2012 Olympics of Shame: Israel Fears Iranian Agents to Carry Out 'Anniversary Attack'

Iranian agents are planning an attack against Israeli athletes at this summer's Olympic games in London, Israeli officials fear.

Agents from Israel’s elite intelligence organisation, Mossad, are hunting Iranian-backed terrorists in Europe, who are allegedly planning an “anniversary” attack 40 years after the Munich massacre, Britain's The Sunday Times reports.

Concerns have only grown after an attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last week that left five dead and 32 wounded. Israel has blamed Iranian-backed Hezbollah for the attack. This summer is the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics, where Palestinian terrorists abducted and murdered Israeli athletes during the summer games.

... Israel has intelligence indicating that Iran's Quds Force – largely regarded as Tehran's hit squad – was planning to use a suicide bomber against Israeli targets overseas. According to the report, the Mossad agents sent to [Bulgaria] informed both Jerusalem [and] the agency's London station of the discovery. The Israeli Olympic mission has already arrived in London. The past few months has seen Israel detect – and thwart – several terror plots against Israelis, most recently one in Cyprus and one in South Africa.

At the same time, the Olympic Committee has reiterated its refusal to memorialize the 11 athletes killed at the 1972 games. Despite international pressure, Olympics officials will not agree to a minute of silence at the opening of the games.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge won't budge: There will be no minute's silence for the Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich massacre at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Rogge rejected the latest calls Saturday for a special observance to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian gunmen at the Munich Games. "We feel that the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident," Rogge said.

There is wide speculation that the Olympic committee refuses to agree to a minute of silence out of fear that Arab countries and their allies will stage an Olympic walkout. What could be more embarrassing, after all, than reminding the world that Arab terrorism killed, and continues to kill, Jews around the world?

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