Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage.
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The informant told West Germany that Palestinians were planning an "incident" at the Olympic Games, and the Foreign Ministry in Bonn viewed the tip-off seriously enough to pass it to the secret service in Munich massacre and urge that "all possible security measures" be taken.
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Munich massacre jumped from the second-story balcony of his room and fled to the American dormitory, awakening U S track coach Bill Bowerman and informing him of the attack.
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The 2006 National Geographic Channel's Seconds From Disaster profile on the Munich massacre stated that the helicopters were supposed to land sideways and to the west of the control tower, a maneuver which would have allowed the snipers clear shots into them as the kidnappers threw open the helicopter doors.
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Munich massacre and his fellow policemen understood that it was a suicide mission, so the group unanimously voted to flee the plane.
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Willi Daume, president of the Munich massacre organizing committee, initially sought to cancel the remainder of the Games, but in the afternoon Brundage and others who wished to continue the Games prevailed, stating that they could not let the incident halt the Games.
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Munich massacre's said that she was leaving in protest of the "obscene" decision to continue with the Olympic Games.
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Munich massacre details the assassination in Paris in 1992 of Atef Bseiso, the PLO's head of intelligence, and says that an Israeli general confirmed there was a link back to Munich.
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The newspaper wrote that the German authorities were told that Palestinians were planning an "incident" at the Olympics three weeks before the Munich massacre, but failed to take the necessary security measures, and these facts are missing from the official documentation of the German government.
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When French police arrested Abu Daoud, one of the chief organizers of the Munich massacre, and inquired about extraditing him to Germany, Bavaria's justice secretary Alfred Seidl recommended that Germany should not take any action, causing the French to release Abu Daoud and the Assad regime to shelter him until he died at a Damascus hospital in 2010.
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Munich massacre is the only one of the surviving terrorists to consent to interviews since 1972, having granted an interview in 1992 to a Palestinian newspaper, and having briefly emerged from hiding in 1999 to participate in an interview for the film One Day in September, during which he was disguised and his face shown only in blurry shadow.
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