An attack at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games would produce one of the
defining images of international terrorism. The chilling photo of a
hooded man peering from a balcony in the Olympic Village would be viewed
worldwide as a horrific symbol of global terrorism. The man wearing a
mask with cutout slits for his eyes was a member of the Palestinian
terrorist group Black September. He and his fellow terrorists had seized
11 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation and were holding them
hostage. They would kill them all as the tragedy unfolded. What had been
dubbed the "happy Olympics" would be forever remembered as the Munich
massacre. The Olympics would never the same.