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Thread #55754   Message #869208
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
17-Jan-03 - 09:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Government Controlled Media?
Subject: RE: BS: Government Controlled Media?
Just for the record: 290 people were killed on 3rd July 1988 when the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655. I think most people around the world saw that as act of terrorism.

There is a fairly convincing case that the Lockerbie atrocity in December 1988, in which 270 were killed, was a reprisal by Iran, and nothing to do with the Libyans at all. (The fact that something is a reprisal to an atrocity of course doesn't in any way stop it being criminal, whether it's carried out by Iran or Israel or Palestinians or anyone else.)