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German president apologizes for 1972 Olympic attack failures

Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers his speech during a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics in Fuerstenfeldbruck near Munich, Germany, Monday, Sept. 5, 2002. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the commemoration event marking the 50th anniversary of the attack. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, front right, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, front left, arrive with their wife's Elke Buedenbender, back left, Michal Herzog, back right, at the Munich airport in Hallbergmoos near Munich, Germany, Monday, Sept. 5, 2002. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics at a commemoration event in Munich to mark the 50th anniversary. (Stefan Puchner/dpa via AP) FILE - A memorial plaque for the eleven athletes from Israel and one German police officer were killed in a terrorist attack during the Olympic Games 1972, stands at the former accommodation of the Israeli team in the Olympic village in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics to mark the 50th anniversary. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File) CLARIFICATION IN THE SECOND SENTENCE - FILE - A member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village appears with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the commandos held several members of the Israeli team hostage in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics to mark the 50th anniversary. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf, File) CLARIFICATION IN THE SECOND SENTENCE - FILE - Two West German border police helicopters that carried armed terrorists and their nine Israeli Olympian hostages, stand at Fuerstenfeldbruck air force base, twenty miles west of Munich, Germany, on Sept. 7, 1972. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics to mark the 50th anniversary. (AP Photo, File) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, second from right, his wife Elke Buedenbender, right, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, second left wit his wife Michal Herzog, left, attend a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the victims of the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics in Fuerstenfeldbruck near Munich, Germany, Monday, Sept. 5, 2002. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the commemoration event. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, right, attend a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the victims of the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics in Fuerstenfeldbruck near Munich, Germany, Monday, Sept. 5, 2002. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the commemoration event. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)
German president apologizes for 1972 Olympic attack failures