Revenge Of The 1972 Munich Olympics

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color="#E5E5E5"> a billion people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> watching on</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">television what the world didn't see was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Israeli response our program reveals</font> how Israel unleashed an elite<font color="#E5E5E5"> team</font> dedicated to revenge<font color="#CCCCCC"> whatever the cost</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">join us</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as history undercover presents</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">revenge nearly every day on television</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and in newspapers we witness a blood</font> feud<font color="#E5E5E5"> between Israelis and Palestinians</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that has continued for decades</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> two</font> peoples with roots in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the same land</font> locked in an ancient<font color="#E5E5E5"> ritual of vengeance</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">an eye</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for an eye</font> [Music] it was the late 1960s when this cycle of violence began to escalate<font color="#E5E5E5"> after Israel</font> soundly defeated the Arab coalition<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> the 1967<font color="#CCCCCC"> war Palestinian militant groups</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">turned to increasingly spectacular acts</font> of terror<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> get world attention Israel</font> countered<font color="#CCCCCC"> with increasingly forceful</font> measures<font color="#E5E5E5"> against them but for both 1972</font> would<font color="#E5E5E5"> be a turning point</font> on May 5th of that year a group<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> militant Palestinians hijacked<font color="#E5E5E5"> Sabena</font> flight 571 and landed it<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the heart of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> load airport in Tel Aviv the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Savina captain relayed the terrorists</font> demands that 317 Palestinians be released from Israeli prisons or they would kill everyone on<font color="#E5E5E5"> board Israel's</font> policy was never to negotiate<font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font> terrorists<font color="#E5E5E5"> and never to back down</font> prime minister Golda Meir ordered an assault on the aircraft<font color="#E5E5E5"> led by future</font> Israeli<font color="#E5E5E5"> prime minister</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a who</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Barak</font> disguised his mechanics<font color="#CCCCCC"> Barak and his</font> teams snuck up on the plane<font color="#E5E5E5"> and stormed</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> in 90 seconds before we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stoned</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">killed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 2</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the tourists and captured</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> others as relieved passengers</font> celebrated<font color="#CCCCCC"> this successful raid Israelis</font> questioned that captured terrorists they admitted they<font color="#CCCCCC"> were members</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> new</font> Palestinian<font color="#E5E5E5"> militant group with shadowy</font> links to the Palestine Liberation <font color="#E5E5E5">Organization called Black September the</font> man who'd ordered the hijacking they said was one of its<font color="#E5E5E5"> leaders Ali Hassan</font> Salameh<font color="#E5E5E5"> only two weeks later his name</font> came<font color="#CCCCCC"> up again in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> connection with a</font> bloody massacre<font color="#CCCCCC"> that left 24 dead 78</font> wounded<font color="#E5E5E5"> at the same</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> airport</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and Israel</font> had not heard the last<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Salama</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">black September after that they realized</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they can't hijack</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israeli planes if they</font> go to Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> with somebody else's plane</font> and try to extort something there they'll be<font color="#E5E5E5"> killed so they figured that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">go somewhere else</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> somewhere the whole</font> world would<font color="#CCCCCC"> be watching the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 1972 Munich</font> Olympics [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">the crowd on their feet here</font> [Music] [Applause] these Olympic Games which opened<font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">August 26 were billed by their German</font> hosts as a<font color="#E5E5E5"> showcase for international</font> peace and<font color="#E5E5E5"> cooperation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a place where</font> politics could be set<font color="#CCCCCC"> aside and</font> individual athletes could<font color="#CCCCCC"> mingle freely</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this seemed like a good</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> idea</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the 27</font> year old fencing coach on the Israeli team<font color="#E5E5E5"> andre spitzer he even stopped to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">talk to some arab athletes on the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">lebanese delegation his wife Anki</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thought he was being naive</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I said your</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mind you know these are the Lebanese</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font> know it's dangerous<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he said no uncle</font> this<font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not dangerous this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is what the</font> Olympics are all about<font color="#CCCCCC"> that's why I'm</font> here this<font color="#E5E5E5"> I can do here I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hear there are</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">no borders that we have no enemies here</font> that's what<font color="#E5E5E5"> Spitzer thought when he made</font> what would be his last call<font color="#E5E5E5"> to his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wife</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> payphone in the Olympic Village</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">it was September</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 4th 1972 and he talked</font> very<font color="#E5E5E5"> quickly and he said 20 more if any</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">10 more fennec and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I love you and and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was it and I did not realize them</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that these were the last words that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would ever hear from him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that night</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">eight</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Palestinians in track suits and</font> ski masks broke<font color="#E5E5E5"> into the quarters of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> Israeli athletes<font color="#E5E5E5"> carrying ak-47s</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> their gym bags at<font color="#E5E5E5"> seven o'clock in the</font> morning my parents came<font color="#CCCCCC"> to my room</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> they said<font color="#CCCCCC"> to me</font> well you should know<font color="#CCCCCC"> that we just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> heard</font> on the<font color="#CCCCCC"> radio that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Arab terrorists or</font> Palestine they didn't know there were Palestinians Arab<font color="#E5E5E5"> terrorists just came</font> into<font color="#E5E5E5"> the village and they are keeping a</font> number of Israelis<font color="#CCCCCC"> hostage</font> if<font color="#E5E5E5"> I were to guess at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the moment at</font> which<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> commando organizations this</font> group is to come<font color="#E5E5E5"> from I'd be most likely</font> to<font color="#CCCCCC"> neither lien</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a group called Black</font> September<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was a reporter based in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Lebanon and if you were an American</font> reporter<font color="#E5E5E5"> working for American</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> News</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Agency and maybe you knew all the</font> characters because the Palestinians were very open<font color="#CCCCCC"> about what they were about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">many