Sept 5: 4:30 AM: Black September Palestinian terrorists kill
The terrorists penetrate, attack and secure the Israeli team compound (at Olympic Village, Munich, Germany) after killing the wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano, both attempting to stymie the attackers at the door.
After threatening to kill their hostages, the terrorists secure West German government commitment to provide helicopters for the first leg of planned kidnapping–out of the nine Israeli athletes to the Middle East.
All nine Israeli athlete–hostages die in the failed West German sniper attempt to kill the terrorists (at the helicopters on the airfield) four minutes into the early AM of Sept 6. Four of the eight terrorists killed in the abortive rescue attempt. The fifth was hunted down and killed an hour later at 1:30 AM. So, three terrorists remained alive and in West German hands.
Then, Oct 29, a little less than two months later, Palestinian terrorists hijack a Lufthansa jet, and secure the release from the West German government of the three captured Munich terrorists.
However, all of the above elicited a committed multi–year response from Israel.
Of the several original Palestinian plot organizers, only one – now in his seventies – is believed not to have been assassinated by Israel to date, June, 2008.
– after Wikipedia
[In an inter–related saga, California swimmer (Jewish) Mark Spitz was spirited–out (with his historic seven gold medals) by the United States as the murderous debacle unfolded. Spitz had set a new world record in each of the seven events.]