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PA calls terrorist who planned Olympic massacre "a great national leader"

Headline: “Announcement of the death of a great national leader”
“Adv. Ghassan Al-Shak’a, member of the PLO Executive Council and head of the Foreign Relations Department, together with all the department’s officials, hereby inform the Palestinian people and the world of the passing of the great national fighter and leader [rank] Amin Al-Hindi (Abu Fouzi). On behalf of the honored President Abbas, we convey condolences to the family of the deceased and to the Palestinian people over the passing of a person whose death is mourned by the nation, who was one of the pillars of the Palestinian struggle, and whose bravery represented the embodiment of dignity and glory in the history of the Arab nation. May he receive glory in Paradise and may his family and his nation receive fortitude and consolation. We belong to Allah, and to Allah we shall return.”

Note: Amin Al-Hindi was one of the senior planners of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics in 1972.

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