Editing Munich massacre (section)

=={{anchor|Surviving gunmen}}Surviving Black September members==
Two of the three surviving gunmen, Mohammed Safady and Adnan Al-Gashey, were allegedly killed by Mossad as part of ''Operation Wrath of God''. Al-Gashey was allegedly located after making contact with a cousin in a [[Persian Gulf|Gulf State]], and Safady was found by remaining in touch with family in Lebanon.<ref>Reeve, p. 188.</ref> This account was challenged in a book by Aaron J. Klein, who claims that Al-Gashey died of heart failure in the 1970s and that Safady was killed by Christian [[Kataeb Party|Phalangists]] in Lebanon in the early 1980s. In July 2005 PLO veteran Tawfiq Tirawi told Klein that Safady, whom Tirawi claimed as a close friend, was "as alive as you are.".<ref name=began/><ref>{{cite book |last=Klein |first=Aaron |title=Striking back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's deadly response |publisher=Random House Trade Paperbacks |location=New York |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8129-7463-8}}{{Page needed|date=October 2012}}</ref> In 2022, a man claiming to be (and closely resembling) Safady was interviewed for a German documentary about the 50th anniversary of the massacre.

The third surviving gunman, Jamal Al-Gashey, was known to be alive as of 1999, hiding in North Africa or Syria, claiming to still fear retribution from Israel. He is the only one of the surviving terrorists to consent to interviews since 1972, having granted an interview in 1992 to a Palestinian newspaper, and having briefly emerged from hiding in 1999 to participate in an interview for the film ''One Day in September'', during which he was disguised and his face shown only in blurry shadow.<ref name=OneDay>{{cite web |title=One Day in September |date=2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/186705/One-Day-in-September/details |access-date=22 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423125131/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/186705/One-Day-in-September/details |archive-date=23 April 2011 }}</ref>

===Abu Daoud===
Of those believed to have planned the massacre, only Abu Daoud, the man who claimed that the attack was his idea, is known to have died of natural causes. In January 1977, Abu Daoud was intercepted by French police in Paris while travelling from Beirut under an assumed name.<ref name=Frum>{{cite book |last=Frum |first=David |author-link=David Frum |title=How We Got Here: The '70s |year=2000 |publisher=Basic Books |location=New York City |isbn=978-0-465-04195-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/319 319] |url=https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/319 }}</ref> Under protest from the PLO, Iraq, and Libya, who claimed that because Daoud was travelling to a PLO comrade's funeral he should receive [[diplomatic immunity]], the French government refused a West German extradition request on grounds that forms had not been filled in properly, and put him on a plane to Algeria before Germany could submit another request.<ref name=Frum/>

Daoud was allowed safe passage through Israel in 1996 so he could attend a PLO meeting in the [[Gaza Strip]] to rescind an article in its charter that called for Israel's eradication.<ref name=began/> In his autobiography, ''From Jerusalem to Munich'', first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with ''Sports Illustrated'',<ref name=SI>{{cite magazine |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2002/08/20/sb2 |title=The Mastermind |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=26 August 2002 |access-date=7 June 2010 |author=Wolff, Alexander|archive-date=4 October 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021004095420/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2002/08/20/sb2/}}</ref> Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by [[Mahmoud Abbas]], Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004, and President of the [[Palestinian National Authority]] since 15 January 2005.<ref name=ILC>{{cite web |url=http://www.israellawcenter.org/page.asp?id=340&show=photo&pn=1093&ref=report |title=Israel Law Center on Abu Mazen |publisher=Israel law center |access-date=3 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331131708/http://www.israellawcenter.org/page.asp?id=340&show=photo&pn=1093&ref=report |archive-date=31 March 2012 }}</ref>

{{Blockquote|Though he claims he didn't know what the money was being spent for, longtime Fatah official Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, was responsible for the financing of the Munich attack.<ref name=Daoud>Abu Daoud.{{Page needed|date=February 2012}}</ref>}}

Daoud believed that if the Israelis knew that Mahmoud Abbas was the financier of the operation, the 1993 [[Oslo Accords]] would not have been achieved, during which Mahmoud Abbas was seen at the [[White House]].<ref name=SI/>

Ankie Spitzer, the widow of fencing coach and Munich victim Andre, declined several offers to meet with Abu Daoud, saying that the only place she wants to meet him is in a courtroom. According to Spitzer, "He [Abu Daoud] didn't pay the price for what he did."<ref>{{cite news |title=Her husband's killer |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=25 December 2005}}</ref> In 2006, during the release of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s film ''[[Munich (2005 film)|Munich]]'', ''Der Spiegel'' interviewed Daoud regarding the Munich massacre. He was quoted as saying: "I regret nothing. You can only dream that I would apologize."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/03/munich.mastermind.dead/index.html?hpt=T2 |title=Suspected Munich massacre mastermind dead, report says |publisher=CNN |date=3 July 2010 |access-date=4 July 2010 |archive-date=5 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705122627/http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/03/munich.mastermind.dead/index.html?hpt=T2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Daoud died of kidney failure on 3 July 2010, in Damascus, Syria.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10498912.stm |title=Mastermind behind Munich Olympics attacks dies |work=BBC News |date=3 July 2010 |access-date=3 July 2010 |archive-date=3 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703184856/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10498912.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>