Both Safady's fate after the Munich attack has caused much speculation. The documentary "One Day in September" (2000) states that he was killed by Israeli assassination squads in the aftermath of the Munich operation. However, in his book "Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response", author Aaron J. Klein claims that during a conversation with Tawfik Tirawi in Ramallah in 2005, he was told that Safady was "alive as you are". Tirawi did not divulge any further information, only adding that "the Israelis could still harm him." Klein also claims that members of the intelligence community speculated that Safady could have been killed by Lebanese Christian Phalangists as a 'gesture' to the Israeli Mossad.