Neo-Nazi Aided Palestinian Perpetrators of 1972 Munich Massacre, Report Says
A document released on Sunday, detailing a correspondence between local police in Dortmund and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, reveals that seven weeks prior to the attack a man named Saad Walli, described as having “an Arab appearance”, held a suspicious meeting with a neo-Nazi activist named Willi Pohl.
Saad Walli was the alias of Abu Daoud, one of Black September’s leaders and an organizer of the Munich attack, who died in Damascus two years ago.
The newly revealed correspondence does not indicate that German federal security forces and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution acted in any way to arrest Abu Daoud, despite having preliminary information.
According to Der Spiegel, the neo-Nazi activist aided Abu Daoud in obtaining fake credentials, including passports and other documents. In addition, he is quoted as saying that he “drove Abu Daoud around Germany, where he met Palestinians in various cities.”
Currently, Pohl makes a living from writing detective novels, using a different name, and indicates that “without knowing it,” he was linked “to the perpetrators of the massacre at the Olympics.”
The German activist was also reportedly linked to a follow-up attack planned by Palestinian militants after the Munich massacre. Following instructions by Abu Jihad, then Yasser Arafat’s deputy and Fatah’s second in command, Pohl was to plan an abduction attack at the Koln cathedral and in the city halls of several major German cities.
However, he was arrested in Munich with grenades and fire arms in his possession in October 1972. Pohl was also found to be holding a threatening letter, meant to be sent to a German judge who had been in charge of the trial of three of the attack’s planners.