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Munich raid organiser dies in Syria
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| News Date | Sunday, July 4, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Palestinian nationalist who planned the deadly attack against Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, has died of illness at the age of 73 in Syria.
Abu Daoud died of kidney failure on Saturday, a day after he was admitted to Andalus hospital in Damascus, Hana Oudeh, his daughter, told the Associated Press news agency.
Daoud, whose real name was Mohammed Daoud Odeh, "was ill and passed away this morning", in the Syrian capital where he was living, a Palestinian official told the AFP news agency.
He said Daoud's funeral was expected to take place following afternoon prayers at the Martyrs Cemetery in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Damascus.
Daoud was best known for organising the attack in Germany that killed 11 Israeli athletes.
He was a leader of Black September, an offshoot of the Fatah faction of Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, that was established to avenge the 1970 expulsion of Palestinian fighters from Jordan. |
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