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Mossad: Munich Olympics
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Mossad has been largely unable to procure intelligence that would prevent Arab terrorist attacks such as the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre by the Palestinian group Black September. Instead, Mossad has attempted to deter terrorism by assassinating terrorists. Unlike the CIA, which tries to keep its covert actions secret, Israel has meant for its assassinations to be highly visible. After Munich, for example, it killed Black September's most important operatives, forcing the group out of operation by the end of the '70s. In 1996, Mossad assassinated the "Engineer," a notorious Hamas bomb designer, by wiring his cell phone with explosives.
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Following the massacre of Israeli athletes by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Mossad directed an assassination effort under an action team dubbed "the Wrath of God" (WOG). Over the next two years, WOG tracked down and killed more than a dozen members of Black September, but ... accidentally killed a Moroccan waiter who had no affiliation with the terrorist group.
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* July 1973: In an attempt to avenge the deaths of Israeli athletes slain during the 1972 Olympics, Mossad agents kill an innocent Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway. Five of the 15 agents involved in the operation serve sentences in Norwegian jails.
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