‘Wrath Of God’: Israel’s Response To 1972 Munich Massacre | Other Sports News
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The killing of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics prompted Israel to turn to a strategy which endures to this day: deploying secret operatives abroad to assassinate its enemies. Ever since the Mossad intelligence service embarked on its Operation "Wrath of God" to hunt down senior terrorists it blamed for the Munich bloodbath, it has covertly targeted Israel's enemies overseas.Half a century ago next week, Palestinian gunmen from the Black September terrorist group broke into the Olympic village and stormed the quarters of the Israeli athletes and their coaches.After a violent hostage drama, worsened by the blunders of German security services, all the Israelis were dead -- sparking deep dismay in the Jewish state less than three decades after the Holocaust."It was a real sho...