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| I do not regret athletes' deaths, says Munich massacre plotter |
| 2006-01-04 |
| By Ian MacKinnon Steven Spielberg is facing claims that his film about the attack and its aftermath lacks balance. Oh for pheuchs sake. THE Palestinian who masterminded the Munich Olympics massacre â which is the subject of a new Steven Spielberg film â said yesterday that he had no regrets about the kidnapping that ended in the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes. Mohammad Daoud, who led Black September, the Palestine Liberation Organisation splinter group that carried out the 1972 attack, scoffed at Spielbergâs description of the film as a âprayer for peaceâ that would encourage reconciliation in the Middle East and complained that he had not been consulted about the plotline. Paleo and Mastermind....? An Oxymoron right? âIf he [Spielberg] really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone,â Daoud told the Reuters news agency in a telephone interview from Damascus, where he now lives. Spielbergâs Munich, which opened in the United States last week and is released in Britain next month, dramatises the reprisals by Israel that followed the deaths of its athletes. A German rescue attempt was botched and five of the eight hijackers were also killed. The film says that Golda Meir, then Israelâs Prime Minister, ordered a Mossad task force codenamed Caesarea to track down and kill those responsible for the operation. Eleven Palestinians were killed but there is some argument over whether they were the real culprits. Nor should there have been. Daoud, 68, who used the nom de guerre Abu Daoud, said that he had yet to see the film, but believed that Spielbergâs storyline pandered to the Jewish state. He complained that two widows of the dead Israeli athletes had been given a private screening of the film in Tel Aviv. âSpielberg showed the movie to widows of the Israeli victims, but he neglected the families of Palestinian victims,â said Daoud. âHow many Palestinian civilians were killed before and after Munich?â Has not seen it, but it must be pandering, made by Spielberg, et al. Daoud offered no apology for the Munich attack and sought to justify the bloody outcome. âWe did not target Israeli civilians. Some of them [the Israeli athletes] had taken part in wars and killed many Palestinians,â he said. âWhether a pianist or an athlete, any Israeli is a soldier.â ....and of course deserving of death right Adolf? Daoud, who planned but did not take part in the massacre huh?, was allowed to enter Israel in 1996 so that he could travel to the Gaza Strip â after Yassir Arafat returned from exile â for a PLO meeting called to rescind an article in the PLO Charter calling for the eradication of Israel. In his 1999 French-language autobiography Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich Daoud claimed that Arafat, who professed no prior knowledge of the Munich operation, had been fully briefed beforehand and had given the mission his blessing. So this is a scoop? Nowadays Daoud feels he could still be an Israeli target (yes, you can take that one to the bank) and keeps a low profile in the Syrian capital, only occasionally visiting his wife in Amman. He does not dare visit his son and daughter, who live in the West Bank. Although Mossad veterans insist that the reprisal killings for the Munich massacre are over for now, Daoud believes he is still an Israeli target. Here in the West, we certainly hope so. âWhen I chose a long time ago to be a revolutionary fighter I prepared to be a martyr,â he said. âI am not afraid, because peopleâs souls are in Godâs hands, not Israelâs.â Good, then you might mind rucking up and heading to Iraq to fulfill your destiny. Appears the IDF has some unfinished business with this oxygen thief still in circulation. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 LOL, "Z." As do we all. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-01-04 23:19 |
| #7 To he|| with Tehran or Paris, I just hope this maggot makes the obits. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-01-04 21:32 |
| #6 I don't think he'll make Tehran..perhaps Paris |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-04 21:29 |
| #5 Bagdad wasn't safe anymore Frank. Next it will be Terhan. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-01-04 20:53 |
| #4 wow, he's in Damascus? Whoda thunk it? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-04 20:43 |
| #3 Heh, Barbara. Perhaps Daoud will target Schpielberg, now. That would be terrible. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-01-04 17:29 |
| #2 "I do not regret athletes' deaths, says Munich massacre plotter" Apparently Spielberg and his fellow travelers don't, either. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-01-04 17:18 |
| #1 I'm sure a private screening can be arranged for Daoud. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-01-04 16:48 |