Posted on 03/03/2015 1:36:49 PM PST by huldah1776
2003-05-31 04:00:00 PDT Washington -- A federal judge ruled Friday that Iran was behind the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. servicemen, clearing the way for more than 600 of their relatives to collect financial damages against the Islamic republic.
In a 30-page decision that resulted from a lawsuit filed by the families, U. S. District Judge Royce Lamberth wrote that the terrorist group Hezbollah had carried out the attack at the behest of Iran and its Ministry of Information and Security.
"The approval of both the Ayatollah Khomeini and President Rafsanjani was absolutely necessary to carry out the continuing economic commitment of Iran to Hezbollah, and to execute the Oct. 23 attack," Lamberth wrote. "Given their positions of authority, any act of these two officials must be deemed an act of the government of Iran."
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Do you think the families of the Marines who sued Iran will be included in the deal?
Iran the biggest exporter of terrorism and some of these Dems are actually attacking Bibi for coming here to make a speech about the dangers his country faces when he was invited.
Stunning.
These idiots are nothing but anti Israel, anti free speech and closed minded to different opinions and facts.
If Bush had done half of what this administration had done then he would have been impeached and gone for ever.
Lest we forget.
Nice timing. :-D
Yes, I'm sure Barry & Kerry have had our soldiers' families in their minds when considering their (traitorous) Agreement with Iran.
BTW, who can tell me why this secret agreement would not constitute a "treaty" between the parties, requiring Senate approval? Thanks in advance.
HF
Robert Buchanan, Bayside High School Class of 1980.
RIP, Marine. God Bless You.
The treaty issue is being discussed, on fox anyway, and executive order was included in the same breath.
FINO Apologists for Hizbollah and Iran hardest hit!
They weren’t all Marines, Washington Pus.
Please don’t take this the wrong way. I am not insulting you but how could you not know that?
Two years after the bombing I was on station off the coast of Beirut with BLT 2/8. We were told we would be landing to evacuate civilians. We were VERY fired up and ready to go! We were hoping to get some payback against Hezbollah.
The morning we were supposed to land they cancelled it. We were very disappointed.
Pat Buchanan had a lot of White House influence around that time. Just sayin’.
always did my research only for hezbollah and the articles that came up, even historical, didn’t attribute the influence of Iran. I didn’t investigate hezbollah and the research is only within the last three years or so and not in depth. Thus the shock. I was in lala land until 9/11. Didn’t know about Free Republic until I heard it mentioned on Hannity and then I joined. Didn’t realize I was a conservative politically till then either. Very naive.
My daughter in law’s grandfather was a survivor. I’ve only been attached to the 1/8 since my son served with them since 2011.
Semper Fi.
ping!
I am, too! There was never any retaliation.
What's so frustrating is that they (iran) have been killing Americans in iraq and afghanistan, threaten to destroy us everyday and the traitor-in-chief is kissing their a$$.
Remember, we are the "great satan", Israel is our puppet, the "little satan".
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