Now they just have to figure out which middle east countries Americans have been “occupying” since 1983.
It actually goes back to before 1972 in Munich. The Black September group was organized by none other than Yasser Arafat as a terrorist organization against Jordan for the Palesinians being discriminated against and eventually thrown out of Jordan.
Nobody gave a whit and fewer knew about Jordan so the next best thing was to do something really horrible to make a world wide statement where the whole world was watching the 1972 Olympics.
Hijacking airliners started to be a means to make a politcal statement in 1968 but most of the hijackings were to Cuba prior to the Olympics.