disinfozone/The_Info_Web
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions
The_Info_Web/40 - EVENTS/Munich Olympic Massacre.md

663 B
Raw Blame History

tags
Event
Terrorism
Germany
Israel

The Munich Olympic Massacre refers to the attack that took place during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where 11 Israel Olympic team members were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.1

In the aftermath of this massacre, a battle raged in Europe between Mossad agents and Black September, with both sides engaging in retaliatory killings.1

Footnotes

  1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War") ↩︎