And that Keystone Cops performance by the German Police. What a joke, it was like Obama was leading them.
To be fair, at that time, there were few organizations and agencies in the world trained to respond to that type of threat...perhaps the SAS, the FFL by virtue of their North Africa experience in the 60's, American SF, by virtue of their experience in Viet Nam, or the Israelis themselves.
Most European counter-terrorist organizations (GIGN, GSG9, etc.)were founded, at least in part, as a response to the Munich Massacre. Even LAPD SWAT had only gone operational a year or so earlier.