The politically incorrect explanation of the 1996 TWA incident is: We gave surface to air missiles to Muslim misfits in Afghanistan. They gave a few to other Muslim misfits, who managed to smuggle them into the USA. TWA was carrying some Egyptian military after being trained in the US, the militant Muslims, probably Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, launched that surface to air heat seeking missile. The US was too embarrassed to admit that within our territory, we were attacked.
If it was a Chinese/Russian missile don’t you think that they would be bragging about it? the same thing with the twa 800 missile theory...if terrorist shot down something like that they would be on the news bragging about it...the first principle of terrorism is to terrorize...not to be silent about it...and the batteries on stinger missiles last only four to five years...