Iran’s defence chief tied to Beirut bombing of U.S. Marines

Iran Focus ^ | 8/14/05 | na

[canadianally]

London, Aug. 14 - The nomination of a veteran commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as the new defence minister has been greeted with calls for an investigation into his possible ties to the suicide bombing of the U.S. Marines compound in Beirut airport in October 1983, which killed 241 Americans.

[canadianally]

Interesting.......

[bnelson44]

I don't think there is anything concrete yet on this.

[willyd]

there are no terrorists in Iran...only peaceful electricity makers and peace loving people of the only real god Allah.

[willyd]

Actually, there are pictures of him standing right in the background when the bombers were arrested.

[Sthitch]

Nothing about the mad mullahs surprises me.

[M. Espinola]

The murderous Iranian régime has a lot of payback forth coming.

[willyd]

excuse me..not bombers...political prisoners.

[A CA Guy]

Shouldn't America send a personal greeting to that terrorist?

[Kuehn12]

If he is guilty of this crime then it is the wrath of god, and he should find a bomb in the bathroom. Evil must know that justice will find them, no matter where they are or how long it has been. Americans died in Beirut, not Bosnians, Iraqis or any other nationality. If we send our boys to died for strangers, what more should we do for our own people.

[Salvey]

I will ask my perennial question: why are people like this still walking around? The old KGB would see to it that he died in his sleep of natural causes. Where are our killer spooks?

[sheik yerbouty]

Time for payback..

[blam]

"Where are our killer spooks?"

Ask Frank Church.

[kimosabe31]

If we send our boys to die for strangers, what more should we do for our own people?

The reason they (marines) were in Beruit in the first place was...ironically...to rescue the maggot sociopath arafat and his maggot PLO terrorists from certain annihilation by the IDF. Had Pres Reagan NOT sent the US Navy/Marine Corps to the rescue, the world could have been rid of arafat 22 years ago and 241 US Marines would not have died at Beruit. I never could understand what the hell Reagan was doing rescuing arafat.

[Cobra64]

Where are our killer spooks?

I thin a lot of us are asking the same question. Probably attending a Washington DC, Politically Correct 101 class.

[Sonar5]

Religion of Peace... Blah...Blah...Blah......

Can we please start wiping out these thugs over there...

[Finalapproach29er]

Bob Baer talked about this in his book.

He proved/tied it to Iran.

When is payback time? It's been over two friggin decades.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The PLO had already been evacuated by 30 August 1982. The Marines returned to their ships on 10 September 1982. The Marines were redeployed on 23 September 1982 to Beirut after the assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel, the slaughter of Palestinian refugees by the Christian Phalangists and the Israelis invading West Beirut. The MNF was composed of the Marines, Italian and French troops and were later joined by a small British force.

241 US Marines would not have died at Beruit.

220 Marines, 18 sailors, 3 soldiers were killed on 23 October 1983. A total of 267 American servicemen were killed in Beirut.