of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> things they were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> trying to</font> accomplish<font color="#E5E5E5"> and so we knew some of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> players didn't always know what they were doing<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> God knows what they were</font> going<font color="#E5E5E5"> to do it was black September and</font> they had taken<font color="#CCCCCC"> eleven</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> members</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Israeli<font color="#CCCCCC"> team hostage by the time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> police</font> arrived on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> scene they had already</font> murdered<font color="#E5E5E5"> one of them boxing coach Moshe</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Weinberg they threw his body out the</font> front door then<font color="#E5E5E5"> they issued their</font> demands the terrorists demanded the <font color="#CCCCCC">release of 234 prisoners who were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> being</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">held in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Israeli jails</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and also some who</font> are being held<font color="#E5E5E5"> abroad but Golda Meir</font> would have would have<font color="#E5E5E5"> none of it she</font> just<font color="#CCCCCC"> rejected their demands outright</font> instead Israeli prime minister Golda Meir sent two officials to Germany one of them the<font color="#E5E5E5"> head of Israeli intelligence</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Mossad</font> his name was visa<font color="#CCCCCC"> Meir he intended to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">help the Germans deal with the volatile</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">situation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at the Olympic</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Village we were</font> the first to train<font color="#E5E5E5"> with Germany although</font> it had no<font color="#E5E5E5"> anti-terrorism units wouldn't</font> accept any Israeli assistance<font color="#E5E5E5"> instead</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">local government officials tried</font> stalling the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Black September gunmen</font> until they could come<font color="#CCCCCC"> up with a way out</font> they kept the kidnappers dangling by telling them Israel was considering their demands every couple<font color="#CCCCCC"> of hours the Palestinian</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">terrorists they they set an ultimatum</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and then the ultimatum would be</font> postponed<font color="#E5E5E5"> till three o'clock</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and then it</font> would be postponed<font color="#E5E5E5"> till five o'clock so</font> it was like dying every time<font color="#CCCCCC"> a little</font> bit you<font color="#E5E5E5"> know because I'm feeling that</font> maybe now it's going to<font color="#E5E5E5"> happen by 5 p.m.</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Palestinians demanded an airplane to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">take them and their remaining hostages</font> to an unspecified<font color="#CCCCCC"> Arab country the</font> Germans agreed<font color="#E5E5E5"> counting on ambushing the</font> terrorists<font color="#E5E5E5"> at the airfield when the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">German said we should deal with it that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the German authorities transported the</font> terrorists and their hostages to the fürstenfeldbruck airfield<font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> only</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nine</font> Israelis made the trip<font color="#E5E5E5"> the terrorists</font> had killed another<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israeli athlete</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> the room I quite<font color="#CCCCCC"> frankly thought at the</font> beginning they'd work it out somehow <font color="#E5E5E5">Palestinians would get out of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">country and the Israelis would be</font> released<font color="#E5E5E5"> but when they took off first in</font> the buses underground and then the <font color="#E5E5E5">helicopters that not going to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fürstenfeldbruck I don't think any of us</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thought</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was going to end</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the way it</font> did<font color="#E5E5E5"> more that the Germans were as he'll</font> prepared as they turned out to<font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font> at the airfield<font color="#CCCCCC"> German police had set up</font> a decoy<font color="#E5E5E5"> airplane to lure the terrorists</font> into the line<font color="#CCCCCC"> of their sniper fire but</font> the Palestinians immediately realized it <font color="#E5E5E5">was a trap and it all went horribly</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">wrong it degenerated into a battle and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the hostages were in the middle of this</font> they were manacled and shackled in the in the back of the helicopters<font color="#CCCCCC"> and all</font> this time<font color="#E5E5E5"> the two Israelis who come over</font> to try<font color="#CCCCCC"> and help the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rescue operation</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">were standing there watching this and</font> the impotent really they were they were powerless to<font color="#E5E5E5"> it to do anything</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the battle had begun in a chaotic</font> gunfight<font color="#E5E5E5"> German snipers took out five</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the terrorists Zamir</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who had arrived in</font> Munich just a few hours before<font color="#CCCCCC"> watched</font> helplessly as<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Palestinian gunmen</font> before they went<font color="#E5E5E5"> down murdered the</font> Israeli athletes<font color="#E5E5E5"> shackled in a</font> helicopters<font color="#E5E5E5"> hand grenade fire to the</font> helicopters and<font color="#E5E5E5"> they and fire started in</font> immediately after the fire but<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was too</font> late 24 hours after the ordeal had begun<font color="#E5E5E5"> all</font> the Israeli<font color="#E5E5E5"> hostages</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> five of the eight</font> terrorists<font color="#E5E5E5"> and one German policeman were</font> dead three surviving terrorists were in police<font color="#E5E5E5"> custody there were 11 hostages</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">two were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> killed in their</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> room</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nine were</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">killed at the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> airport</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> tonight they're</font> all gone<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was stunning just stunning</font> and<font color="#CCCCCC"> very hard</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to believe on the</font> afternoon of September 6th the murdered athletes were<font color="#E5E5E5"> honored in a memorial</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">service in the Olympic Stadium afterward</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Anki Spitzer who'd come to Munich to</font> claim her husband's body<font color="#E5E5E5"> insisted on</font> going<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the room where her husband had</font> been<font color="#E5E5E5"> held I just looked there and I said</font> to myself<font color="#E5E5E5"> if this is where</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ombré spent</font> his last<font color="#E5E5E5"> 21 hours you know a guy who</font> really loved life<font color="#E5E5E5"> and who and who loved</font> the Olympics and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the idea behind two</font> Olympic if this is what they did<font color="#E5E5E5"> to him</font> if he<font color="#CCCCCC"> had to sit here 21 hours looking</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">at one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his teammates being tortured</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> said<font color="#E5E5E5"> somebody is going to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> pay for it</font> Golda Meir's government was going<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> make<font color="#E5E5E5"> sure a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lot of people paid for it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and in avenging Munich Israel would</font> adopt the<font color="#E5E5E5"> ways of its enemies it would</font> go beyond its borders<font color="#CCCCCC"> to neutral</font> countries bringing<font color="#E5E5E5"> terror to the</font> terrorists [Music] the murder<font color="#CCCCCC"> of 11</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israeli athletes at the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">1972 