State sponsored terrorists usually keep their mouths shut. I don't recall any claim of responsibility for the Locherbie Scotland crash.
We spent years figuring that one out.
My guess on Flight 800 is payback from Iran.
>>My guess on Flight 800 is payback from Iran.<<
That's what I've always thought too. Too many people saw a bright light (or two lights) that looked like a flare, rising up from the horizon, followed by a muffled explosion (which they didn't see), to discount their testimony. I don't think a MANPAD was used though, something bigger. Something radar guided, with a proximity fused warhead. Something more in the size range of a SA-6, or Improved Hawk. The firing unit and targeting radar could have been secured to the deck of a relatively small ship and sailed into a pre-selected position in the aircraft's flight path. After the deed was done, the launcher and radar could have been pushed over the side , or in the case of a self-propelled unit like the SA-6, simply put in gear and driven over.
Was there any suspicious ship movement detected in the area that the rising light(s) appeared to come from?