One Day in September Page #4

Weinberger attempted to stop them...

but he was shot and wounded.

The leader went

into the first room...

but didn't realize there was

an Israeli behind him.

He was attacked full force

and his weapon was taken.

Another member of our group panicked

and shot the Israeli.

The terrorists demanded that

Weinberger, already heavily wounded...

show them where the rest

of the Israelis were.

At gunpoint, he led them

past apartment two...

which housed

the field athletes...

to apartment three, which contained

the weight lifters and wrestlers.

Weinberger calculated that

they might stand some chance...

of overpowering the terrorists.

I got out of bed and went outside...

only to find myself

standing in front of a terrorist...

wearing a balaclava hood

and a yellow sweater.

The terrorists were already holding

all five of Gad Zabari's roommates.

Now, weight lifter David Berger,

suggests they attack the terrorists...

saying,

"We have nothing to lose. "

But a gunman understands and jabs

a machine gun into Zabari's waist...

ordering him towards the exit

and back to apartment number one.

And that's how

I came to be the first in line.

My friends are behind me

with their heads bowed.

I feel in a bit of a daze

when suddenly I see...

another terrorist ahead of me,

wearing a balaclava hood.

Suddenly the reality

of what's happening hits me.

As I get closer,

he orders me in this direction.

But as he's giving me the order...

I push his Kalashnikov aside

and run.

He shoots two or three rounds at me.

But I don't think

about the shots, I just run.

I run for about 70 meters...

and then jump over the village fence

and into the first building I see.

As Gad Zabari ran away...

the already wounded Moshe Weinberger

heroically jumped on the terrorists.

He was shot and killed.

We had no orders to kill.

We were forced to

only when things went wrong.

I heard some shots,

so I walked up to the window...

and then I realized

Moshe Weinberger...

has been thrown out

of the door...

to the pavement.

He was naked,

without anything on him.

Shmuel Lalkin

Head Israeli

And I saw that he was dead

because blood was pooling around him.

This was when I thought

that we were attacked by somebody.

This is ABC.

I'm Jim McKay speaking to you live,

at this moment...

from ABC headquarters,

Munich, West Germany.

The Olympics of serenity

have become the one thing...

the Germans didn't want them to be:

the Olympics of terror.

I had the first telephone call

from the head of the team...

Dan Shilon

Israeli Television

this morning at 6:00,

and he told me that the Arabs are there...

and one of the Israelis

was killed.

His name is Moshe Weinberger...

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