5 September 1972, Munich, Olympic Village. At 4.30 a Palestinian commando approached the fence of the Olympic village. The commando was composed of Luttif Afif, group leader and negotiator. He was given the nickname “' Isa” and became famous for images on TV that portrayed with their faces covered with shoe Polish, sunglasses and a White Cap. A native of Nazareth by a Jewish mother and Palestinian father of Christian religion. Graduated in Berlin, He had worked as an engineer on the construction of the Olympic village in Munich. Yusuf Nazzal, known by the nickname “Tony”, identifiable in the photographs and filming for the cowboy hat. He had worked as a cook at the resort during the construction of the same. Afif Ahmad Hamid, known as “Paul”. Khalid Jawad, known as “Salah”. Ahmad Shiq Taha, known as “Abu Halla”. Mohammed Safadi, known as “Badran”. Adnan al-Gashei, known as “Denawi”. Jamal al-Gashei, known as “Samir”. This terrorist group was named “Black September”. The head of this movement there was Abu Dawud. Days before had brought the weapons in some bags by plane. In five suitcases were contained six Kalashnikov assault rifles, two machine guns and several magazines and in the following days other two Kalashnikov submachine guns and some hand grenades. Security evidently was not effective, It said it already’ the airport had only checked the first bag containing female underwear. At that time came from the street a group of American athletes who had spent the night in Munich. Expecting to be confronted to other athletes, the Americans helped terrorists to climb over the fence with bags containing the weapons. The terrorists raided in’ apartment housing the Israeli athletes. Nell’ Act to force the front door killed two Israelis Moshe Weinberg, coach, and Yossef Romano, specializing in weightlifting. Subsequently seized nine other athletes. At hours 4.47 a cleaning lady, just arrived at work, on hearing the shots called the police right now. Preliminary examination of the situation there was no dialogue with terrorists to explain its intentions threw him into the street the body of Moshe Weinberg. At 5.08 l’ intent of’ terrorist action was clear: two sheets of paper were thrown from the balcony on the first floor and collected by a German policeman. What was required was the liberation of 234 detainees in Israeli jails and the German Red Army faction terrorist Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, inmates in Germany. The order should have been completed within the 9.00 in the morning. Otherwise, Issa, the one who proposed it as a negotiating partner, threatened that any time spent in vain would be killed a hostage and that corpses were thrown on the street. At 8.15 the race riding planned at the Olympics were held regularly. The President of the International Olympic Committee, Avery Brundage informed of’ happened decided that the Olympics would not stop. Meanwhile had departed the negotiations. The ultimatum of terrorists underwent changes from hour to hour until 17.00 . Television stations had had plenty of time to aim their cameras on the number 31 by Connolystrasse. The media echo was enormous. The last request was a transport plane to Cairo to continue negotiations. At hours 21.00 It was a further ultimatum that was respected: two helicopters landed near the’ building in the Olympic village and transported the terrorists and hostages all’ airport of Fürstenfeldbruck. The German task force had meanwhile organized an expedition by a team of police, improvised with little enough decision about what to do. Landed all’ Issa and Tony premurarono airport to patrol the plane, not trusting. Found it empty. Fled and an agent opened fire. There was a confused firefight that lasted an hour. He was killed a German agent. Finding no way out, Issa fired its prisoners and threw a hand grenade in’ helicopter. The hostages died. Issa himself then fled but was wounded by shots of German agents. The dynamics of the second helicopter are still unclear, But even there the hostages were murdered. In the last four terrorists left alive were arrested. The 1.30 It was all over. Time after Golda Meir with Mossad staged a long revenge which resulted in all’ locating all Palestinian leaders, According to the Mossad, and its elimination in much of’ Europe.
Hector Parker
