SYRIA/FILE: Planner of the 1972 Munich Olympics attacks dies in Syria at the age of 73

Record ID: 278485

  • Title: SYRIA/FILE: Planner of the 1972 Munich Olympics attacks dies in Syria at the age of 73
  • Date: 4th July 2010
  • Summary: YARMOUK CAMP, SYRIA (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (JULY 3, 2010) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CARRYING COFFIN OF MOHAMMED OUDEH VARIOUS OF PEOPLE MARCHING DURING FUNERAL VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CHEERING DURING FUNERAL PEOPLE CARRYING COFFIN VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LAYING COFFIN COFFIN BEING PLACED ON THE GROUND
  • Embargoed: 19th July 2010 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Obituaries
  • Reuters ID: LVAB10NXM3SHC5YTJWC2S4R3ATSR
  • Story Text: Funerals are held for the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack.
    Funerals for the key planner of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes, were held on Saturday (July 3) at the Palestinian Yarmouk Camp in Syria.
    Mohammed Oudeh, also know by his guerrilla name Abu Daoud, died of kidney failure in Damascus.
    As planner for Black September, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) splinter group, Daoud sent gunmen to abduct Israeli athletes at the 1972 Games. Two hostages were killed in the raid, another nine during a botched rescue by German police.
    Daoud blamed Israel and West German authorities for the deaths.
    Reeling from the loss of its countrymen -- particularly on what had been the staging ground for the Nazi Holocaust -- Israel retaliated with shootings, booby-trap bombings and commando operations that killed at least 10 PLO men and drove their comrades into hiding.
    Daoud himself survived a 1981 gun attack in Poland which the PLO blamed on Mossad.
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