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Palestinian linked to Munich Olympics attack dies
AMMAN - Amin al-Hindi, a senior Palestinian official suspected of involvement in a 1972 attack on Israel’s Olympic team in Munich, has died in Jordan at the age of 72, a Palestinian envoy said on Wednesday.
“Hindi was moved to the King Hussein Medical Centre in Amman six months ago after cancer treatment, and doctors removed a large part of his liver,” the Palestinian ambassador to Amman, Atallah Kheiry, told AFP.
“After that he went into a coma and died on Tuesday night.”
Hindi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s main Fatah party from the Gaza Strip, was in charge of intelligence services under late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
“His body was sent this morning to Jericho and then to Ramallah (in the West Bank), where president Mahmud Abbas held a military funeral for Hindi,” Kheiry said.
“He will be buried in Gaza in line with his will.”
Hindi’s death comes little more than a month after that of Palestinian leader Abu Daoud, who planned the daring deadly Munich attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes.
Daoud, whose real name was Mohammed Daoud Odeh, died in Damascus on July 3. He was 73.
A member of the Palestinian parliament as well as Fatah, Daoud was best known for organising the Munich attack which he claimed responsibility for in his 1999 book “Palestine, from Jerusalem to Munich”.
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