli Olympic delegation after killing Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover.
On Sept. 5, 1972, Munich's Summer Olympics morphed in a gut-wrenching instant from the world's biggest sports story to a tragic news day when Palestinian terrorists took hostage and later killed ...
One Day in September is a 1999 documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald examining the 5 September 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Michael Douglas provides the sparse narration throughout the film. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 72nd Academy Awards, on 26 ...
In 1972, Palestinian terrorists stormed the Olympic Village in Munich. The terrorists group, known as Black September, killed 2 Israeli athletes and took 9 hostage. The Black September group used ...