ALl the monotheists are "people of the book" to islam, no? And I have to agree with the above posting about Reagan. He is also the one who decided to restaff the Beirut embassy with civilians and drop the barricades to kind of declare peace, which made it so *possible* for the embassy to be bombed in 1983, and again, with some of the same civilians who'd survived the 1st bombing, in 1984. If we hadn't made it so easy they might not have been so emboldened.