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Mastermind of Munich Massacre to Receive the Palestine Prize
Dr. Aharon Lerner
November 15, 1999
(article by Fayez Abbas, Yediot Aharonot, November 14, 1999, p.8) The Palestine Prize for Culture named after Mahmoud Hamshari is to be granted this year to Abu Daoud, mastermind of the 1972 massacre of Olympic athletes in Munich, the prize committee announced. Abu Daoud will receive the prize, amounting to 10,000 French francs, for his book, "Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich", in which he describes how he planned and implemented the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at Munich. The prize, to be awarded in Paris next month, is named after Mahmoud Hamshari, the PLO representative to Paris who was assassinated in 1973. Mahmoud Daoud Odeh, aged 62, was among the leaders of the "Black September" group which planned the take-over of the Israeli pavilion. In the wake of his book's publication, in which Abu Daoud admitted for the first time his planning of the Munich attack, the German police issued an arrest warrant against him. In France, Abu Daoud was declared a "persona non grata" - thus it is likely that a representative of his will be sent to receive the prize in Paris.
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