Attack planner blasts ‘Munich’

The Palestinian mastermind of the Munich Olympics attack in which 11 Israeli athletes died said Tuesday he had no regrets and that Steven Spielberg’s new film about the incident would not deliver reconciliation.

The Hollywood filmmaker has called “Munich,” which dramatizes the 1972 raid and Israel’s reprisals against members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, his “prayer for peace.”

Abu Daoud planned the Munich attack on behalf of PLO splinter group Black September, but he did not take part and is not featured in the film. He voiced outrage at not being consulted for the thriller and accused Spielberg of pandering to the Jewish state.

“Spielberg showed the movie to widows of the Israeli victims, but he neglected the families of Palestinian victims,” said Daoud, who has not seen the film. “How many Palestinian civilians were killed before and after Munich?”