Yusuf Nazzal was second-in-command of the Black September squad that seized the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Games, killing two athletes in the initial takeover. Through 2020 the opening called the group he served the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Today the opening calls him a Palestinian militant leader and the group only the Palestinian Black September Organisation, the word terrorist itself absent from the opening though it survives three times elsewhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns he led a militant group and not that the opening once named it a terrorist group.
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Yusuf Nazzal (1937 – 6 September 1972) (code-name ' Tony' ) was the second in command of eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September that invaded 31 Connollystraße in the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972, and taking nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage after two members, weightlifter Yossef Romano and wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg , were killed in the initial takeover. Television images broadcast to the billions of people watching around the world show Nazzal frequently throughout the crisis, seemingly always smoking, wearing sunglasses, open neck red shirt and a cowboy hat, which led him to be identified as the 'Cowboy'.1 According to author Serge Groussard , Nazzal "liked to be called Guevara". One day in September : the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God' (2005 ed.).2Salemson, Serge Groussard ; translated from the French by Harold J.3The blood of Israel : the massacre of the Israeli athletes, the Olympics, 1972 (1975 ed.).4
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Palestinian militant leader (1937–1972) Yusuf Nazzal (1937 – 6 September 1972) (code name "Tony") was the second-in-command of eight members of the Palestinian Black September Organisation that invaded 31 Connollystraße in the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972, and took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage after two members, weightlifter Yossef Romano and wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg , were killed in the initial takeover. Television images broadcast during the hostage crisis show Nazzal frequently, seemingly always smoking, wearing sunglasses, an open-neck red shirt, and a cowboy hat, which led him to be identified as the 'Cowboy'. According to author Serge Groussard , Nazzal "liked to be called Guevara". The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God" (2005 ed.). The Blood of Israel: The Massacre of the Israeli Athletes, the Olympics, 1972 (1975 ed.).
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Palestinian militant leader (1937–1972) Yusuf Nazzal (1937 – 6 September 1972) (code name "Tony") was the second-in-command of eight members of the Palestinian Black September Organisation that invaded 31 Connollystraße in the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972, and took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage after two members, weightlifter Yossef Romano and wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg , were killed in the initial takeover. Television images broadcast during the hostage crisis show Nazzal frequently, seemingly always smoking, wearing sunglasses, an open-neck red shirt, and a cowboy hat, which led him to be identified as the 'Cowboy'. According to author Serge Groussard , Nazzal "liked to be called Guevara". The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God" (2005 ed.).
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second in command of eight members of the palestinian terrorist group black september that invaded 31 connollys
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second-in-command of eight members of the palestinian black september organisation that invaded 31 connollystra
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