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By Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (about the author) Page 3 of 5 page(s)
I quoted this before, but for those who missed it: "Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." - Hermann Goering, Nazi at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II.
Below is the evidence that nothing has changed much since 1968 and before, to now. Below is a chronography of "Terrorism," which I and most people of common sense call, Saboteurism, and it has been going on for about 3,000,000 years in various forms from hurling plague infested bodies over city walls and into drinking water supplies, to Trojan Horses. (Of wood covering warriors, not latex, covering penises). Although more people died because of 9/11, none of the other events were cases involving possible treason. Osama Bin Laden may have been responsible, but who paid him? Paid him, maybe, to be the fall guy, another Lee Harvey Oswald? Maybe one of us will write the Non-fiction Version of 9/11?
A Brief History of Space Age Sabotage Which Bears Repeating!
July 1968
Popular Front for the Liberation Palestine (PFLP) hijacked El Al flight en route Tel Aviv and forced to land Algiers. First aircraft hijacking by Palestinian group. The hijackers believed Israeli General Ariel Sharon was on the flight. Passengers and crew were detained by Algeria for 6 weeks.
Sept 1970
First mass hijacking occurred in 1970, when the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized control of two American planes and one Swiss airliner, all bound from Europe to the United States, to punish the United States for supporting Israel. The Pan Am, TWA and Swissair planes were blown up on the ground in Jordan and Egypt.
Sept 1972
Palestinian Black September terrorists massacred 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. An airport shootout also leaves 5 captors and 1 policeman dead.
June 1976
Air France airliner is hijacked by a joint German Baader-Meinhof/Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, its crew forced to fly to Entebbe airport in Uganda. 258 passengers and crew are held hostage but all non-Israeli passengers are eventually released. On 4 July, Israeli commandos fly to Uganda and rescue the remaining hostages. All the terrorists were killed in the rescue, as are three passengers and one commando.
Oct 1976
73 people killed when Miami, Florida based El Condor Cuban exiles exploded a bomb aboard a Cuban Airlines jet as it takes off from Barbados.
Oct 1977
4 Palestinian terrorists hijack a German Lufthansa Boeing 737 order it flown around a number of Middle East destinations for 4 days. After plane's pilot is killed by the terrorists, it is stormed by German GSG9 counter-terrorist troops, with 2 British Army Special Air Service soldiers, when lands Mogadishu, Somalia. All the 90 hostages are rescued and 3 terrorists killed.
March 1978
9 Al Fatah Palestinians seaborne raiding party landed in Israel and hijack bus, killing 26 wounding 70. All terrorists killed by Israeli security. Israelis retaliated invading southern Lebanon, under code name Operation Litani.
May 1979
1 hurt in a package bomb explosion at Northwestern University, U S A, designated as first ever attack by the so-called Unabomber. After 30 years of bombings, Theodore Kaczynski turned in by his brother.
Nov 1979
200 Islamic terrorists seized Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, hundred of pilgrims held hostage. Saudi and French forces retake Islamic world's holy shrine after intense battle, in which 250 were killed and 600 wounded.
April 1980
Iranian Arabs seized the Iranian embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. 2 hostages were killed on May 5. Special forces stormed embassy, rescued remaining hostages killing 5 of 6 terrorists. Most of embassy was destroyed by fire.
May 1982
Abu Nidal terrorists critically injured Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom in attack in London. The shooting caused government of Israel to launch invasion of Lebanon in "Peace for Galilee" operation.
July 1982
11 were killed on July 20, 1982 in Regency Park and Hyde Park in London by bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), to force the U.K. out of Northern Ireland so that Ulster can be united with the Republic of Ireland.
August 1982
Gunmen threw grenade into restaurant in Paris opened fire with automatic weapons, killing 6 wounding 27. 2 of dead and 2 of wounded were Americans. Action Directe claimed, and then denied, responsibility for the attack.
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