Beslan Munich Attacks

Beslan and Munich Attacks

Abstract
At 4.30 am September 5th 1972 war terrorists and religion invaded the Munich Olympics. Terrorists from the “Black September” group stole into the Olympics dressed as athletes, carrying weapons in their gym bags, murdering two Israelis as they took nine hostages and one West German police officer. In 2004, militants from the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya stormed a school in Beslan, Russia and began killing over 300 innocent students. These two terroristic atrocities rippled across the entire world and resulted in unforeseen residual effects that went far past the initial event itself. While the Beslan and Black September attacks share characteristics, there   are also stark differences. My analysis of these two events will compare and contrast these two events by revealing the motivations, methods of attack,   supporters for these attacks, the demands issued, reactions by enforcement and government officials, and the consequences that took place after these events.

The Attacks on the 1972 Munich Olympics- Beslan Massacre
The Olympic Massacre in 1972 came about during a volatile time in the amid the tenuous   Israelis and Palestinians relations. In the years leading up to the attack, we saw the start of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1964 as well as the “Six-Day War” in which the Israelis fought against the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan (Karon, 2000).   The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed with one purpose in mind and that was the destruction and elimination of Israel in order to create a new Palestine state. The “Six-Day War” was an attempt by predominately-Islamic nations surrounding Israel to eliminate it from the face of the earth. All of the fighting and violence created more bitterness in the eyes of extremist Muslims that believed Israel did not have the right to exist. The Black September terrorists were all raised in Palestine refugee camps and hated Israel, therefore their...