Munich</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Olympics</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had taken</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Middle</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">East violence to a new level as the</font> relatives of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Munich victims gathered</font> to bury their dead the government of Israel plotted revenge<font color="#CCCCCC"> I think it was a</font> great shock<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was a great shock because</font> it showed you what kind of lack<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> inhibition lack<font color="#E5E5E5"> of any moral</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> constraints</font> this terror had it was if it was <font color="#CCCCCC">supposed to break our morale</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it didn't</font> in Jerusalem<font color="#E5E5E5"> prime minister Golda Meir</font> told<font color="#E5E5E5"> Parliament that the Israelis would</font> go after<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> terrorists responsible and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">said we will smite them wherever they</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">may be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she called all the families</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">together</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we had seven widows and 14</font> orphans<font color="#E5E5E5"> and she promised us that anyone</font> who was<font color="#E5E5E5"> connected to this terror attack</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would be hunted down</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and would be</font> brought to justice at first<font color="#CCCCCC"> this justice looked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like</font> previous skirmishes<font color="#E5E5E5"> but on a much larger</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">scale</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> three days</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after the munich</font> attacks<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israeli Air Force launched</font> simultaneous<font color="#E5E5E5"> airstrikes on at least</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ten</font> PLO bases in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Syria and Lebanon eight</font> days<font color="#E5E5E5"> later Israeli forces destroyed more</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">than</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hundred</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and thirty houses</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> Lebanon<font color="#E5E5E5"> owned by families suspected of</font> harboring Palestinian militants hundreds of civilians<font color="#E5E5E5"> were killed but this</font> military<font color="#E5E5E5"> response didn't seem enough</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Ezreal</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wanted a more</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> targeted approach</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this time because the the attack at</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">munich was seen as such an atrocity by</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> israeli</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people and by the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> israeli</font> government<font color="#CCCCCC"> that they decided eventually</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to form an assassination squad which</font> would hunt down<font color="#E5E5E5"> and assassinate leading</font> members of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> group which was</font> responsible<font color="#E5E5E5"> for the attack and also</font> other<font color="#CCCCCC"> leading members within</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the PLO in</font> the weeks following<font color="#CCCCCC"> Munich</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Golda Meir's</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">advisors on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> terrorism gathered to devise</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">another plan for revenge</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> targeted</font> assassinations general<font color="#CCCCCC"> our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Anya Reeve</font> who died in 1994 was<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> member</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font> group<font color="#E5E5E5"> which became known as I mean</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Kingdom to be honest yes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this was</font> actually<font color="#CCCCCC"> not a typical</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> response</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not a</font> typical Israeli<font color="#E5E5E5"> response to terrorism</font> because<font color="#CCCCCC"> hitherto</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israeli response to</font> terrorism was to go after the regime that harbored the terrorists in Lebanon <font color="#E5E5E5">there was no government so to speak so</font> these<font color="#CCCCCC"> were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> didn't have at the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an</font> address of a regime<font color="#E5E5E5"> as a result to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> try</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to forget the terrorists themselves six</font> weeks after the Munich<font color="#E5E5E5"> Olympics</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mayor</font> was persuaded<font color="#CCCCCC"> by her advisors on</font> committee<font color="#E5E5E5"> X to authorize the</font> assassination campaign<font color="#E5E5E5"> they called it</font> operation wrath of<font color="#E5E5E5"> God if she</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had any</font> lingering<font color="#E5E5E5"> doubts</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they were erased</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font> events on Sunday<font color="#E5E5E5"> October 29th on that</font> day a<font color="#CCCCCC"> left Hansa Boeing 727 was hijacked</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">by two Palestinians enroute</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from</font> Damascus to<font color="#E5E5E5"> Frankfurt the hijackers</font> demanded and got<font color="#CCCCCC"> the immediate release</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of the three surviving</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Munich terrorists</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in prison in Germany the three</font> terrorists celebrated their freedom with a press conference we understand now <font color="#CCCCCC">that the Germans did</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it deal with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> Palestinians<font color="#CCCCCC"> whereby</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Stinney</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ins hijacked a Lufthansa jet and</font> held the<font color="#CCCCCC"> the passengers hostage on the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">understanding and on the condition that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the remaining three terrorists who've</font> been involved<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the Munich attack would</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> released the Israelis were outraged</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">it was clear to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> them</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that if those who</font> planned and<font color="#E5E5E5"> carried out the attack at</font> Munich were ever going<font color="#CCCCCC"> to pay for what</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they did</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> only Israel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could extract that</font> payment<font color="#E5E5E5"> operation wrath of God would be</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the instrument of its revenge that was</font> the first time I think<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the history</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> maybe in the history of the world</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the state decided to pursue a</font> policy<font color="#E5E5E5"> of personal killing in a</font> systematic way because launching an assassination campaign<font color="#CCCCCC"> is is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> completely illegal under</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">international law I mean</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">nothing really to justify in that sense</font> but Israel was a young<font color="#CCCCCC"> country many of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the leading members of the government</font> had<font color="#CCCCCC"> been involved</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in in groups that we</font> now describe<font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> being terrorists</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so they</font> had this<font color="#E5E5E5"> sort of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> guerilla warfare</font> mentality and they applied that<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font> formation of operation wrath