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The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack carried out during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September, who infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage. [1] [2] [3] [4] Black September called the ...
May 24, 2021 · In what became known as the Munich Massacre, eight terrorists wearing tracksuits and carrying gym bags filled with grenades and assault rifles, breached the Olympic Village at the Summer Games in...
May 9, 2024 · The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack on Israeli Olympic team members at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich orchestrated by affiliates of the Palestinian militant group Black September. It occurred amid the specters of the 1936 Olympic Games, hosted by the Nazis, and of the 1968 Olympic Games, which also saw violence.
Sep 4, 2022 · Gunmen held members of the Israeli team hostage, eventually killing them, during the 1972 Munich Olympics. The attack was the first time a global audience had witnessed terrorism as it happened.
Nov 16, 2009 · During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and...
Jun 20, 2024 · Tragedy struck the 1972 Olympics in Munich when eight Palestinian terrorists from the militant group Black September invaded the Olympic Village on September 5 and killed two members of the Israeli team.
Television satellite technology allowed an estimated one billion people around the world to watch as tragedy unfolded at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Many of these people heard Jim McKay utter the words that informed the world that hopes for a positive outcome would not be realized.
Sep 10, 2018 · The Munich Massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games. Eight Palestinian terrorists killed two members of Israeli Olympic team and then took nine others hostage. The situation was ended by a huge gunfight that left five of the terrorists and all of the nine hostages dead.
Sep 5, 2022 · On Monday, the airfield just west of Munich was the site of a solemn German apology, the first and most important official acknowledgment of the gross mishandling of a terror attack against...
The 1972 Munich Massacre changed the Olympic Games forever and not just in regard to security. The violent politicising of humankind’s most revered sporting spectacle continues to cast a long shadow over the Olympic Movement.
