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September 5 1972

Today i arrived at West Germany and I went to the Olympics. At first it was awesome. Some people broke records some fell short. They called this the Happy Games but it turned out to become the Munich Massacre. Because at 4:30 am people started screaming. And it made  h e me scared. About an hour later I went outside to see what was going on, when I went outside there was crowd of people. I asked one of the policeman what was going on and he said,"Eight Palestinian terrorists from the group Black September broke into Munich and took eleven Israelis athletes hostage". The hostage went on for 18 hours. At first the terrorists killed 2 of the hostages in a apartment that they took them to. But during a botched German rescue attempt the captors, with their hostages, had been transferred by helicopter to board a plane for a Arab country. Some of the Israeli hostages were killed by a Palestinian who threw a grenade into one of the helicopters that had the hostages. Another Palestinian sprayed the second helicopter with a machine gun. All but 3 Israelis were killed . 2 of those three were later killed and Jamal Al-Gashey is believed to be the last survivor and he is currently hiding in a unknown Arab country <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,35,255);">. The President said that we should leave right away so i went to my hotel in Munich a few blocks away from the site. From the first time we heard about the Palestinians I went blank. I didn't know what to do, I didn't want to even move I just wanted to get the heck out of there. All of the other Olympians went to a special hideout place that even the president of the Olympics didn't know where they were. The <span style="color: rgb(255,255,0);">Palestinians demanded that 234 Arabs be released from Israeli jails and 2 German terrorists leaders be released also.<span style="color: rgb(255,255,0);"> After hours of negotiations, a deal was struck with German a <span style="color: rgb(255,255,0);">uthorities and a trip to the NATO air base at Firstenfeldbruck, by bus and then two helicopters was arranged, in order to board a plane for Cairo. <span style="color: rgb(255,255,0);">German sharpshooters were standing by with orders to simultaneously kill all the terrorists without harming the hostages. That didn't work it turned out that the germans were one short of sharpshooters. It <span style="color: rgb(255,255,0);">turned out to be a bloody mess with <span style="color: rgb(255,255,0);"> most of the Israelis dead and only <span style="color: rgb(255,255,0);">two Palestinians captured and imprisoned. The Olympics were stopped for a little while but then<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> [|Avery Brundage] (the president of the 72 Olympics), said, that th     <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="color: rgb(255,74,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> ey must go on and they restarted a day later. He told us that he was scared about restarting the Olympics but he decided that all the Olympians worked hard to get there so he made them go on.The<span style="color: rgb(255,255,0);"> attack prompted heightened security at future Olympics beginning with the [|1976 Winter Olympics].

these are 7 of the israelies that were killed by the palestinians in the munich massacre.

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-The 1972 Olympics have come to be known as the Munich Massacre. -Happened on September 5 1972 -eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September terrorist organization broke into Munich the town that held the Olympics that year, and took eleven Israeli athletes hostage. -They killed two of the hostages in the apartment after fighting back. -The terrorists held the Israelis hostage for almost 18 hours. -The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany. -During a botched German rescue attempt, the captors with their hostages had been transferred by helicopter, to board a plane bound for an undetermined Arab country. -Israeli hostages were killed by a Palestinian who threw a grenade into the helicopter carrying the hostages, and another Palestinian who sprayed the second helicopter with machine gun fire. -All but three of the Palestinians were killed. -Two of those three were supposedly killed. -Jamal Al-Gashey is believed to be the sole survivor. - [|Munich massacre]