As the threat posed by ISIS, Hamas, al Qaeda and other radical jihadi organizations becomes a mounting international concern, we mark the 42nd anniversary of an event that horrified television audiences around the world and set the stage for modern terrorist operations.

The massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, demonstrated the bloody audacity of terrorist plots, particularly when they are planned and executed to intimidate a global audience in the modern information age.  Click here to read more.