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	Munich (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Munich is a 2005 Academy Award-nominated film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.
		Avner Kaufman, an Israeli-born office worker for Mossad of German descent, is summoned to become the leader of a five-member assassination squad to seek revenge for the Munich Massacre by tracking down and killing the planners responsible for the Black September terror attack.
		The actual hostage-taking and massacre of the Israeli athletes goes for historical authenticity to the point of using Israeli actor Gur Weinberg, one month old in September 1972, to portray his father Moshe, the wrestling coach and first hostage killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Munich_(film) (3011 words)

	Munich massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian organization Black September, a militant group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization.
		The massacre was followed by Israeli air strikes and a series of Israeli revenge assassinations of the principal planners.
		Of those believed to have planned the Munich massacre, only Abu Daoud, the man who claims that the attack was his idea, is known to be alive, and is believed to be in hiding somewhere in the Middle East or in Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Munich_Massacre (6594 words)

	Reliving the Munich massacre
		The second is the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian gunmen during the 1972 Olympics, an event which had been staged in Munich specifically to overcome the city's unsavoury past as the birthplace of Hitler's movement and the scene of his greatest diplomatic triumph.
		Munich, which received its first private UK viewing last night (it will not be shown in cinemas until the end of January), is a docudrama that begins as fl-and-white TV reality and veers off on filmic fantasy.
		Munich may not be propaganda in the same spinning sense but it cannot simulate the horror of those terrible 21 hours in September 1972.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/051213-NL-munich.html (1037 words)

	Munich massacre - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Image:Ap munich905 t.jpg The Munich massacre occurred at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September, assumed to be an operational cover for Yasser Arafat's Fatah group.
		The attack led directly to the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes, five of the eight kidnappers, and one German police officer, and was followed by a series of Israeli revenge assassinations of the principal planners.
		Author Simon Reeve writes that the Munich massacre was one of the most significant terror attacks of recent times, one that "thrust the Palestinian cause into the world spotlight, set the tone for decades of conflict in the Middle East, and launched a new era of international terrorism" (Reeve 2001).
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Munich_Massacre (4474 words)

	Munich Massacre, 1972
		The Munich Olympics in 1972 were marred by terrorism.
		Most Germans hoped the Munich Games in 1972 would at least in some way help to heal the racial wounds caused by Hitler.
		The most memorable footage from Munich should have been that of American swimmer Mark Spitz winning his seventh gold medal or 17-year-old Russian gymnast Olga Korbut wowing the world on the balance beam.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/mm-munich.html (425 words)

	SpielbergFilms.com - Munich
		Now, from director Steven Spielberg comes "Munich," a gripping thriller based on the events of Munich 1972 and the highly charged mission of retribution that followed—by the covert hit squad known to Israeli intelligence as “Operation Wrath of God,” one of the boldest and most aggressive assassination plots in modern history.
		Still mourning the Munich massacre and infuriated by its savagery, Avner is approached by a Mossad officer named Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush) who presents him with an unprecedented mission in Israeli history.
		Torn between their desire for justice and their own growing doubts, the mission begins to tear at the souls of Avner and his team, and it becomes increasingly clear that the longer they remain on the hunt, the more they are in danger of becoming the hunted.
	www.spielbergfilms.com /munichhome.html (560 words)

	Munich: ambitious but fatally flawed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With a powerful recreation of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, inter-cut with actual archived news footage from the event, Spielberg juxtaposes a frightening reality right onto our faces, telling us, using blood and bulletins, of the carnage that had occurred there.
		While the first depiction of the assault during the opening scenes is enough to jolt audiences to our senses, Spielberg seems to exploit the massacre repeatedly as the film goes on, with increasingly graphic detail, enough for it to be called gory.
		Seeing Munich, one can safely say that the director is at the top of his form when it comes to his craft.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2006/mar/03munich.htm (1073 words)

	Munich Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Munich, a film directed by Stephen Spielberg, (Indiana Jones, E.T. Into the West, War of The Worlds: Counterpoint, Memoirs of a Geisha and more), is about the secretive aftermath following the massacre in Munich.
		The soundtrack of Munich is composed and conducted by none other than John Williams, composer of the soundtracks of every Star Wars movie, Memoirs of a Geisha, War of the Worlds, Superman, E.T., and Jaws to name just a few.
		Especially poignant is the opening track where violins and piano combine with disturbing vocals, supplied by Lisbeth Scott, to set the scene for the massacre at Munich in 1972.
	www.g-pop.net /munich.htm (427 words)