of God as it<font color="#E5E5E5"> became</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> known committee</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Ex drafted a</font> secret hit list of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Black September</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">leaders it's still not known precisely</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">how</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> many names</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> list</font> some reports say as many<font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 20 and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> committee was headed by<font color="#E5E5E5"> the prime</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">minister Golda Meir defense minister</font> Moshe Dayan<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Foreign Minister</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Egan</font> alone<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the committee acted</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> basically</font> as a<font color="#CCCCCC"> tribunal</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as a judiciary tribunal</font> like a court the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israeli intelligence</font> agency Mossad<font color="#E5E5E5"> supplied the committee</font> with dossiers on the members of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Black</font> September number one on the list<font color="#E5E5E5"> was Ali Hassan</font> Salameh<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> really a protege of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Yasser Arafat</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> yes I refer publicly</font> declared him<font color="#CCCCCC"> to be his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> son in inverted</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">commas and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he was really something of an</font> aristocratic hero<font color="#E5E5E5"> within the Palestinian</font> among the Palestinian people<font color="#CCCCCC"> to Mossad</font> salamé was the operations chief of<font color="#CCCCCC"> black</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">September and the mastermind</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> behind</font> Munich he was<font color="#CCCCCC"> also the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> man behind the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">may 1972 Sabena hijacking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and a massacre</font> at Tel Aviv's load<font color="#CCCCCC"> Airport that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> same</font> month<font color="#E5E5E5"> for all his bloody activities</font> Mossad dubbed him the<font color="#CCCCCC"> red prince</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> now</font> Mossad had a<font color="#E5E5E5"> message for him and the</font> other<font color="#E5E5E5"> members</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of Black September that if</font> you kill<font color="#E5E5E5"> us</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> if you dare attacking</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israelis when we go</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after you even to</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> end of the world we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> will find</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">make you find the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shelter</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you may escape</font> but<font color="#CCCCCC"> eventually the long arm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of Israel</font> [Music] within weeks<font color="#E5E5E5"> of Munich operation wrath</font> of God<font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> underway agents</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of Israel's</font> revenge fanned out across Europe and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Middle East their first victims would be</font> targets of<font color="#E5E5E5"> opportunity</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wherever they</font> could be found<font color="#E5E5E5"> avenging Munich began in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">mid-october 1972 in Rome</font> six weeks<font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 11 Israeli athletes were</font> killed at<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Olympics</font> the first target<font color="#E5E5E5"> the secret</font> assassination<font color="#E5E5E5"> squad could locate was a</font> man they believe<font color="#CCCCCC"> to be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Black</font> September operative in Rome who may have helped<font color="#E5E5E5"> set up the Munich attack</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his name</font> was wilds fighter<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he worked as a</font> translator<font color="#E5E5E5"> at the Libyan embassy he had</font> no<font color="#E5E5E5"> idea the Israelis were coming for him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he ate</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dinner that night with a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> friend</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> walked home to his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> apartment block</font> he stopped off to<font color="#CCCCCC"> buy some groceries</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">made a couple of phone calls and then</font> walked into the the entrance<font color="#E5E5E5"> hall where</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he lived</font> went to Israeli agents emerged from shadows<font color="#E5E5E5"> and shot</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him with them small</font> caliber pistols<font color="#E5E5E5"> over the next six months</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">agents of Mossad hunted down and killed</font> three<font color="#E5E5E5"> other Palestinians in European</font> cities<font color="#E5E5E5"> all of whom Mossad believed had</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">been either directly or indirectly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">involved</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Black September attack</font> on Munich part<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the brief that was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">given to the leaders of the</font> assassination campaign was that<font color="#CCCCCC"> they had</font> to<font color="#CCCCCC"> UM turn the terror on the terrorists</font> they came up<font color="#CCCCCC"> with quite intricate</font> sophisticated ways of<font color="#E5E5E5"> killing people</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">including bombs that were detonated by</font> telephone calls they put<font color="#CCCCCC"> landmines under</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> car and under</font> somebody's car seat they blew people up in<font color="#E5E5E5"> their hotel bed the PLO at that time</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">all who have relationship to the PLO and</font> their offices<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be on the alert because</font> they're expecting<font color="#E5E5E5"> that Israel what carry</font> such terrorist operation although Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> was suspected of being</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">behind</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> these assassinations</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there was no</font> evidence however<font color="#E5E5E5"> someone would make</font> certain that the widows of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the athletes</font> knew what was<font color="#E5E5E5"> going on I would get the</font> phone call<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I had no idea</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> and they<font color="#E5E5E5"> would say listen</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the news at</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">10</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> o'clock</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">why because you know and luck and then I</font> would turn on<font color="#CCCCCC"> the radio</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> listen to the</font> news<font color="#E5E5E5"> and then I would hear you know that</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> guy or this person who was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">connected to to the Munich Massacre you</font> know was being eliminated liquidated assassinated whatever you want to call <font color="#E5E5E5">it and I would take it as a as a fact</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">by spring 1973 Israel planned a mission</font> that would strike fear in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> heart of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Black September and the PLO Beirut</font> at the time<font color="#E5E5E5"> of course</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Beirut wasn't like</font> Europe it was an armed city where they <font color="#CCCCCC">would have been quite prepared to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> attack</font> and kill any Israelis any Israeli soldiers<font color="#E5E5E5"> that they saw but these</font> soldiers would<font color="#CCCCCC"> not be seen the gunmen on</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the other hits had been