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Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was a civilian jet airliner shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward the end of the Iran–Iraq War. The aircraft, an Airbus A300B2-203 operated by Iran Air, was flying from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when it was destroyed by the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children,ranking it ninth among the deadliest disasters in aviation history
It was the highest death toll of any aviation incident in the Indian Ocean and the highest death toll of any incident involving an Airbus A300 anywhere in the world. Vincennes was traversing the Strait of Hormuz, inside Iranian territorial waters, and at the time of the attack IR655 was within Iranian airspace
However, the United States has never admitted responsibility, nor apologized to Iran
Originally posted by beezzer
Originally posted by hmdphantom
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by hmdphantom
First you say because of Islam.
Then you say because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Make up your mind, as to why you hate us.
I can't count . Nobody can. Even you.
So there are countless reasons why you hate us?
Brilliant!
Do tell.
A documents that shows the three members of Congress through a request from Obama had recommended some issues, in the 3th and 4th case clearly urged to use significant covert action against Iran facilities and personnel.
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs website removed a post only minutes after being published which initially quoted a statement by the Israeli Armey General Staff about the necessity of assaulting the Iranian elites as the only way to prevent Iran from becoming a regional power. This statement was later changed to declare that "Iranian officials are becoming resistant in the face of pressures”. The reason for this change by comparing the two statements is that the former would convey that Israel has taken up the responsibility for recent attacks against the nuclear scientists.
The latest assassination is about Majid Shahriari, a well-known Iranian nuclear scientist, on January 11, 2010 by a terrorist bomb attack which also targeted, Fereydoon Abbassi Davani, a then university professor, who has survived the attack and is now the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization. Moreover, on Jan. 12, 2010, Tehran University professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor was killed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his car as he was about to leave his house.
On Wednesday a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to a car near one of the faculties of Allameh Tabatabaei University and also a few minutes before, some shots have been heard.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), with 120 member states from across the globe, issued a communiqué to condemn the Wednesday assassination of an Iranian university professor and scientist.
Originally posted by beezzer
Originally posted by hmdphantom
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by hmdphantom
First you say because of Islam.
Then you say because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Make up your mind, as to why you hate us.
I can't count . Nobody can. Even you.
So there are countless reasons why you hate us?
Brilliant!
Do tell.
Military court finds Calvin Gibbs guilty of murdering Afghan civilians, but decides against automatic life sentence.
A US army sergeant has been convicted of murdering unarmed civilians and cutting fingers from their corpses as ringleader of a rogue platoon in Afghanistan's south.
But the jury at a court-martial hearing on Thursday decided against the automatic life sentence for Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, 26, saying he would be eligible for parole after serving eight and a half years.
The alleged ring leader of “kill team” was found guilty on all 15 counts, including three charges of premeditated murder in southern Afghanistan between January and May last year.
The verdict and sentence marked the culmination of an 18-month investigation of the most egregious atrocities that US military personnel have been convicted of committing during a decade of war in Afghanistan.
Photographs entered as evidence in the case showed Gibbs and other soldiers casually posing with bloodied Afghan corpses, drawing comparisons with the inflammatory Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq in 2004.
'All savages'
Major Dre Leblanc, a military prosecutor, argued against parole, reminding the panel that Gibbs had often said of the Afghan people he terrorised: "These people are all savages, look at how they live."
Gibbs was convicted on three counts of premeditated murder in the slayings of Afghan villagers last year that were disguised as legitimate combat engagements.
Prosecutors said he acted as the chief instigator behind those killings and other assaults by members of his self-described "kill team."
Besides charges of murder, conspiracy and other offenses he was found guilty of beating a soldier who reported hashish use to superiors and of military code violations for cutting fingers off bodies as war trophies.
A single count of threatening another soldier was dismissed earlier this week.,
Gibbs insisted two of the killings for which he was charged were in self-defence and that he played no role in the other. He denied allegations of planting weapons near the bodies.
