The Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum occurred on 1 March 1973 when eight Palestinian militants from the Black September Organization took ten diplomats hostage at Saudi Arabia's embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. The attack happened during a formal reception at the Saudi Embassy, which was attended by the American diplomats Cleo A. Noel Jr. and George Curtis Moore, the Belgian diplomat Guy Eid, and several other foreign dignitaries. The morning after the hostages were taken, the attackers demanded the release of several of Israel's Palestinian prisoners, several members of the Baader-Meinhof Group, and the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan. President Richard Nixon refused to negotiate with the terrorists, with Nixon believing that the hostages would be released unharmed. While the BSO terrorists did release several hostages, they took Noel, Moore, and Eid to the basement of the embassy and executed them.