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To: Jeff Head

Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Christian with Jordanian citizenship.

The 1972 PanAm 747 was hijacked on a flight from Hong Kong to Saigon by a North Vietnamese sympathizer. The highjack to Cairo was 1970.


35 posted on 05/24/2013 8:19:36 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: stuartcr
I remember some of the details of the Sirhan Sirhan case, being a teenager when he killed RFK.

He was born and raised in a Palstinain home whose parents professed Christianity, but people familiar with them at the time indicated that their family life was more akin to a muslim home. In addition he was schooled, and radicalized through Jordanian textbooks that demonized Jews as "animals," and called to "liberate" the Muslim holy places and Muslim lands. He said himself that he was inspired by a teacher who taught him about the Arab warrior Saladin.

So he may have been born into a Christian home...one that apparently operated very similarly to a Muslim home at the time...but he IMHO he was radicalized by Islamics teachings and ended up acting out those teachings just like an Islamic terrorist.

As to the Pan Am flight, there just isn't much information on it, except the historical note written by the wife of the captain who said the hijacker was a North Vietnamese sympathiser...which I do not doubt, but we know nothing else about him. I am going to remove that one from the list on my page, put a note in there about Sirhan Sirhan, and change the date of the Cairo one.

Thanks for the input!

47 posted on 05/24/2013 10:31:40 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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