Greg Broiles writes: > It's my understanding that one hostage was killed early in the standoff, > and that another team member (a coach?) was shot but escaped as the > hostages were being captured initially.
> Some time later, the German authorities provided the terrorists with a bus > - the hostages and terrorists boarded the bus and drove to the airport, > where two helicopters were waiting for them. > There - on the airport tarmac - there was a gunfight between (AFAIK) German > police and the terrorists, which led to killing all of the remaining > hostages, many of the terrorists, and some police. Yes, I obviously got the Munich thing confused with something else. I have posted a correction in response to a sarcastic snipe by Tim. > "One Day In September" is a documentary about this which isn't impossible > to find on DVD or VHS. > .. or are you saying that the airport firefight took place between Israeli > soldiers in German police uniforms and the terrorists? No. It was Germans who screwed it up. The Germans, concerned about PR, turned down the Mossad's request to send in a rescue team, and tried to do the rescue themselves with the Mossad director watching. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
