Another of the eight Black September perpetrators of Munich. October 2023: “a Palestinian terrorist”. Today, live-checked: “a Palestinian militant and one of eight Black September militants”. The swap is verbatim; terror survives once, in the body.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “terror” appeared 4 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Khalid Jawad (1954 – 6 September 1972) was a Palestinian terrorist and one of eight Black September terrorists that invaded the Israeli quarters at the Munich Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games , taking hostage nine members of the Israeli Olympic delegation after killing Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover. It has been suggested that Jawad was the terrorist wearing the ski mask featured in images that became iconic of this atrocity.1The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God" (1st U.S. ed.).2
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Khalid Jawad (1954 –6 September 1972) was one of eight Black September terrorists that invaded the Israeli quarters at the Munich Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games taking hostage nine of the Israeli Olympic delegation after killing Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover. It has been suggested that Jawad was the terrorist wearing the ski mask featured in images that became iconic of this atrocity. One day in September : the full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Israeli revenge operation "Wrath of God" (1st U.S. ed.).
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The opening as it stood in 2025 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Palestinian militant (1954–1972) Khalid Jawad (1954 – 6 September 1972) was a Palestinian militant and one of eight Black September militants that invaded the Israeli quarters at the Munich Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games , taking hostage nine members of the Israeli Olympic delegation after killing Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover. It has been suggested that Jawad was wearing the ski mask featured in images that became iconic of this atrocity.
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Today
“terror” appeared 4 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
one of eight black september terrorists that invaded the israeli quarters at the munich olympic village during
Now
palestinian militant and one of eight black september militants that invaded the israeli quarters at the munich
Where the word went
It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
“terror” now appears 1× under Death at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, 50% of the way down the article
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