thing very deadly.
The first operation that was carried out was the assassination of the Jordan Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal. Apparently, he was gunned down while entering the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo on November 28, 1971. As if that wasn't enough, on of the assassins then knelt down and began to lap up the blood with his tongue while shouting that he belonged to the organization of Black September. This incident had really set fear into the hearts of the political leader of the Middle East.
Next, in December of the same year, they had attempted to assassinate Jordan's Ambassador to London, Zeid Al Rifai, because he had supported King Hussein's harsh punishments on the Palestinians. After that, in February 1972, they had sabotaged a West German electrical installation as well as a Dutch gas plant. Then in May of 1972, they had hijacked a Belgian Sabena airplane flying from Vienna to Tel Aviv. But it didn't end there. By far, the worst crime that Black September had commited, was the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Black September had one purpose, and that was to capture the world's attention by striking at a large target of inestimaitable value (in this case, a countries star atheletes) in a setting calculated to provide the terrorist with unparallel exposure and publicity (Hoffman, 3). What better place to do it than the Olympics, where there is always news coverage, and that day, the entire story was filmed live, by CNN.
Around the Olympic village stood a chain-link fence. It was about 6½ feet high, not topped with barbed wire, and most likely, easy to climb. Just after 4 in the morning on Sept. 5, a group of men carrying sports bags and
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