Iran fined $2.65 billion for terrorism

[Aries331]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_go_ot/iran_terrorism

What does the following quotes say about our societies state of mind if the following was said with conviction?!!!!

"This is a sense of victory, of winning a battle," said Paul Rivers, who was a 20-year-old enlisted Marine on the second floor of the barracks when it exploded. "When we win the war is when we collect, when we make them pay for what they did."

Family members said they hoped Friday's ruling would pressure foreign governments not to sponsor terrorism. Lynn Smith Derbyshire, whose brother Vincent Smith was killed in the attack, said "Countries won't stop until it begins to actually cost them money to kill Americans."

I can't believe I missed the obvious, if we have enough money to throw at the worlds problems they will all disappear. My what a tangled web we weave to keep our sanity in the face of truth!!

 

[Laura]

Notice this:

The ruling allows nearly 1,000 family members and a handful of survivors to try to collect Iranian assets from various sources around the world. Finding and seizing that money will be difficult, however, and the families are backing a law in Congress that would make it easier for terrorism victims and their families to do so.

I just wonder when somebody is gonna take the USofA to court for all their evil deeds?

 

[Joe]

A political move if there ever was one. Why now? Why do the families of these soldiers get over 10 million each when the 9/11 victims families only got between 1 and 3 million? Why is that the finger of blame is not being pointed at the real culprits - Israel.

The Beirut bombing was "the largest non-nuclear explosion in history," according to General Paul X. Kelley, past-Commandant of the Marine Corps. What is not included in the official version of events - that both Iran and Syrian attacked the base with a truck loaded with 2000 pounds of "dynamite" - is the comments of ex Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky in his book "the other side of deception" wherein he states that Mossad had foreknowledge of the attack but chose not to tell the Americans.

“... the Mossad knew that ... there were only a few logical targets, one of which must be the U.S. compound. The question then was whether or not to warn the Americans to be on particular alert for a truck matching the description.

“The decision was too important to be taken in the Beirut station, so it was passed along to Tel Aviv, where [Nahum] Admony, then head of Mossad, decided they would simply give the Americans the usual general warning, a vague notice that they had reason to believe someone might be planning an operation against them. But this was so general, and so commonplace, it was ... unlikely to raise any particular alarm or prompt increased security precautions. ... One more would not heighten U.S. concerns or surveillance.

“Admony, in refusing to give the Americans specific information on the truck, said ‘... we’re not there to protect Americans. They’re a big country. Send only the regular information.’

“At the same time, however, all Israeli installations were given the specific details and warned to watch for a truck matching the description of the Mercedes.

This of course is what is known as a "limited hangout" a partial truth, it is code for the reality of the situation- that the Mossad had foreknowledge of the attack because they along with Israeli military intelligence carried out the bombing themselves.

The goal? The same as always: to demonise Arab nations as terrorists and to garner American backing for Israel's racist agenda in the Middle East. Not that any American administration ever needed much arm-twisting.

Carbon copy event? Of the many that preceded and followed the Beirut attack, the best known is September 11th 2001. You may remember that it is now common knowledge, if seldom heard on the airwaves in the US, that Israelis also had "foreknowledge" of the 9/11 attacks.

But no matter. Osama has a new black fake beard and is threatening the world, and incredibly people still cannot see through this immense pile of festering bovine excrement.

It truly beggars belief

Joe

 

[salleles]

Osama has a new black fake beard and is threatening the world, and incredibly people still cannot see through this immense pile of festering bovine excrement.

Actually, I sense a turnaround in The Netherlands Joe. Most people don't buy this rubbish anymore, or so it seems.

*keeps fingers crossed*

 

[JGeropoulas]

Quite a contrast to the "justice" obtained by the families of those Blackwater Security contractors butchered in Fallujah.

http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/134071-Blackwater+Heavies+Sue+Families+of+Slain+Employees+for+%2410+Million+in+Brutal+Attempt+to+Suppress+Their+Story

The families of four American security contractors who were burned, beaten, dragged through the streets of Fallujah and their decapitated bodies hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River on March 31, 2004, are reaching out to the American public to help protect themselves against the very company their loved ones were serving when killed, Blackwater Security Consulting. After Blackwater refused to share information about why they were killed, the families were told they would have to sue Blackwater to find out. Now Blackwater is trying to sue them for $10 million to keep them quiet...

Blackwater quickly adapted its battlefield tactics to the courtroom. It initially hired Fred F. Fielding, who is currently counsel to the President of the United States. It then hired Joseph E. Schmitz as its in-house counsel, who was formerly the Inspector General at the Pentagon. More recently, Blackwater employed Kenneth Starr, famed prosecutor in the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal, to oppose the families. To add additional muscle, Blackwater hired Cofer Black, who was the Director of the CIA Counter- Terrorist Center...

When the families' attorneys, Callahan & Blaine, obtained a Court Order to take the deposition of a former Blackwater employee with critical information about the incident, Blackwater quickly re-hired him and sent him out of the country. When the witness returned to the United States more than a year later, the families obtained another Court Order for his deposition. Blackwater again prevented them from taking his deposition by seeking the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office to block the deposition under the guise that he possibly possessed national secrets...

 

[Ruth]

Isn't that "nice": a looting and pillaging law.

 

[Rick]

I just wonder when somebody is gonna take the USofA to court for all their evil deeds?

In fact, they have. Iran took the US to the International Court of Justice over the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988. 290 people were killed. The captain of the ship was later given a medal, though it was found he was criminally negligent for the incident.
"On February 22, 1996 the United States agreed to pay Iran US$61.8 million in compensation ($300,000 per wage-earning victim, $150,000 per non-wage-earner) for the 248 Iranians killed in the shootdown, but not for the aircraft, which was estimated to be worth approximately US$30 million. This was an agreed settlement to discontinue a case brought by Iran in 1989 against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice.[17] The payment of compensation was explicitly characterised by the US as being on an ex gratia basis, and the U.S. denied having any responsibility or liability for the incident."