Mossad agents</font> but for<font color="#E5E5E5"> this operation Mossad would</font> enlist an elite Israeli special force known simply as the<font color="#CCCCCC"> unit</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> yahood barach</font> was in charge we<font color="#E5E5E5"> can do whatever we want</font> or whatever<font color="#CCCCCC"> we we need</font> there's the scalpel<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there's a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">sledgehammer the sledgehammer 'he's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">screws missiles and the air force coming</font> in and laying<font color="#E5E5E5"> down carpet of bombs the</font> the unit is a scalpel<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this operation</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was definitely a surgical strike Mossad</font> learned that three important targets lived in the same apartment block on the roof<font color="#CCCCCC"> er done</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> these weren't the young men</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> had killed the Israelis at Munich</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but the men</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> who had issued their orders</font> they were the minds behind the operation <font color="#E5E5E5">they these</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people were senior operators</font> of the PLO<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> black September they</font> were the planners<font color="#CCCCCC"> they were the military</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">commanders and they were very</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> close</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> Yasser Arafat they were black</font> September's<font color="#E5E5E5"> Kamal Adwan PLO spokesman</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Kamal Nasser and most importantly Black</font> September chief strategist<font color="#E5E5E5"> Yusuf Nizam</font> I heard<font color="#CCCCCC"> Barak turned up at the the</font> commandos<font color="#E5E5E5"> base and slapped down on the</font> table<font color="#CCCCCC"> the three photographs of the</font> individuals they were going to target <font color="#E5E5E5">and people who were there have said this</font> murmur of anticipation ran through the room<font color="#E5E5E5"> I told him these</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> other</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> guys they</font> try<font color="#E5E5E5"> to photograph their faces we are</font> going to go<font color="#E5E5E5"> and find</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> them as the unit</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">trained to go out and find them</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> realized<font color="#E5E5E5"> that a gang of young men moving</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">through the streets of Beirut might look</font> threatening<font color="#E5E5E5"> they decided to disguise</font> themselves as couples on a date<font color="#CCCCCC"> Barack</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was a brunette</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> long</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> kind of widening</font> widening thousand elegant<font color="#E5E5E5"> is a kid but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with a brunette hair and everything</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> place<font color="#E5E5E5"> the idea is show the people</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">something very unthreatening they won't</font> even<font color="#E5E5E5"> notice it and you can walk</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> right by</font> even a police<font color="#E5E5E5"> officer as they did in</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> case in the early</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hours of April</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">10th 1973 the unit anchored their</font> speedboats off the coast of Lebanon<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> rode<font color="#E5E5E5"> zodiac inflatables ashore they were</font> met by waiting<font color="#E5E5E5"> cars with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Mossad</font> agents<font color="#E5E5E5"> behind the wheel and then they</font> drove them through Beirut through the city through traffic the agents<font color="#CCCCCC"> from the Mossad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had found out</font> where they lived and had even<font color="#E5E5E5"> gotten</font> blueprints of the houses<font color="#E5E5E5"> the apartment</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the apartments where</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they were living</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">right outside of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Beirut now the original</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">planning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that we had is that everyone</font> will reach the door of the apartment <font color="#CCCCCC">we'll put on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it certainly spatially</font> explosive charge that we<font color="#CCCCCC"> shaped to a I</font> put<font color="#CCCCCC"> dope</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I will count five four</font> three two<font color="#E5E5E5"> one zero and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> everyone will</font> explode together and we will<font color="#E5E5E5"> enter</font> simultaneously<font color="#E5E5E5"> at one forty two in the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">morning three Israeli teams were ready</font> at the doors<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the three apartments</font> within<font color="#CCCCCC"> a few seconds that was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> between</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">10:00</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 12:00 commanders in our</font> apartment<font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were shooting all over</font> the place<font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the walls at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> doors back</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> those days</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when gunmen burst into</font> their bedroom use of measures wife threw her body in<font color="#E5E5E5"> front of her husband's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> die I</font> still<font color="#E5E5E5"> hear very vividly my father said</font> you<font color="#CCCCCC"> have killed there it kills their you</font> dogs then he fell maybe 30 to<font color="#E5E5E5"> 40 seconds</font> after my mother<font color="#CCCCCC"> fell to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the ground</font> within minutes<font color="#CCCCCC"> all three targets were</font> dead<font color="#E5E5E5"> the hit teams ran into the street</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and into</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> firefight with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Lebanese</font> police it was a very<font color="#CCCCCC"> dramatic scene</font> because he had these Israeli commandos who were dressed<font color="#E5E5E5"> in in women's clothing</font> with<font color="#E5E5E5"> blonde wigs and so on and in</font> wearing dresses were<font color="#E5E5E5"> firing with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">submachine guns</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> these police officers</font> while barracks teams sped back to the <font color="#E5E5E5">rendezvous point</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> other Israeli teams</font> were creating diversions<font color="#E5E5E5"> elsewhere in</font> Beirut<font color="#E5E5E5"> one blew up the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> headquarters of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the popular Democratic Front for the</font> Liberation of Palestine other backup <font color="#E5E5E5">teams made sure no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> one followed them</font> it took us the<font color="#CCCCCC"> whole operation</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from the</font> time<font color="#E5E5E5"> we lend it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the time we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were back</font> in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the system 30 minutes by the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> time the</font> Sun rose<font color="#CCCCCC"> over Beirut</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Baraka and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his men</font> were<font color="#CCCCCC"> already</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back in Israel in their</font> wake<font color="#CCCCCC"> they left devastation</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelis</font> assassinated three Palestinian leaders who all lived in<font color="#E5E5E5"> this one apartment</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">building</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> altogether they killed or</font> injured as many as<font color="#E5E5E5"> 40 Lebanese and</font> Palestinians<font color="#CCCCCC"> I remember the town was in</font> shock<font color="#CCCCCC"> when they invaded Beirut itself</font> and in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> dead of night just stitch</font> these guys in their<font color="#CCCCCC"> apartments a sense</font> of vulnerability