Testifying in his own defence last Friday, Gibbs said he had "disassociated" himself from his actions while in combat and likened the removal of fingers from dead bodies to the taking of antlers from a deer.beating
Prosecution witnesses portrayed Gibbs as a blood-thirsty renegade who intimidated fellow soldiers and harboured a deep, ethnic hatred of the very people US troops were sent to protect from Taliban forces.
His chief accuser was the ex-corporal described as Gibbs' right-hand man, Jeremy Morlock, who pleaded guilty to murder for his role in the same three killings and was sentenced in March to 24 years in prison under a deal with prosecutors to obtain his co-operation in the case.
Five soldiers in all from the infantry unit formerly called the 5th Stryker Brigade were accused of murder, although Gibbs and Morlock were the only charged with more than one killing.
Originally posted by beezzer
Originally posted by hmdphantom
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by hmdphantom
First you say because of Islam.
Then you say because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Make up your mind, as to why you hate us.
I can't count . Nobody can. Even you.
So there are countless reasons why you hate us?
Brilliant!
Do tell.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by hmdphantom
Wow. The gloves have come off.
Brilliant.
No more playing around. No more obfuscating. You hold a grudge. You hate the "zionists" and because of what a few servicemen did, you want NOT equality, but dominance. Don't know the issues around the '88 plane issue, but war is war. I don't remember seeing Americans dancing in the streets when it happened (9/11) but hey, different strokes and all that.
It's all good. Sometimes I trust enemies more than I do friends.
At least you can anticipate what your enemies will do.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by hmdphantom
So, hmdphantom, what is the definition of "Islamic Revolution" to you?
How are you supposed to participate? By doing what?
Originally posted by hmdphantom
But , you will harvest what you plant today.
Originally posted by hmdphantom
Originally posted by OldCorp
Originally posted by hmdphantom
reply to post by seabag
And what could we expect from a person who his avatar is an army man ?
Warmongering.
HEY HEY HEY!!!
No need for those kind of insults, this is a family board.
SeaBag is a MARINE, and from what I've seen a damn fine one too.
Semper Fi
This is a family board , but you were not my audience.
With respect.
Originally posted by beezzer
Originally posted by hmdphantom
But , you will harvest what you plant today.
So will you.
Originally posted by beezzer
. Don't know the issues around the '88 plane issue, but war is war. I don't remember seeing Americans dancing in the streets when it happened (9/11) but hey, different strokes and all that.
Originally posted by Tw0Sides
Originally posted by beezzer
. Don't know the issues around the '88 plane issue, but war is war. I don't remember seeing Americans dancing in the streets when it happened (9/11) but hey, different strokes and all that.
There were no American's dancing in the street.
But there were Dancing Israeli's......
My My , your closest ally, Danced on your graves.....
Kinda tells you what the world thinks, if your closest ally was busting a move.
Originally posted by maestromason
A mighty giant was awakened on September 11, 2001 and now WE the United States of America are on a crush, kill and destroy agenda for all you tyrannic enemies of freedom!
Originally posted by maestromason
to hmdphantom and those of like minds I say....
BRING IT!
The United States will decimate ANY rogue nation like Iran and keep it moving eastward until all of the Eastern hemisphere is cleansed of coward terrorists and illegitimate usurpers.
A mighty giant was awakened on September 11, 2001 and now WE the United States of America are on a crush, kill and destroy agenda for all you tyrannic enemies of freedom!
I said once befor eand I will say it again...I DO NOT EXCUSE ANYTHING THAT MY COUNTRY DOES OVERSEAS TO ENSURE MY FREEDOM!
libertatem officii virtute!
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by hmdphantom
Wow. The gloves have come off.
Brilliant.
No more playing around. No more obfuscating. You hold a grudge. You hate the "zionists" and because of what a few servicemen did, you want NOT equality, but dominance. Don't know the issues around the '88 plane issue, but war is war. I don't remember seeing Americans dancing in the streets when it happened (9/11) but hey, different strokes and all that.
It's all good. Sometimes I trust enemies more than I do friends.
At least you can anticipate what your enemies will do.