Oct 1983 Terrorists bombed U.S. Marine compound Beirut, result: largest loss of U.S. military personnel in single event since the Vietnam War. The blast, killed 241, was by Muslim militias after U.S. warships intervened in Lebanon civil war.
Dec 1983 Harrod's department store London bombed on December 16, by Northern Ireland terrorist organization Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Bombing killed 5, including 1 American, and injured 91.
May 21, 2007 at 01:12:52
The War on Terror Is A Faux Issue: No Worse Since 1968!
Sept 1984 14 killed, 70 wounded when van loaded with 400 pounds of explosives drove past checkpoint at the U.S. embassy annex in Awkar and were detonated, driver of the van killed by British security guards. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
June 1985 A bomb exploded on Air India flight over North Atlantic following departure from Canada, killing all 329 passengers on board. A 2nd bomb exploded at Narita Airport Japan, killing 2. Sikh extremists claimed responsibility.
July 1985 Abu Nidal terrorist's bombed British Airways ticket office in Madrid, killing 1 injuring 27. A TWA office also destroyed. The bombings in retaliation against President Reagan's threat the previous day to strike against terrorism.
Oct 1985 4 armed Palestinians hijacked Italian cruise ship "Achille Lauro" near Alexandria, Egypt, off the Syrian port of Tartus, terrorists killed wheelchair-bound American. Egypt & Italy negotiated return of ship and remaining passengers. U.S. fighter's intercepted Egyptian jet carrying hijackers forced it down at NATO base in Italy.
Nov 1985 An Egyptian jet hijacked to Malta. 59 passengers, including 1 American, killed when Egyptian troops stormed the plane in Malta on November 24.
April 1986 4 Americans killed and 9, including 5 Americans, injured when a bomb exploded aboard TWA flight 840 as it traveled from Rome to Athens. The aircraft landed safely at Athens airport.
April 1986 Le Belle Disco, a nightclub in West Berlin frequented by U.S. servicemen, was bombed, killing two American soldiers and one Turkish woman. Two hundred others were wounded in the bombing. Libya was implicated in the bombing.
Sept 1986 Twenty-one Jewish worshipers were killed in Istanbul during an attack on a synagogue by an Abu Nidal terrorist team.
June 1987 A car bomb exploded outside the back gate of the U.S. Embassy in Rome and rockets were fired at the compound from across the street. One passerby was injured in the attacks.
Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8. Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college. He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthro, Painting and more. After being tenured he taught; architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and cable TV show. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.
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"Are Americans and Brits really posing as Arabs trying to set off bomb in peaceful Baghdad neighborhood, arrested, then liberated by Brit "Troops" with tanks and American Mercenaries? . . . . . . . . . ."
Yes, but we knew all that. Where have you been?
Doesn't everybody know already who is behind all this in order to provoke a civil war and fragment the entire middle east in the favor of you-know-who? - Well, if not, thanks for explaining it to the rest.
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amazin (31 articles, 0 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 377 comments)
on Monday, August 13, 2007 at 8:30:53 AM
Let's get something straight: Modern terrorism is a tool of imperialism. No one ever asks: Where do the terrorists get their weapons and explosives? Surely, they don't manufacture them. And, if they buy them, where are they getting the money to do so? The alleged fuel oil bomb at the Murrah building couldn't possibly cause the damage inflicted. The 1993 WTC bombing had FBI/CIA agents associated with the terrorists. No 757 100-ton jumbo jet can fit into the hole at the Pentagon. There's no evidence a jumbo jet crashed in Pennsylvania. The planes which hit the WTC weren't the original hijacked jets. Neither plane had the colors or decals of UA or AA airlines. How did this happen? Just ask the criminal cabal in the Pentagon basement. Bush Baby was on a need-to-know basis. His job was to sit tight in that classroom while Darth Cheney and Adolf Guiliani perpetrated the crimes and destroyed the evidence. Nine of the alleged 19 Arab hijackers are alive and well in the Middle East. Osama had nothing to do with 9/11. If you don't believe me, then why did the FBI and the CIA quietly close the 9/11 case against him for lack of evidence? 9/11 was the biggest act of treason in our nation's history. Osama is reportedly holed up in Waziristan which is a little bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, the nation's smallest states. In this small area, the US military could root him out and bring him to justice. The question us: Why don't they? Why did Bush say he no longer has any interest in capturing Osama? Today's terrorists are armed and funded by the real terrorists: our own governments. It's time to wake up, professor Pete, and smell the treason.
Where have I been? This is an updated rewrite of 6/26/07 reportage of the day of the crimes. It was also a prediction I made in my novel of 1998-2003, Lost Seasons
Below is the nugget of the original here on OpEd, 6/26/07 the day of the horror.
Before being so presumptuous you ought to do what I require my students to do, research the archives of the person you are sniping at. Nothing you have said here is news to anyone, sir. Do some research before attacking people you do not know. Bytheway, I don't hide behind a pseudonym, my name is the buyline.
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Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1310 comments)
on Monday, August 13, 2007 at 12:23:45 PM
This piece is a feast of realpolitic, complex truth.
Jeez, where to begin?
My chief fear is that this is digging too deep into the real world of elite manipultions to be widely assimilated, but what a gem of social/psychological/financial insight.
An axiom in mathematics differs from a theorm in that the truth of a theorm must come from a proof, but an axiom is self evidently true.
To say it straight out, I think most of what the prof is writing about is axiomatic. The insidious connection beteen elites (let's just use that word for the unimaginably rich) and, say, rampantly available drugs (to drug the oppressed) and the TOTAL WAR on marriage, human sexuality, and spiritual bonds is brilliant. Of course, he's totally right about all these things, but how infinitely depressing to see the degree to which nearly all of man/woman kind is being manipulated with such fiendish subtlty.
It's like loving chocolate until you discover there's a chip in your brain that is causing it. Our marriages, the sex lives of married men, our interpersonal relationships, our very God's and breath are being jiggled by strings held by the Earth's multi millionaires and multi billionaires.
A recent study showed t that around 1000 people control 25% percent of the ENTIRE WEALTH OF THE PLANET. These people aren't just Gods and Goddesses. We need a more science fiction term for these "black holes' of wealth.
And how they love to play with us. How they love to manipulate even our marriages, our sex lives, and our mass produced religions. End result: broken, depressed, "hypnotized" consumers who have drugs on call.
As the prof shows with such heartbreaking realism, the elites are "inside our lives", brainwashing our minds, and drugging our bodies -- but not "too" much. We still have to pay all the taxes, sacrifice our children to their (neverending!) greed wars, and buy all the poisenous, contaminated crap that breaks our backs to purchase.
All of this is as far away from DUH-brained "politics" as a bullet in the face is as far from a mosquito. These people are MURDERING our children, they are MURDERING the planet, and the are MURDERING our lives.
So, let's not too impressed by Paris Hilton's "moves" or too impressed bewitched by the antics of the mega, mega rich, since, April Food, we already ARE bewitched, and this piece is just a small sample of how our magnificent human adventure has been reduced to a pitifully conditioned cattle consumer hell by a tiny contry club (say, 2% of the human race) of vampire elites.
Go prof!
If this isn't the suff of ABSOLUTE HARD BALL, then what the bloody hell is?
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (216 articles, 44 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 480 comments)
on Monday, August 13, 2007 at 6:02:57 PM
