Editing Ali Hassan Salameh (section)

==[[Munich Massacre]]==
Having become security chief of Fatah and chief of operations of Black September, Salameh ordered a terror attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics in order to fight for Palestinian independence from Israel. On September 5<sup>th</sup>, a group of men lead by [[Luttif Afif]] stormed into the Olympic village and took ten Israeli athletes and their coach Moshe Weinberg hostage. Weinberg and weightlifter Yoseff Romano were killed by the terrorists while trying to fight back. The terrorists then marched the nine remaining hostages to Apartment 3, where they holed up until the West German police arrived the next day. During the ensuing shootout, a police officer was shot and killed and Afif threw a grenade as the hostages were evacuated, killing all nine. Afif and four other terrorists were then shot to death by police.