|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 3/7/2009
Posts: 33,204
Neurons: 98,790
Location: Inside Farlex computers
|
 The Munich Massacre (1972)During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists from the group Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village and took a number of members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage. Two of the athletes were killed during the initial assault, and nine others lost their lives in the course of a failed rescue attempt, during which a German police officer and five of the eight kidnappers were killed as well. What went wrong during the rescue attempt at Fürstenfeldbruck airbase? More...
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 2/21/2014
Posts: 463
Neurons: 226,313
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
|
The thought of killing athletes makes me wanna puke.
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 2/4/2014
Posts: 8,578
Neurons: 7,191,559
Location: Bogotá, Bogota D.C., Colombia
|
No words to lament! Only tears!The memorial plaque in front of the apartments at 31 Connolly Strasse, site of the hostage crisis that led to the Munich Massacre.
It reads in both German and Hebrew: “The team of the State of Israel stayed in this building during the 20th Olympic Summer Games.
On the 5th September, (list of victims’ names) suffered a violent death.
Honour to their memory”.
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 7/26/2014
Posts: 1,405
Neurons: 37,072
Location: Apache Junction, Arizona, United States
|
Why are there so many more sad days that have occurred throughout the history of the world rather then days that would be considered wonderful?
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 2/9/2014
Posts: 491
Neurons: 192,145
Location: Apóstoles, Misiones, Argentina
|
an useless killing.
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 7/23/2014
Posts: 1,700
Neurons: 5,801,948
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
|
We have massacre every day in this world.
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 9/2/2009
Posts: 11,101
Neurons: 39,933
Location: Booligal, New South Wales, Australia
|
That does not make it right or acceptable Gary98.
It was a terrorist attack.
|
|
|
Guest |