[3] Unlike some of his fellow fedayeen, he did not have any connections with Germany, but was described by author Simon Reeve as "resourceful, reliable and committed.
In a press conference given by the three surviving militants in Tripoli shortly after their release from Germany, Adnan Al-Gashey was asked by a British journalist if he, personally, shot the Israelis.
In the documentary film One Day in September (2000), it is stated that Israeli Mossad assassination squads killed both him and Mohammad Safady.
However, in his book Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response, Aaron J. Klein states that Mossad reported Al-Gashey died naturally in Dubai sometime between 1978 and 1979, from a genetic heart condition.
[1] It can be assumed, however, that by the year 2000, with the publishing of Simon Reeve's book, Al-Gashey had died, as his wife gives a description of him in the past tense.