Black September (group)

The Black September Organization (BSO) was a unit of the Palestinian fedayeen, founded in 1970. A March 1973 document released in 1981 by the U.S. State Department confirms the widely held belief that Fatah, the PLO faction controlled at the time by Yasser Arafat, was Black September's parent organization. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/plobso.html

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Palestinian - Fedayeen - 1970 - State Department - Fatah - PLO - Yasser Arafat

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The group's name came from the conflict known as Black September, which began on September 16, 1970, when King Hussein of Jordan declared military rule in response to an attempt by the fedayeen to seize his kingdom, resulting in the deaths or expulsion from Jordan of thousands of Palestinians, a period that also became known as the "era of regrettable events". The BSO began as a small cell of Fatah men determined to take revenge on King Hussein and the Jordanian army. Recruits from the PFLP, al-Saiqa, and other groups also joined. It became one of the earliest examples of a paramilitary or terrorist organization operating on the model of leaderless resistance.

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Black September - September 16 - 1970 - King Hussein of Jordan - PFLP - Terrorist - Leaderless resistance

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The BSO is best known for the kidnap and murder of 11 Israeli athletes, and the murder of a German police officer, during the September 1972 attack on the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. See Munich Massacre.

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Israel - German - Munich - Munich Massacre

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