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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 ...
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.
On 29 October 1972 (a Sunday), a Lufthansa Boeing 727-100 was hijacked: Flight 615 on the Damascus-Beirut-Ankara-Munich-Frankfurt route. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The aircraft had originated at Damascus International Airport in the early morning, with seven crew members but initially without any passengers.
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 ...
1972 Munich Olympics massacre: 'I will never shut up' September 4, 2022 at 7:26 AM. STORY: On September 5, 1972, Palestinian gunmen from the radical Black September ground took members of the ...
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 ...
In 1972, Afif commanded the Munich massacre attack team, which took nine members of Israel's Olympic team hostage after two others, who had offered resistance, were shot dead. Afif was the chief negotiator on behalf of the Palestinians, who were members of the Black September offshoot of Yassir Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organization .
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 ...