Yet, the IOC has ruled out a minute of silence in remembrance of the slain athletes!
Posted on 07/22/2012 3:48:20 PM PDT by Former Fetus
Berlin failed to heed warnings prior to 1972 Olympics massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed, magazine reports.
The German government had advance warning of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, Der Spiegel reported online on Sunday.
A few weeks before the massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September, the report indicates that German intelligence and the German foreign ministry received information indicating that a terror operation was being planned at the Olympics.
A few days before the Olympics, an Italian paper reported the same threat.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Yet, the IOC has ruled out a minute of silence in remembrance of the slain athletes!
The problem with intelligence work is sorting out the real threats from the noise. You have to be able to associate a credibility factor. Then, their needs to be corroborating evidence. You simply can’t act on every threat your receive. Your resources would be exhausted against mostly thin air.
Ah, but will there be five recognized “rest periods” per day for “certain” athletes??
case in point, there were plenty of advance warning years before 9-11 that went unheeded...
if you are familiar with the whole story the bigger issue is what Germany did immediately after the attack, not what they didn’t do beforehand...
btw- link leads to a picture, not the article...
I believe the story should read Bonn, not Berlin.
GMTA - the writer is obviously (much) younger than 40 and it appears “journalists” don’t bother to study history.
thanks...found it...there’s a lot of problems with the Monday morning QBing on issues such as this...Munich ‘72 grabbed me from the inside as i was a kid, engrossed in the Olympics when it went down...i’ve read a lot of books and articles (Simon Reeves “One Day in September” being the best) and really don’t know that the Germans had much serious pre-Olympic info on what was about to go down...
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