Black September
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Palestinian militant organization (1970 – c. 1988)
Key facts
- Leaders
- Salah Khalaf † (founder) Abu Daoud Amin al-Hindi
- Dates of operation
- September 1970 – c. 1988
- Active regions
- Global, mostly concentrated in Europe and the Middle East
- Ideology
- Palestinian nationalism , Anti-Zionism
- Notable attacks
- Munich massacre (see list of Black September attacks )
- Status
- Inactive
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Black September
- Official name
- منظمة أيلول الأسود
- Country
- Palestine
- Founded by
- Salah Khalaf
- Political ideology
- anti-Zionism
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- different from
- Black September
- topic's main category
- Category:Black September Organization
- inception
- 1970-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1973-09-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Black September Organization (BSO; Arabic: منظمة أيلول الأسود, romanized: Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad) was a Palestinian militant organization, which was founded in September 1970. Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assassination of the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal, and the Munich massacre, in which eleven Israeli athletes and officials were kidnapped and killed, as well as a West German policeman dying, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, their most publicized event. These attacks led to the creation or specialization of permanent counter-terrorism forces in many European countries.
Origin
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black September” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.