What was the worst terror attack of 1985?

[conjur]

Curious to hear the input from P&N.

I'll provide an answer later or signify the winner if anyone gets it right.

 

[bdude]

Air India Flight 182 - 329 deaths

 

[GrGr]

The US bombing of Beirut.

 

[Commish]

The Bears won the Super Bowl.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: bdude
Air India Flight 182 - 329 deaths

Actually, I'd forgotten about that one. That was believed to have been from Sikhs.


I was thinking someone would say the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 or the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, thereby neglecting to mention the over 80 killed and almost 200 injured in a car bomb attack outside a mosque in Beirut.

The attack being linked to Israel and its US support.


I wonder how many people up here actually know that the US and Israel are responsible for thousand upon thousands of deaths from terrorist attacks. In fact, had Israel been held to the same standards as Al Qaeda, Iraq, Iran, etc., we'd have invaded and occupied Israel years ago.

 

[Train]

never heard of an Isreali, or an american for that matter, blowing themselves up in Beirut. But if you say it was "US/Isreal" supported, than it must be true!

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Train
never heard of an Isreali, or an american for that matter, blowing themselves up in Beirut. But if you say it was "US/Isreal" supported, than it must be true!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisda...id_2516000/2516407.stm

In Context

From 1975 until the early 1990s Lebanon suffered a bloody civil war in which regional powers - particularly Israel, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organisation - used the country as a battlefield for their own conflicts.

Israeli troops invaded in 1982 before pulling back to a self-declared "security zone" in southern Lebanon in 1985.

The final death toll in the car bomb explosion was more than 80.

Some American press reports said the CIA was behind the attack, which was meant to kill Sheikh Fadlallah. He had been accused of supporting the suicide bombers who killed hundreds of US and French troops in attacks on military headquarters in Beirut in 1983 - a charge he has always denied.

The kidnapping of American journalist Terry Anderson eight days after the bomb has also been linked to the attempt on the sheikh's life.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...s/target/etc/cron.html

President Reagan and the CIA called off covert operations when Lebanese intelligence operatives -- some allegedly trained by the U.S. -- set off a car bomb on March 8, 1985, in an attempted murder of Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the Shiite Muslim cleric who some believed to be the spiritual leader of Hezbollah. Over 80 people were killed in the attack near a Beirut mosque. Fadlallah survived.

Many blamed the CIA for the attack, saying it had directed the intelligence operatives to carry it out. Robert McFarlane, President Reagan's national security adviser, says that the operatives who carried out the attack on Fadlallah may have been trained by the U.S., but the individuals who carried it out were "rogue operative," and the CIA in no way sanctioned or supported the attack.

Interesting.....

 

[AntaresVI]

So an attack was carried out by us-trained forces and some news agencies reported that it was US-backed, and all the sudden it's a US attack? This OP is nothing but flamebait.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: AntaresVI
So an attack was carried out by us-trained forces and some news agencies reported that it was US-backed, and all the sudden it's a US attack? This OP is nothing but flamebait.

Way to read more into this thread than exists.

 

[AntaresVI]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: AntaresVI
So an attack was carried out by us-trained forces and some news agencies reported that it was US-backed, and all the sudden it's a US attack? This OP is nothing but flamebait.

Way to read more into this thread than exists.

You're honestly going to tell me that this thread was anything but an attempt to portray US security policies in a negative light? I mean, come on now, it's fine to disagree with what we've done and where we've been in the past, and it's fine to be against US support of Israel, but at least come out and say that instead of childishly veiling it as some sort of quiz.

 

[conjur]

Why?

I was hoping to see how many people don't realize the atrocities committed in the name of US foreign policy.

 

[AntaresVI]

Well, you certainly could have chosen a more corroborated example, and I still think that making it a quiz for which you would provide the right answer was a poor way to get your point across. I see what your point is, i just think you could have made it without implying that most of ATPN's crew is (are?) idiots.

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: bdude
Air India Flight 182 - 329 deaths

that was the worst terrorist attack prior to 9/11.

Conjut your wrong, sir. the Air India Flight disaster was the the top terrorist attack

 

[conjur]

How am I wrong? I said I'd forgotten about that one.


Sheesh.


Go re-read my reply.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: AntaresVI
Well, you certainly could have chosen a more corroborated example, and I still think that making it a quiz for which you would provide the right answer was a poor way to get your point across. I see what your point is, i just think you could have made it without implying that most of ATPN's crew is (are?) idiots.

Not idiots. Just ignorant of the truth. There's a huge difference.

Ignorance of a fact such as this doesn't imply being an idiot. It just means we're not informed of the true nature of our country's foreign policy because the media doesn't report as it should. Only what the government really wants us to know.

 

[Beowulf]

Yea the Air India Flight was the worst that I remember from that year.