Palestinian linked to Munich attack on Israeli Olympic team dies

Amman: Amin Al Hindi, a Palestinian who is believed to have been involved in the Munich attack on Israel’s Olympic team in 1972 and who helped found the Palestinian security services, has died. He was 70.

Ata Khairy, the Palestinian envoy to Jordan, says Al Hindi died of cancer of the liver and pancreas in a Jordanian hospital on Tuesday. Khairy says Al Hindi slipped into a coma after he underwent surgery in Jordan last week.

He said Al Hindi’s body was transported overland on Wednesday to the West Bank en route to the Gaza Strip, where he will be buried.

Al Hindi, a Gazan, headed the Palestinian General Intelligence Service under the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.