	Munich (2005): Reviews
		Munich, Steven Spielberg's spectacularly gripping and unsettling new movie, is a grave and haunted film, yet its power lies in its willingness to be a work of brutal excitement.
		Munich is at best a muddled prayer for peace whose weakness stems not from its politics but from the misconception of its main character.
		Munich is a Spielberg film for better and worse, a vivid, sometimes simplistic thriller in which action speaks louder than ideas.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/munich (1617 words)

	Munich massacre remembered. 5/9/2002. ABC News Online
		The Munich Games, the first in Germany since Hitler used the 1936 Berlin Olympics to showcase his view of Aryan physical supremacy, were intended to spotlight the country as a democratic, peace-loving nation that could play the gracious host to guests from around the world.
		Thirty years after 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics, their widows and team mates are still seeking justice.
		The Munich massacre prompted Israel to begin the first targeted killings of suspected militants and terrorists, a tactic still used against the Palestinians today.
	www.abc.net.au /news/indepth/featureitems/munich.htm (624 words)

	Munich Olympics Massacre Said to Be PLO Operation -- 05/05/1999
		Other reports from the time say five of the Israelis died from a terrorist handgrenade detonated in their midst, and the other four were shot dead by the terrorists.
		Although this is said to be the first public acknowledgment that the PLO was behind Munich, Daoud himself essentially admitted this when under interrogation by Jordanian police in 1972.
		Following the Munich massacre, Meir gave instructions for Israeli agents to hunt down and kill those behind it.
	www.cnsnews.com /InDepth/archive/199905/IND19990505c.html (804 words)

	"- Munich Massacre" category of Kesher Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Spielberg's Munich was expected to be among [those films], tipped for awards both in Britain and at the Oscars.
		This entry is part of a series on the Munich Massacre and “Munich” the movie, to provide factual background to accompany the movie's release.
		Does Stevie Boy Wonder hope to snag an oscar for Munich, the controversial new film about the aftermath of the Israeli response to the PLO massacre at the Munich massacres, based on an apocryphal account by Yuval Aviv, purporting to.
	www.keshertalk.com /archives/eretz_yisrael/_israel_vs_the_world/_munich_massacre (3156 words)

	Spielbergâs Munich- Myth and Reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Munich tells a story of Israel in the persona of one man, Avner, the leader of the team of Israeli assassins sent to kill Palestinians alleged to have masterminded the Munich Olympics massacre.
		Munich is, first and foremost, entertainment, it is already a very long movie, and it takes on enough questions that we need not criticize it for not taking on more.
		Munich is set in the 1970s, when Israelis were somewhat less cynical about possibilities of the future than they are today (thanks in great measure to the second intifada and to the great lie of Barakâs Generous Offer at Camp David in 2000) makes it easier to raise these questions.
	www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org /publish/Munich.shtml (1713 words)

	Munich massacre remembered
		Ankie Spitzer, widow of the Israeli fencing coach, Andre Spitzer, who was slain by Arab terrorists on Sept. 5, 1972, surveys the room where the incident occurred at Munich, Germany's Olympic Village on Sept. 8, 1972.
		The chalk circles on the wall were made by West German police to trace the impact of the bullets.
		"When we went to Montreal four years after Munich and asked for a memorial we were laughed at," she said.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/040827/munich.shtml (671 words)

	CNNSI.com - Athletics - Ghosts of 1972 massacre haunt Munich championships - Wednesday August 07, 2002 12:13 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Israel's most famous athlete has come to Munich and will participate in a ceremony on Sunday at a monument erected near the site of the massacre 30 years ago.
		So distraught was she that she considered giving up the sport but she carried on, and four years later in Montreal she became the first Israeli athlete to reach an Olympic final, finishing sixth in the 100 meters hurdles.
		The current championships are the first major athletics event to be staged at the Munich stadium built for the 1972 Games since eight members of the Palestinian Black September guerrilla group broke into the Olympic village.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/2002/08/07/munich_1972 (465 words)

	Amazon.com: Munich (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Steven Spielberg,Eric Bana,Daniel Craig,Ciarán Hinds,Mathieu ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		MUNICH is about killing, about vengeance, about protection of 'home', about existence in a world so bifurcated by age-old schisms, and about us.
		Throughout the movie it shows Avner having dreams which are brought to us as sections of the Munich Massacre unfolding, form the breaking in at the apartment to the showdown at the airport.
		Munich captures these things within it, and although it's somewhat fictional and takes place before some of us were born, it still connects with us today as much as the Munich Massacre did to the generations before us on that fateful September day in Munich.
	www.amazon.com /Munich-Widescreen-Steven-Spielberg/dp/B000F1IQN2 (2841 words)