was<font color="#CCCCCC"> modest but the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Israelis could do what they want</font> if the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Tehri can come to Bangkok</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> type to Paris and to Rome<font color="#CCCCCC"> there is no</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">reason</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to believe that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not able</font> to come<font color="#CCCCCC"> to any place in the world</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font> now<font color="#E5E5E5"> clear</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the world that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel was</font> on a path of vengeance<font color="#CCCCCC"> what wasn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> known</font> of course<font color="#E5E5E5"> was who would be the next</font> target in the years since<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Munich Olympic</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">massacre Israel's operation wrath of God</font> had<font color="#E5E5E5"> taken out at least nine targets on</font> Golda Meir's hit list<font color="#CCCCCC"> none of them the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">three terrorists who had survived Munich</font> yet<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mossad was after bigger game</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Palestinian</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> leaders who they believed</font> were<font color="#E5E5E5"> directly or indirectly involved in</font> planning<font color="#E5E5E5"> Munich especially those who</font> might plan and execute another attack in those days Mossad was admired for<font color="#E5E5E5"> its</font> ability<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> get the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> job done and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> made sure<font color="#CCCCCC"> they did the right thing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> which</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> another thing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that people respected</font> them for<font color="#CCCCCC"> that they rarely have ever made</font> mistakes because<font color="#CCCCCC"> they were careful yet</font> the most important target<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Israeli</font> hit teams and the most elusive<font color="#E5E5E5"> was still</font> at large Ali Hassan Salameh<font color="#CCCCCC"> also known</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as the Red</font> Prince he was<font color="#CCCCCC"> the man</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israeli</font> intelligence believed to be the architect of Munich<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelis were so</font> keen to<font color="#E5E5E5"> assassinate Ali Hassan Salameh</font> that they searched all<font color="#CCCCCC"> over Europe for</font> him<font color="#E5E5E5"> the lecture where he was based or</font> even<font color="#E5E5E5"> really</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sure what he looked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like at</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very cautious and</font> careful<font color="#E5E5E5"> and moved from one place</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">another never never stayed at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the same</font> place<font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was a very very difficult time</font> [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">Mossad agents would pick up traces</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> salami throughout Europe<font color="#E5E5E5"> but then the</font> leads would run cold <font color="#E5E5E5">but on July 14 1973 Mossad got a tip</font> that a low-level PLO courier who had been traveling through Scandinavia had a scheduled rendezvous with the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Red Prince</font> agents followed the courier to<font color="#CCCCCC"> a tiny</font> town<font color="#CCCCCC"> in Norway</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> named Lillehammer</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> hundred and<font color="#E5E5E5"> ten miles north of Oslo</font> five days after Mossad received the information<font color="#CCCCCC"> 14</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> members of an Israeli hit</font> team converged on the tiny village<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Israeli agents had false identities false papers<font color="#CCCCCC"> they had cars</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> safe houses</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and of course they had two assassins</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who</font> were to actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> conduct the operation</font> after<font color="#CCCCCC"> scouring the town Israeli agents</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">spotted the courier in a tiny cafe when</font> another Arab man joined him agents compared his face to a grainy photo of salami<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was there man</font> for<font color="#E5E5E5"> two days they did not let the red</font> prints<font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of their sight they even</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">followed him into the swimming baths and</font> somebody climbed into the water to swim <font color="#E5E5E5">close to him and thought they heard her</font> overheard him speaking<font color="#E5E5E5"> in French which</font> he was thought to<font color="#E5E5E5"> have spoken and then</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">thus decided that he was their target</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">there was however a junior member of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Israeli team</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who had her doubts</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Maryann</font> glad<font color="#CCCCCC"> Nicole did not think the man she</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was following all over this tiny town</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was the one in the photo</font> she was overruled<font color="#E5E5E5"> the people in charge</font> of the<font color="#CCCCCC"> operation including civies Amir</font> the head of the Mossad<font color="#CCCCCC"> because they were</font> so<font color="#CCCCCC"> anxious to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> kill</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Ali Hassan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Salameh</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they said no you are wrong we are right</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> they and they gave the orders and</font> the assassination<font color="#CCCCCC"> team moved in on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> night of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the 21st agents trailed their</font> target<font color="#E5E5E5"> and his female companion</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font> they went<font color="#E5E5E5"> to a movie they boarded a bus</font> heading for the outskirts of town at the<font color="#CCCCCC"> foo rubican gate stop the couple</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">got off and made their way</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">deserted</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> street</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> here's where the agents</font> made their move at 10:35<font color="#CCCCCC"> p.m. the agents</font> fired 14 shots<font color="#E5E5E5"> at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> close range the woman</font> screamed<font color="#E5E5E5"> as the mastermind of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Manik fell</font> to the ground <font color="#CCCCCC">salamé</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was dead the agents who made the</font> hit were exhilarated as they left<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> scene<font color="#E5E5E5"> but junior members of their backup</font> team made a fatal error<font color="#E5E5E5"> as they sped out</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of town</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a lone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Lillehammer policeman</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">took down the license</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> plate number of</font> their car<font color="#E5E5E5"> the morning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after the murder</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they drove the same car to the Oslo</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Airport</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> their</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Norwegian police arrested</font> them after the license plate number was broadcast over<font color="#CCCCCC"> the radio in connection</font> with the murder their escape route should have been perfect<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it would go</font> as an unexplained murder but<font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> didn't</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">happen the two agents</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> led police to -</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Mossad safe houses in Oslo</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> where