Georgina Rizk was elected Miss Universe in 1971
while representing Lebanon, the Christian beauty went on to marry Ali Hassan
Salameh – Yasser Arafat’s chief of security for the PLO and the mastermind of
the Munch’72 Olympics operation whereby Israeli athletes were slain by
Palestinian guerilla fighters. In Arabic culture, a woman is named “mother of”
after the name of her first male child (so “Oum Ali” refers to the child which
was born 3 months after Salameh’s liquidation by the Mossad). When Rizk’s
current (and second) husband – singer Walid Toufic appeared on television – he
referred to her as “Oum Ali” to the furore of the Christian population who saw
the beauty having a title which obviously refers to a Muslim name. The
soundtrack of the ambient sounds ends with the way ABC television covered the
Munich crisis.
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