Sunday, December 04, 2005

Munich Massacre

Drudge has a news flash about Spielberg's new film about the massacre of 12 Israeli athletes in the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, where the Palestinian terrorist group Black September . Specifically the movie focuses on the Israeli hit team, termed Operation Wrath of God, that Israeli PM Golda Meir commissioned to track down and assassinate the surviving members of Black September. Only two of the men responsible for the execution or planning of the Munich Massacre remain alive today.

A fascinating subject that can be explored in greater detail in Simon Reeve's One Day in September, or read this.