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(Tuesday, September 5, 1972, 4:31 a.m. Central European Time; during the Munich massacre, part of the 1972 Summer Olympics) — Eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September infiltrated the Olympic village in Munich, West Germany, this morning, killing two Israeli athletes (wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano) and taking nine more hostage, in what eventually came to be known as the Munich Massacre.

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The guerrillas demanded the release of 234 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the West German-held founders of the Red Army Faction, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, and that a plan is made ready at Munich airport for their own departure.

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A rescue attempt late this evening would end in disaster.