four</font> more agents were arrested one<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> agents<font color="#CCCCCC"> was Dan Erbil</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who turned out to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">have serious claustrophobia the</font> Norwegian police<font color="#CCCCCC"> did not know it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> did<font color="#E5E5E5"> not know it they simply put him in</font> an underground cell and once he was<font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> the cell<font color="#E5E5E5"> he told the the police officers</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">please take me out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it I cannot stand</font> it he started offering<font color="#E5E5E5"> to talk when he was</font> given<font color="#E5E5E5"> the chance</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of a larger cell so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> started spilling<font color="#E5E5E5"> the beans on on this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israeli operation Erbil not only</font> confessed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to being an</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> agent of Mossad</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but under questioning confirmed what</font> European police had long suspected the existence<font color="#CCCCCC"> of operation wrath of God</font> and it led to the discovery<font color="#E5E5E5"> of several</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israeli safe houses across Europe and</font> really it led to<font color="#E5E5E5"> massive international</font> embarrassment for Israel as a whole protests against Israel's policy broke out all over Europe<font color="#CCCCCC"> as bad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as this was</font> the team<font color="#E5E5E5"> had</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> made a bigger mistake</font> the man they left dying by the side<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> the road was<font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Ali Hassan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Salameh it</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> Ahmed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bushi key</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Moroccan waiter</font> who lived in<font color="#E5E5E5"> this modest apartment</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">building rode his bicycle to work and</font> was killed<font color="#CCCCCC"> coming home</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from a movie with</font> his pregnant wife<font color="#CCCCCC"> Turan</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I remember</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some disagreement within the</font> operational<font color="#E5E5E5"> team as to whether they had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the right</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> guy and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when you have a team</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> is that expert and that skilled and</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> well-trained when there is</font> disagreement<font color="#E5E5E5"> from one of those expert</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">well-trained people</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> history has shown us</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you ought to listen in the aftermath of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Lillehammer five of the six Israeli</font> agents were convicted<font color="#E5E5E5"> and imprisoned</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">none served more</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> than</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> twenty-one months</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">too many</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this was evidence that European</font> governments quietly condoned the actions of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israeli hit teams Israel did</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not</font> express regret<font color="#E5E5E5"> about the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bushi</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> key</font> murder until 1996 and although payments were made<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bushi</font> Keyes wife and son Israel would never officially admit having<font color="#E5E5E5"> committed this</font> murder yet the mistake<font color="#E5E5E5"> would leave Mossad</font> reeling in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Lillehammer Golda Meir's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">worst fears had been realized the murder</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Lillehammer was seen as such as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">disaster for Israeli intelligence</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">go to my ear and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Israeli government</font> decided<font color="#E5E5E5"> to suspend operation wrath of</font> God and put a halt<font color="#CCCCCC"> put a hold on future</font> assassination operations Mossad hit teams would lie dormant<font color="#E5E5E5"> for five years</font> but Munich<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the red</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> prince would not</font> be<font color="#E5E5E5"> forgotten</font> in 1974 when Yasser Arafat was invited to address the<font color="#E5E5E5"> United Nations General</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Assembly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel was stunned</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was only</font> two years<font color="#E5E5E5"> after the Munich</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Massacre</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> standing right<font color="#CCCCCC"> behind Arafat</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> also</font> basking in the international spotlight <font color="#CCCCCC">was the man Israeli intelligence</font> considered the architect of Munich<font color="#CCCCCC"> Ali</font> Hassan Salameh<font color="#E5E5E5"> even after the debacle at</font> Lillehammer<font color="#CCCCCC"> Israeli intelligence</font> officials didn't forget Ali<font color="#E5E5E5"> Hassan</font> Salameh<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was one of the accounts that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hadn't been closed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> one of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> munich</font> accounts that hadn't been closed<font color="#E5E5E5"> and had</font> to be closed before<font color="#E5E5E5"> munich</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by the</font> mid-1970s<font color="#CCCCCC"> salami was hiding in war-torn</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">beirut and at the same time Mossad was</font> hunting him<font color="#CCCCCC"> down the CIA was courting</font> him Sam Wyman was<font color="#CCCCCC"> Salah meas CIA contact</font> in Beirut and was aware of Salah<font color="#CCCCCC"> Mays</font> connection with Munich<font color="#E5E5E5"> some people will</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">say</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Ali Hassan was the principal</font> planner<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I think he was</font> probably<font color="#E5E5E5"> the more operational planner if</font> you will but that's what I knew and accepted<font color="#E5E5E5"> saying I mean within</font> intelligence circles we knew it but we never talked about<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> he knew<font color="#E5E5E5"> I knew I knew</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he knew I knew</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> was understood between<font color="#E5E5E5"> us that he was a</font> marked man in 1978<font color="#E5E5E5"> five years after</font> operation wrath of God<font color="#E5E5E5"> was suspended due</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the botched operation in Norway</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mossad finally zeroed in on salami in</font> Beirut<font color="#E5E5E5"> to get him the hit teams would</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> go</font> active once more<font color="#E5E5E5"> salami now had two sons</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> two wives in Beirut the second a</font> former Miss Universe<font color="#CCCCCC"> when he wasn't</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">doing his duties as a family man salami</font> was working at the<font color="#CCCCCC"> headquarters of the</font> militant wing of the PLO<font color="#E5E5E5"> Fatah he had</font> lowered<font color="#E5E5E5"> his guard he was following a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">pretty regular</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> daily routine</font> the Israeli agents soon<font color="#E5E5E5"> realized from</font> surveillance<font color="#CCCCCC"> where he was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> living and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">where he would work and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people he would</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">visit every afternoon at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the same time</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">salami and his bodyguards left