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...Israelis were more sensitive than usual to any invasion of their air space that day, for two reasons. One was an odd rumor that Arab fedayeen were planning some sort of kamikaze raid on Israel using a disguised civilian airliner. The other was a more substantial report that a commando of trained Al-Fatah guerrillas was flying from Libya to Cairo en route to camps in Syria and Lebanon...
...recall The Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck, indomitable as ever, was the leader of a crack World War II commando unit dispatched to destroy a brobdingnagian Nazi artillery unit. En route, Peck and his troops would often denounce the ironies of fate and the horrors of war, then slaughter like Saracens when they finally came up against...
Israel may also adopt some of the terrorists' own methods, taking the initiative against guerrilla cells in Europe and elsewhere. It is a form of warfare that is hardly new to Israelis. In the early 1950s, a special commando unit known as "101" carried out bloody raids into Egypt and Jordan. Israeli agents have also been sent abroad to kill Arab intelligence men, kidnap former Nazis such as Adolf Eichmann, and in 1962-63 to assassinate German rocket engineers working for Egypt...
...planning and training for last week's attack, according to Israeli intelligence, was carried out in Syria. Israel also accused Syria of helping the fedayeen get German work permits in order to reconnoiter and perhaps even using embassy radio facilities to speed situation reports back to commando headquarters in the Middle East. The week before the Olympics started, several members of Black September set out for Munich, traveling separately and by various means of transport. They brought an arsenal of deadly Russian-built Kalashnikov submachine guns, pistols and hand grenades...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, stayed away for security reasons; P.F.L.P. Boss George Habash, who suffers from a heart condition, was forced to watch from an apartment balcony as the cortege passed. But representatives of all the guerrilla groups in Lebanon and Syria were on hand. A slow-stepping 24-piece commando band in camouflage uniforms wailed Chopin's Funeral March. Thousands of Palestinian refugees, in a half-mile-long procession, trailed the flower-smothered coffin and its gun-bearing honor guard to the fedayeen's "cemetery of martyrs...