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Washington Post 3 July '10:"Planner pf Munich Olympics attack dies in Syria", Associated Press, By ALBERT AJI
The Associated Press


Saturday, July 3, 2010; 11:08 AM
SUBJECT Munich Olympics attack planner dead in Syria
EXCERPTSAMASCUS, Syria -- Mohammed Oudeh, the key planner of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes, died Saturday(3 July) morning in Damascus, his daughter said. He was 73. . . .Mohammed Oudeh - also known under his guerrilla name Abu Daoud - did not participate in the Sept. 5, 1972 attack. Two Israeli athletes were killed in the assault, and nine others died in a botched rescue attempt by the German police. A German policeman and five Palestinian gunmen also were killed.

The Munich attack shocked the world as the most high-profile and brazen assault on a sports team, and later led to a wave of assassinations of top Palestinian officials. Oudeh was a leader of "Black September," an offshoot of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah group that was established to avenge the 1970 expulsion of Palestinian guerrillas from Jordan. . . . Oudeh said he had no qualms about the operation because he considered the Israeli athletes, as military reservists, legitimate targets. . . finally settled in Syria - the only country that would take him. . . .