	Munich Olympics Massacre - Black September Organization - Palestinian Hijackings FBI - CIA - Department of State - ...
		The modern age of terrorism was ushered in by the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
		A chart shows the 11 targets, whether they were hard or soft targets, the team assigned to assassinate, the date, location, and method for the hit, whether the hit was successful, if any members of the team was arrested, and collateral damage during the operation.
		Mention is made of the Munich Olympic Massacre during the course of these nine different conversations, taking place between September 6, 1972 and September 8, 1972.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /black_september.html (1949 words)

	Munich massacre remembered
		It was like a dream," said Roth, a former hurdle jumper who is currently in Munich to cheer on Israel's team in the European athletic championships.
		She spoke to the JTA by phone last week from Munich's Olympic Stadium.
		Since then, the city of Munich, the state of Bavaria and the German federal government have offered about $3 million to the families of the athletes, a belated and indirect admission of partial responsibility.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/020816/munich.shtml (505 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Europe
		Zvi Zamir, the head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, arrived in Munich when the plan was finalised and was flown to the airfield just ahead of the hostages and terrorists.
		The Munich massacre seems an unlikely subject for Steven Spielberg to choose as the basis for his new blockbuster.
		The suffering and death of the Israeli athletes and officials in Munich is returned to repeatedly during the film.
	news.independent.co.uk /europe/article340157.ece (2069 words)

	Munich Massacre Remembered, Memorial Services Held For Victims Of 1972 Attack On Olympics - CBS News
		With a break in the competition at the Munich Olympics, they went to watch a performance of "Fiddler on the Roof" before heading back to their rooms at the Olympic Village.
		From then on, Munich would forever be remembered for men in ski masks, smoldering helicopters and flag-draped coffins returning to Israel.
		At a memorial service last month, 25 relatives returned to the Munich stadium for a one-hour ceremony at the monument to the victims - a large stone tablet placed at the bridge linking the former Olympic village to the stadium.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/09/05/world/main520865.shtml (2139 words)

	Spielberg's Munich Massacre
		In the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Massacre, Israel, it is said, targeted those responsible for the ruthless bloodbath — those who physically perpetrated the attacks and those who helped plan and finance them.
		There were other parts of Munich which reminded me that Spielberg lives in Hollywood and exists in a land of make-believe where anything is possible.
		Munich had the potential for being a truly phenomenal and important film.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/jweinstein/060119 (1027 words)

	The Munich Massacre
		In 1999, Abu Daoud admitted his role in the massacre in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist.
		Bassam Abu Sharif, a member of the PFLP at the time, said the motive for the operation in Munich was to attract publicity for the Palestinian cause and to win the release of Palestinian prisoners.
		The massacre of 11 Israeli athletes was not considered sufficiently serious to merit canceling or postponing the Olympics.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Terrorism/munich.html (1219 words)

	Mideast Dispatch Archive: Abu Mazen and the Munich Olympics massacre
		The Palestinians demanded they be transported to the Munich airport where a rescue attempt by German police failed, and all nine hostages were murdered.
		Though Israel had long known of his role at Munich - Mossad was believed to have been involved in a 1981 assassination attempt in which he was shot six times - he even carried an Israeli-issued VIP pass that allowed him to shuttle between his home in Amman, Jordan, and the occupied territories.
		Though he wasn't involved in conceiving or implementing it, "the [Munich] operation had the endorsement of Arafat." Arafat is not known to have responded to the allegations in Abu Daoud's book.
	www.tomgrossmedia.com /mideastdispatches/archives/000267.html (3678 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Widows of 1972 Munich massacre victims approve of Spielberg movie
		Steven Spielberg's controversial new movie, "Munich," about the 1972 Olympic massacre and its aftermath, got an unlikely endorsement Wednesday _ the widows of two of the 11 slain Israeli athletes said the film neither dishonored their husbands' memories nor tarnished their country's image.
		"Munich" has already drawn fire from Jews and Israelis concerned that it distorts history or glorifies the Palestinian terrorists who carried out the massacre _ though some of the critics have not seen the film, which has been closely guarded.
		Steven Spielberg's controversial new movie, "Munich," about the 1972 Olympic massacre and its aftermath, got an unlikely endorsement Wednesday _ the widows of two of the 11 slain Israeli athletes said the film neither dishonored their husbands' memories nor tarnished their country's image More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /science/2005/12/23/70358.html (1970 words)

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