BERLIN — For years, Germany's government had contact with the organizers of the Black
September terror group that was responsible for the murder of 11 Israeli sportsmen and a German police office at the 1972 Olympic Games, German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Sunday.
By respecting the feelings of that small
group of radicals, we have just disregarded the anguish that so many families felt, both from the
terror attack on
September 11, 2001 and from the loss of countless brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, daughters, aunts, uncles, and sons in the war that followed.