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Israeli Athletes Taken Hostage and Killed at Olympics

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The Munich Massacre

The PLO group Black September in revenge for the 1970 defeat of Palestinian guerrillas, broke into the Olympic Village and killed two coaches and took nine hostages. The hostages were tortured by their captors. It later ended in the death of the hostages and the commandos as they tried to leave the country.

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