Mohammed Oudeh, the key planner of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes, died Saturday morning in Damascus, his daughter said. He was 73.
Oudeh died of kidney failure a day after he was rushed to Damascus’ Andalus hospital after falling sick, Hana Oudeh said.
Mohammed Oudeh — also known under his rebel name Abu Daoud — did not participate in the September 5, 1972 attack. Two Israeli athletes were killed in the assault, and nine others died in a botched rescue attempt by the German police. A German policeman and five Palestinian gunmen also were killed. The Munich attack shocked the world as the most high-profile and brazen assault on a sports team, and later led to a wave of assassinations of top Palestinian officials. Oudeh was a leader of “Black September,” an offshoot of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah group.
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In UK, gays may wed in traditional ceremonies
London, July 3: Homosexual couples in Britain could be allowed to “marry” in traditional religious ceremonies, a minister has said.
Lynne Featherstone, the equalities minister, said on Friday the government was considering allowing same-sex couples to include key religious elements in civil partnership ceremonies.
She said that homosexual couples could be permitted to use “religious readings, music and symbols”.
This would make civil partnerships practically indistinguishable from traditional weddings as Parliament rec-ently removed the bar on same-sex unions in churches and other places of worship through an amendment to Labour’s Equality Act. —IANS