The word “hostage” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2005. Today the opening carries none. 3 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Black September attack on the Olympic Village at Munich. The Black September Organization (BSO) was a unit of the Palestinian fedayeen , founded in 1970 . A March 1973 document released in 1981 by the U.S. State Department confirms the widely held belief that Fatah , the PLO faction controlled at the time by Yasser Arafat , was Black September's parent organization. [1] The group's name came from the conflict known as Black September in Jordan , which began on September 16 , 1970 , when King Hussein of Jordan declared military rule in response to an attempt by the fedayeen to seize his kingdom, resulting in the deaths or expulsion from Jordan of thousands of Palestinians. The BSO began as a small cell of Fatah men determined to take revenge on the Jordanian army. Recruits from the PFLP , al-Saiqa, and other groups also joined. It became one of the earliest examples of a paramilitary or terrorist organization operating on the model of leaderless resistance . The BSO is best known for the kidnap and murder of 11 Israeli athletes, and the murder of a German police officer, during the September 1972 attack on the Olympic Village in Munich , Germany.1
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The Black September Organization (BSO) ( , Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-aswad ) was a Palestinian militant secular group, founded in 1970.It was responsible for the detention and execution of eleven Israeli athletes and officials, and fatal shooting of a German policeman, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich .
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The Black September Organization ( BSO ) ( , Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-aswad ) was a Palestinian terrorist organization founded in 1970.It was responsible for the fatal kidnapping and murder of eleven Israeli athletes and officials, and the fatal shooting of a West German policeman , during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , their most publicized event.These events led to the creation of permanent, professional, and military-trained counter-terrorism forces of major European countries, like GSG9 and GIGN , and the reorganization and specialization of already standing units like the Special Air Service of the UK.
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Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assassination of the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal , and the Munich massacre , in which eleven Israeli athletes and officials were kidnapped and killed, as well as a West German policeman losing his life, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, their most publicized event.These attacks led to the creation or specialization of permanent counter-terrorism forces in many European countries.The group was last known to be active around 1988.
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Palestinian militant organization (1970 – c. 1988) This article is about the militant organization.The Black September Organization ( BSO ) ( ) was a Palestinian militant organization founded in 1970. Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assassination of the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal , and the Munich massacre , in which eleven Israeli athletes and officials were kidnapped and killed, as well as a West German policeman losing his life, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, their most publicized event. These attacks led to the creation or specialization of permanent counter-terrorism forces in many European countries.
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Palestinian militant organization (1970 – c. 1988) The Black September Organization ( BSO ; Arabic : منظمة أيلول الأسود , romanized : Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad ) was a Palestinian militant organization, which was founded in September 1970. Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assassination of the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal , and the Munich massacre , in which eleven Israeli athletes and officials were kidnapped and killed, as well as a West German policeman dying, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, their most publicized event. These attacks led to the creation or specialization of permanent counter-terrorism forces in many European countries. Black September is both the name of Jordan's ruthless war on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in September 1970 and of a Palestinian commando and terrorist movement created in the aftermath of the war to avenge the Palestinians' losses in Jordan.
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palestinian militant secular group
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palestinian terrorist organization founded in 1970
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