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As the United States was monitoring the Iraq-Iran war, on April 3, 1988, sailors on the U.S. Navy ship U.S.S. Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner, Iran Air Flight 655, shortly after it had taken off from Abadan and while it was climbing through 10,000 feet. The flight was a scheduled flight on a well-traveled civil airway. The death toll was 290 people. Understandably, Iranians were irate at the irresponsible act.
Repeated U.S. Attacks on Libya
Libya had suffered numerous military attacks by the United States, which resulted in them having a motive for placing a bomb on Flight 103. In the 1980s, in the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed as its territorial waters, the US Navy in what was called the Gulf of Sidra incident (1981), shot down two Libyan fighter aircraft. Thereafter, two Libyan radio ships were sunk in the Gulf of Sidra.
On June 27, 1980, U.S. and French aircraft shot several air-to-air missiles at what they thought was a passenger aircraft carrying Libyan Col. Muammar Gadafy. Instead of killing the head of a foreign country, the attempted assassination succeeded in killing everyone on board an Italian passenger plane over the island of Ustica, just north of Sicily. Eighty-one people were killed by that scheme. The London Independent reported this sequence of events in a January 8, 1996, article, based upon documents obtained from the retired head of Italy’s counterintelligence agency. (January 8, 1996)
President Reagan ordered the bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya, including the residence of Libya’s leader, Col. Kaddafi, that killed dozens of people, including one of Kaddafi’s daughters. The motive for the attack was the April 5, 1986 bombing of a café in West Berlin that killed two U.S. service personnel. Reagan claimed, as support for the military attack upon a much smaller nation, that in March 1986 Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi ordered the bombing of the La Belle nightclub in West Berlin on April 5. 1986, which killed two U.S. military personnel and injured over 200.
Similar attacks ordered by President Ronald Reagan were the invasion of the island of Grenada on the basis Russian contractors were enlarging the runway to prepare for more tourist flights; and Reagan’s invasion of Panama on the basis that it was a transit point for drugs—including considerable drug smuggling by CIA assets and the Mossad (seeDefrauding America, Drugging America, and many other books on the subject).
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