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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 ...
Daoud claimed that the attack was carried out by a Palestinian double agent for Mossad, who was killed by the PLO ten years later. On March 1, 1982, PLO official Nabil Wadi Aranki was killed in Madrid. [26] On June 8, 1992 PLO head of intelligence Atef Bseiso was shot and killed in Paris by two gunmen with suppressed weapons. While the PLO and ...
In addition, another 16 participants have died at the Olympics from other causes; 11 of these deaths were from the Munich massacre. Several incidents related to the Olympics have caused the death of non-participants. Large numbers were killed during the Lima football riot of 1964 and the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City in 1968
The movie "September 5" focuses on the ABC Sports team tasked with covering the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics. How accurate is it? ... The hostages and terrorists had been killed in a ...
List of footballers killed during World War II; List of ice hockey players who died in wars; List of Major League Baseball players who died in wars; List of National Football League players who died in wars; List of Olympians killed in World War I; List of Olympians killed in World War II; List of Wales rugby union footballers killed in the ...
The Olympic figure skaters will appear at the Live on Ice tribute to honor victims of the D.C. plane crash. Funds will benefit the families of the 67 victims of the tragedy, which killed 28 ...
David Mark Berger (Hebrew: דיוויד מארק ברגר; May 24, 1944 – September 6, 1972) was an American and Israeli Olympic weightlifter, and one of the 11 Israeli Olympians taken hostage and killed by the Palestinian group Black September during the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Oleksandr Pielieshenko, a decorated weightlifter who represented Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Olympics, was killed while defending his country in its war with Russia.