Black September

[Stu in USA]

Having recently seen the film "Munich", the terrorist group responsible called themselves "Black September". Why September?

[Drusilla]

I think it has something to do with an attempted coup by Palestinians in Jordan and King Husseins military response.
Apparently, there were many radical Palestinians in Jordan in the 1960's and they wanted to take over the country. (I think. You'd need to check this)
The subsequent eviction of the Palestinians took place in September and this event was called Black September. The terrorist organization took their name from the event.

[gary baldy]

As ever - from Wiki:

The group's name came from the conflict known as Black September, which began on September 16, 1970, when King Hussein of Jordan declared military rule in response to an attempt by the fedayeen to seize his kingdom, resulting in the deaths or expulsion from Jordan of thousands of Palestinians, a period that also became known as the "era of regrettable events".

[Stu in USA]

Thank you Drusilla and Gary Baldy for your prompt replies. By the way I highly recommend the film "Munich", whenever it comes out in the UK.

[Lonnie]

The above are correct, but if you take a look at this, facinating stuff, it covers both the birth and death of the organisation. www.geocities,com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/black.html

[Lonnie]

The link doesn't work, sorry, but you have what you were after, just tryng to add a bit of garnish.

[Pinotage]

Lonnie - here is the corrected URL (there was a comma instead of full-stop before com)

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/bla ck.html

[Lonnie]

Thanks Pinotage, hope stu finds it useful.

[Stu in USA]

Thanks Lonnie and Pinotage for your research however when I clicked on the link it said "page could not be found". Any ideas as to why?

[Hippy]

The URL is correct, but Answerbank puts <p> characters at the end. Click on link, get "Sorry no page", then click on URL in address bar and remove naughty chars at end then click go.

When entering URLs in AnswerBank, always put a space at the end, not just return/newline. It's a bug in the AB system.

Example: (1st just return, 2nd with space before return)

http://www.bbc.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk

[Hippy]

Oh pooh! Believe me, that space thing is the answer. The AB system is more odd than I thought. Maybe it does it if it is the last thing in a post. Let's try that. If this URL works ok then I'm not trying any more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk

[Stu in USA]

Thanks Hippy that worked!!!

[mike b]

This is all getting very confusing. I got straight through to the site on all three of the above urls...