The Wrath Of God

August, 1976

Neither Side ever officially admitted that the war was in progress. But the time of its outbreak can be precisely determined: It was 4:30 in the morning of September 5, 1972, when eight members of a Palestinian terrorist organization known as Black September slipped into the Olympic Village in Munich, killed two Israeli athletes and took nine hostage.Before the day ended, those nine were dead, too. After the West Germans completely bungled a rescue attempt---among other errors, they deployed onl...

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