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March 2, 2023

Fifty Years Ago, Palestinian Terrorists Murdered American Diplomats in Sudan

Acting under Yasir Arafat’s orders.

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of an attack on the Saudi embassy in Khartoum by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September, which the year before had carried out the notorious Munich Olympics massacre. At an embassy reception, the terrorists took ten hostages, including four children, and eventually killed the two Americans in the group, along with a Belgian diplomat. Alberto M. Fernandez comments:

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