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Mousavi, Celebrated in Iranian Protests, Was the Butcher of Beirut

By Jeff Stein | June 22, 2009 7:45 PM | | Comments (4)

He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.
 
Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s, personally selected his point man for the Beirut terror campaign, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, and dispatched him to Damascus as Iran's ambassador, according to former CIA and military officials.

Tags: Ace_Lyons, Beirut, Caspar_Weinberger, CIA, Iran, Iranian_election, Marine_Corps_barracks_bombing, Mohtashemi_pur, Mousavi, Mughniyah, Red_Cell, Robert Baer, SEALs, terrorism, US _Navy

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Israeli Pilots Knew US Spy Ship Was American Before 1967 War Attack

By Jeff Stein | June 8, 2009 9:51 PM | | Comments (0)

Israeli air control twice told pilots during the 1967 Six Day War that a U.S. spy ship they were attacking was American, according to a new book on the USS Liberty affair.

Israel has always claimed that the June 8, 1967 attack on the spy ship Liberty, which killed 34 U.S. Navy sailors and wounded another 170, many seriously, was a case of mistaken identity, a "tragic accident."

But according to "The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship," by James Scott, Israeli pilots who radioed the Liberty's hull number to their air controller were told two times that the spy ship was "probably American." 

Tags: Abraham_Harman, cover-up, diplomacy, Egypt, Eisenhower, electronic_spying, electronic_surveillance, espionage, Israel, James_Scott, Katzenbach, Lyndon_B._Johnson, NSA, Six_Day_War, spy_ship, Suez_Crisis, The_Attack_on_the Liberty, US _Navy, USS_Liberty

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Arming Crews Against Pirates is Not Going to Do It

By Jeff Stein | April 14, 2009 2:56 PM | | Comments (3)

Boneheads like Bill O'Reilly are, as expected, calling for arming, or putting armed guards on, every cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden.

Which only goes to show that for every difficult problem there's always a simple, and stupid, solution.

Tags: Barbary, Bill_O'Reilly, Fox_News, Gulf_of_Aden, Navy_SEALS, pirates, pracy, ransom, Somalia, U.S._Navy

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