On July 3, 1988, during a patrol in the Persian Gulf, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian passenger jet that it had mistaken for a hostile Iranian fighter aircraft. U.S. Navy Captain Will C. Rogers III ordered a single missile fired from his warship, which hit its target and killed all 290 people aboard the commercial airbus. The attack came towards the end of the Iran-Iraq War, while U.S. vessels in the Persian Gulf had been patrolling to ward [...]
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America Turns Blind Eye to Apartheid in the Middle East
Even as the noose tightens on the people of Palestine, Binyamin Netanyahu has the neck to talk about peace.
The Israeli Prime Minister has been in London for discussions with Gordon Brown and US envoy George Mitchell. Back in the Middle East, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues. There is no sign of Britain or America acknowledging this fact or calling it by its name.
As they listen over the [...]
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