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December 27, 2005

Silly Terrorists

1:46 pm | Culture | History | Comments: 4

Surprisingly enough, high-profile Islamic terrorists do not like Steven Spielberg’s new film “Munich”. The film itself supposedly deals with the abduction and murder of 11 Israeli athletes (and an Israeli police officer) during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany by the terrorist group Black September. Black September is a classic example of what happens when terrorists split from larger groups to form their own. Black September, like the Abu Nidal Organization, was a splinter group of the P.L.O. Historically, these splinter groups are always more violent than the group from which they split. The most interesting part about it all is reading what terrorists themselves have to say about all this.

Mohammed Daoud planned the Munich attack, and to this day is unrepentant, to say the least. His perception of reality is also in need of a tune-up. Dauod refers to himself, as all good anti-Israel Islamic terrorist wackos do, as a “revolutionary fighter”. He also claims that his plan for the Munich Massacre did not target civilians; a great statement, but for the fact that the only people that died in the attack were actually civilians. Daoud considers all Israelis to be “Zionist” soldiers, as do many thousands of Islamic terrorists around the world.

The other side of the story of Munich is Israel’s response. Mossad, the highly-renowned Israeli intelligence agency, responded by assassinating possibly as many as 18 Palestinians thought to be connected with Black September and specifically the Munich attack. Some, obviously including Daoud, consider this to be state-sponsored terrorism. Others believe it to be a justified and typically hardline response by Israel to an assault on her citizens.

The Munich attack of 1972 was an act of international terrorism that caught Germany completely off-guard, and was a turning-point in how the world as a whole viewed terrorism. Germany responded by forming Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG-9), now perhaps the best counter-terrorist unit in the world. GSG-9 has formed a basis on which many other similar groups have been formed. The Munich incident, aside from being a senseless act of violence, was perhaps the first major battle in the global war against terror.