his</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">apartment building</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in a beat-up Chevy</font> station wagon and took the same<font color="#E5E5E5"> route to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Fatah office he relaxed</font> I mean how<font color="#CCCCCC"> long do you keep that up he</font> didn't get a facelift he didn't our face change he didn't you<font color="#E5E5E5"> know cut his hair</font> off<font color="#CCCCCC"> or anything else that he didn't</font> change<font color="#E5E5E5"> himself</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> which one would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> do if one</font> was<font color="#CCCCCC"> gonna</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> go completely to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ground in</font> November 1978<font color="#CCCCCC"> a woman with an English</font> accent moved into the top<font color="#E5E5E5"> floor of this</font> Beirut apartment building surrounded<font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font> cats<font color="#E5E5E5"> she spent her days on this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> terrace</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">painting</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Street sings</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or so the</font> neighbors thought it also gave her the opportunity<font color="#E5E5E5"> to monitor the streets and</font> look for Ali<font color="#E5E5E5"> Hassan Ali Hassan Salameh</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">scar and his bodyguards as they traveled</font> through<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> city</font> one afternoon in<font color="#E5E5E5"> January 1979 as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> woman watched the street below<font color="#CCCCCC"> Salome's</font> car passed<font color="#CCCCCC"> apart</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> VW Bug that Israeli</font> agents had packed with a hundred<font color="#E5E5E5"> pounds</font> of explosives [Music] when the smoke cleared the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Carly</font> destroyed in the middle of the street inside<font color="#CCCCCC"> 38 year-old</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Ali Hassan Salameh</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the man who the Israelis considered</font> responsible<font color="#E5E5E5"> for Munich was fatally</font> wounded<font color="#CCCCCC"> a shard of metal in his brain</font> the bomb had been<font color="#E5E5E5"> set off by the woman</font> on the balcony<font color="#CCCCCC"> a Mossad agent who</font> disappeared soon<font color="#CCCCCC"> after Salameh was seen</font> as<font color="#E5E5E5"> almost an aristocrat within the</font> Palestinian<font color="#CCCCCC"> community he was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he was</font> revered<font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> many people idolized by many</font> others<font color="#CCCCCC"> and his death came as a huge</font> shock<font color="#CCCCCC"> to to Palestinians he had a huge</font> funeral<font color="#E5E5E5"> Yasser Arafat shed tears and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hugs Ali Hassan Salameh his young son</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and really was visibly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> moved and deeply</font> upset by<font color="#CCCCCC"> the attack and I think it's</font> still<font color="#E5E5E5"> something he's probably upset</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about to this day</font> [Music] the Israelis who live<font color="#CCCCCC"> like contrast of</font> course<font color="#E5E5E5"> were completely</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> delighted about</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">his death and celebrated</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the fact that</font> they'd<font color="#E5E5E5"> finally managed to kill him it</font> was seven<font color="#CCCCCC"> years in the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> making</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">felt it had finally avenged Munich and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it's 11 slain athletes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they had taken</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ten prominent Palestinians who were</font> believed to<font color="#E5E5E5"> be directly or indirectly</font> responsible for the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Munich attack</font> including the red<font color="#CCCCCC"> prince</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> two of the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">three terrorists who survived Munich</font> were also reported killed in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the late</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">70s one while hiding in Lebanon the</font> other in an unnamed<font color="#E5E5E5"> Gulf</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> State there's</font> only one<font color="#CCCCCC"> surviving terrorist who was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">involved in the actual</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> attacker</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> meaning</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that's a man called jamal al</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> kashi who</font> still lives in hiding<font color="#E5E5E5"> now</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he still</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lives</font> in fear of his life<font color="#E5E5E5"> and things the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israelis may try to assassinate him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Munich may be avenged but the targeted</font> killings have continued on both sides <font color="#E5E5E5">the Masada has never stopped and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sees</font> its operations against policy Israeli officials<font color="#CCCCCC"> have not been shy</font> about<font color="#E5E5E5"> saying that they now consider</font> assassination<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> legitimate tool of</font> national security<font color="#CCCCCC"> the immediate and</font> direct result to us more determination <font color="#E5E5E5">to resistance range</font> here so far<font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 Israelis dead more than</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">200 injured</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> defines terrorism is</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> deliberate and systematic attack on</font> innocent people<font color="#E5E5E5"> civilians</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> children</font> babies<font color="#CCCCCC"> what</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> defines a legitimate</font> military<font color="#E5E5E5"> action is to go</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> terrorists<font color="#E5E5E5"> themselves</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> think the legacy</font> of Munich for<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Palestinians is that</font> they were forever identified as being terrorists or perpetrators of terrorist attacks<font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is really something that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">stalks their image in the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> world to this</font> day<font color="#E5E5E5"> there is simply no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> doubt that Munich</font> took the whole<font color="#CCCCCC"> confrontation between the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israelis and the Palestinians up another</font> notch and it's<font color="#CCCCCC"> Ghana it seems to me a</font> notch<font color="#CCCCCC"> every year since - here we are at</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the beginning of the new century and you</font> know<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelis</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> costumes are</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">calculatingly killing each</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> others</font> identifiable characters on the streets of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Palestinian territories</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> Israel in its own [Music] [Music] in 1999<font color="#CCCCCC"> a film</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> crew accomplished</font> something<font color="#CCCCCC"> that even</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Mossad was</font> unable to do they<font color="#E5E5E5"> located the only</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">surviving Munich terrorist</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> jamal al</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">gushy and convinced him to sit down</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font> an interview<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Palestinian expressed</font> pride in what<font color="#CCCCCC"> he and his accomplices did</font> at Munich<font color="#CCCCCC"> Olga she</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is reportedly hiding</font> somewhere in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Africa for the History</font> Channel I'm Arthur Kent<font color="#E5E5E5"> thanks for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">watching</font> [Music] [Music] [Music] you
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