In 1988, The USS Vincennes downed an Iran Air jet killing 290 people. Iran put out a contract for a retaliatory terrorist attack. The contractor was Ahmed Jibril of the FPLP-GC, based in Damascus. Ollie North's arms/drugs/hostages operation also got involved and less than 6 months after the Iran Air massacre, PanAm 103 went down with the full knowledge of the CIA, taking with it a DIA team that was headed back to Washington to blow the whistle on Ollie. The "evidence" incriminating Libya was planted on the Lockerbie crash site weeks later in afterthought. Read about it here.
And here's another afterthought: Another Damascus-based FPLP did in Israeli superhawk Zeevi, thus handing hardline zionists the long-awaited opportunity to put into motion the Palestinian "final solution". Who put out the contract for that one, I wonder? And another naive question: How come terrorist mecca Damascus never gets a visit from the 7th fleet's brave pilots, what with Syria being evil Iran's ally and all?
-----Original Message----- From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Mark Pavlick (...) The U.S. experience with Libya demonstrates both the perils of a military response and the possibilities for international justice. Initially, the U.S., bombed Libya for its alleged role in the killing of U.S. soldiers; Libya retaliated by bombing Pam Am 103 over Lockerbie. At that point, U.S. officials recognized that more bombing would lead to a spiraling cycle of violence and turned to the U.N. International pressure was applied; and eventually the Libyans extradited the suspects for trial. (...) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20011025/b518cd01/attachment.htm>