Wednesday, January 25, 2006

"Munich: Mossad breaks cover: Documentaries challenge Hollywood take on the mission to kill Palestinian terrorists" ("And Mr Barak, who famously dressed as a woman for the Beirut raid, describes the operation with evident relish and nostalgia....Spielberg's film suggests one group carried out almost all the assassinations, but in fact much larger teams of agents were involved;· there is no evidence Mossad worked with the help of a mysterious French criminal "godfather" figure as portrayed in both Vengeance and the film;· the assassination campaign did not fall apart because the agents lost their nerve, as the film suggests, but because an operation went disastrously wrong at Lillehammer in Norway, when the Israelis mis-identified their target - the Black September chief Ali Hassan Salameh - and killed an innocent Moroccan waiter instead. Spielberg does not even mention Lillehammer;· those on the list of assassination targets were not all directly involved in Munich. This is confirmed by Mossad agents, and Spielberg acknowledges this, but only in the last five minutes.")