Editing Black September Organization (section)

==Munich massacre==
{{Main|Munich massacre|Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre|1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon}}
The group was responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre in which eleven Israeli Olympic athletes were murdered, nine of whom were first taken hostage, and the killing of a German police officer, during the [[1972 Summer Olympics]] in Munich, Germany.

Following the attack, the Israeli government, headed by Prime Minister [[Golda Meir]], launched an [[Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre|assassination campaign]] and ordered [[Mossad]] to assassinate those known to have been involved in the Munich massacre.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4627388.stm|title=The hunt for Black September|access-date=16 December 2014|work=BBC News|first=Noam|last=Shalev|date=24 January 2006|archive-date=18 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818181959/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4627388.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> By 1979, at least one Mossad unit had assassinated eight Black September and PLO members, including [[Ali Hassan Salameh]], nicknamed the "Red Prince", the wealthy, flamboyant son of an upper-class family, and commander of [[Force 17]], [[Yasser Arafat]]'s personal security squad. Salameh was also behind the 1972 [[hijacking of Sabena Flight 572]] from [[Vienna]] to [[Lod]]. He was killed by a car bomb in [[Beirut]] on 22 January 1979. During [[1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon|a raid in Lebanon]] in April 1973, Israeli commandos killed three senior members of Black September in Beirut. In July 1973, in what became known as the [[Lillehammer affair]], Ahmed Bouchiki, an innocent Moroccan waiter who was mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh was killed in Norway. Six Israeli operatives were arrested for the murder.

Remarks in 2010 by [[Abu Daoud]], the alleged mastermind of the Munich kidnappings, deny that any of the Palestinians assassinated by Mossad had any relation to the Munich operation,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4883EC46-FB0A-400C-9C74-AE23C0E68032 |script-title=ar:الموساد قلعة التجسس الإسرائيلية |date=9 April 2010 |publisher=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] |language=ar |trans-title=Mossad the Israeli spying citadel |access-date=4 July 2010 |archive-date=17 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617160054/http://aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4883EC46-FB0A-400C-9C74-AE23C0E68032 |url-status=dead }}</ref> despite the fact that the list includes two of the three surviving members of the kidnap squad arrested at the airport.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/munich.html|title=Background & Overview: Munich Olympic Massacre – Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=16 December 2014|archive-date=16 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216191935/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/munich.html|url-status=live}}</ref>