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One of the first terrorist attacks to achieve global attention came in 1972 at the Munich Olympics, when Palestinian terrorists held 11 Israeli athletes hostage for two days, trying to pressure Israel into freeing captured comrades. The incident ended tragically, with all 11 Israelis murdered by their captors at the airport during a botched attempt to rescue them. The man who organized the terrorist attack, Mohammad Oudeh, told a German that he doesn't have any remorse for his acts:
A former Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla who was one of the masterminds of the 1972 terrorist attack on the Munich Olympics in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed said he "regrets nothing" about the incident.Speaking to Germany's Spiegel TV in an interview released Saturday, Mohammed Oudeh, better known as Abu Daoud, said it was up to Palestinians to "fight as long as it takes Israel to recognize our rights."
"I regret nothing," of the Munich attacks, he said, according to a transcript of the interview released ahead of its broadcast. "You can only dream that I would apologize."
Abu Daoud, as he is also known, tried to tell the Germans that they never intended on killing the Israelis, but that seems at odds with the known facts of the attack. They opened fire on them in the Olympic compound, and at the airport they had ample opportunity to release the athletes instead of shooting them point-blank while restrained. Oudeh also claimed that the people killed later by the Mossad for their complicity in the attack were all innocent. One suspects that truth and Oudeh are not exactly close company.
It does shine a different light on the Spielberg film Munich, which struggled to portray the terrorists as troubled human beings. Oudeh reminds us that Spielberg missed by a mile in his analysis.
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