Black September in Jordan
By: Inés Ceniga and Gabriela Mugica
Questions
Black September
- What is your opinion about King Hussein's decision? Would you have done the same thing? What would you have done/changed?
Why?
- Raids into Israel from Jordan (Battle of Karameh)
- Retaliatory attacks
- Relationship of US and Western countries with Jordan
- Seven-point agreement
- Tension between Jordanian Army and PLO
- Yasser overthrowing King Hussein
- 6 Sep 1970
- Conflict between JAF and PLO
- King Hussein and Yasser Arafat
- Attack on Palestinian refugee camps in Amman
- 8,000 Palestinians killed
- 50,000 - 70,000 people homeless
- Cease-fire, Sep 25
- PLO expelled, 1971 - Lebanon
http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fotografie-di-cronaca/hostages-from-three-hijacked-aircraft-attend-a-fotografie-di-cronaca/3246359
Hijacks
- Sep 6th, 1970
- PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
- Hijacked 4 foreign planes
- 3 to PLO territory in Northern Jordan
- 1 to Cairo
- Hostages were let go
- Planes were blown up
- King Hussein attacked
Bibliography
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/6890490/Terrorism-in-the-sky-four-decades-of-plane-hijackings-and-bombings.html
- http://middleeast.about.com/od/jordan/a/jordan-black-september.htm
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/jordan-civil.htm
- http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_jordan_expel_plo.php
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/17/newsid_4575000/4575159.stm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_in_Jordan#Casualties
https://birdinflight.com/world/black-september-how-palestinian-terrorism-was-born.html
Consequences
- Black September Organisation (BSO)
- Assassination of Jordanian Prime Minister
- Attempt on killing Jordan's ambassador
- Hijacking of Planes
- Munich Olympics 1972
- Bombs
- Lebanon Civil War
http://www.timesofisrael.com/plo-terrorists-castrated-israeli-hostage-in-1972-olympic-attack/
http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2014/04/14/lebanons-civil-war-the-scars-that-remain/