Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics

[Carl Remick]

>From: brettk at unicacorp.com
>
> >US has not been terrorized by Latin Americans (where the US behavior was
> >truly deplorable) but has been terrorized by Middle Easterns, even though
> >the US role there has been quite beneficial (cf. preventing the European
> >retaliation for the nationalization of the Suzez Canal by Naser, forcing
> >the return of Sinai to Egypt, liberation of Kuwait, not to mention a
>steady
> >influx of petro-dollars)?
>
>The US hasn't been terrorized by any Latin American groups ...

Not as such.  But what about the FALN (Armed Forces of National Liberation), 
the Puerto Rican independence group that claimed responsibility or was 
blamed for 130 bombings, mostly in New York and Chicago, in the 1970s and 
early '80s?

Carl

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