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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".
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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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