What Happened on This Day in History?
In 1973, Israeli Mossad agents traveled to Lillehammer, Norway, on a mission to assassinate Ali Hassan Salameh - a key planner of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. They shot and killed the wrong man entirely: Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan waiter who was out for a casual evening with his pregnant wife.
Why It's Strange
One of the world's most elite intelligence agencies, on a high-stakes revenge mission, mistook a completely innocent waiter at a leisure pool for a top terrorist, turning a covert operation into an international scandal and a criminal trial in Norway.
