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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines — An explosion near an army camp where U.S. soldiers have been staying killed two people, including an American, and injured at least 16 on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said.
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Of course, they were in a bar...here is proof positive that the best place to kill an American overseas is in the local pub. ;)
 
Afghanistan, check, Iraq, check, Iran, Saudi Arabia, add Phillipines to the list.
 
I still remember when Khadaffi blew up that Berlin disco somewhere around 13 years ago. Things got a bit security tight at that point. The military hospital where I was born in Frankfurt was surrounded by a rather imposing 18 ft high green thick iron fencing.
 
do you also remember Reagan shoving an ICBM up his ass & *whoila* not a word since.
 
say what? I remember a few F 14 and F 111 raids smacking some chemical factories and the French embassy. A launch ICBM would have brought the world to DEFCON 2 in a heartbeat. Perhaps you are thinking of Tommahawks?
 
Ah... It was 1986. It killed 101 including an infant girl that was supposedly his newly adopted daughter. That was, I believe, an F-111 raid out of the UK.
 
Think unc is right on this one, Gonz. An ICBM would have been a bit overboard as the internationals would see it. The Jets couldn't get clearence from France for airspace access as it was. Funny how they happened to "accidently" hit the French embassy on that run... :D
 
1986 sounds about right. ICBM, Tomahawk, jets, whatever, it worked.

about the Fench-shit happnes :D
 
http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id249.htm

In January 1986 Gaddafi proclaimed a "line of death" across the Gulf of Sidra, warning that if American ships or planes crossed that line they would be destroyed. In March the U.S. responded with Operation Prairie Fire, consisting of 45 ships and 200 planes. Aircraft from the Sixth Fleet's three carriers, Saratoga, Coral Sea and America, made forays across the "line of death." Then three surface vessels crossed the line, supported by planes overhead and Los Angeles-class attack submarines beneath the surface. On Monday, March 24, the Libyans fired several SA-5 surface-to-air missiles, but none came close to hitting an American target because they were diverted by jamming devices carried by EA-6B Prowler aircraft. Vice Admiral Frank Kelso, Sixth Fleet's commander, waited until dark to respond. A pair of A-6 Intruders from the America hit a Libyan attack boat with HARMs (high-speed anti-radiation missiles). Several more Libyan vessels venturing near the fleet the following morning were struck, with one confirmed destroyed. Reagan congratulated the airmen and sailors of the Sixth Fleet, some of whom wore "Terrorist Buster" t-shirts and buttons, for a job well done, and on Thursday, March 28, the naval "exercises" were concluded. There were no American casualties; 56 Libyans had been killed.

A Newsweek poll revealed that three out of every four Americans believed the U.S. attacks on Libyan boats and missile batteries were justified, while two-thirds feared that Gaddafi would retaliate. On March 25, Gaddafi ordered his embassies (or "people's bureaus") in East Berlin, Paris, Rome and Madrid to carry out terrorist action against Americans. At a mass rally in Tripoli, Gaddafi declared Libya to be in a state of war with the United States, and the crowd was entertained with the slaughtering of an ox with Reagan's name painted on its side. Less than a week later, 21-year-old Army Sergeant Kenneth Ford of Detroit was slain when a bomb blast ripped through Berlin's La Belle discotheque, a nightclub frequented by American servicemen.
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On April 14, 1986 at 17:36 Greenwich Mean Time, twenty four F-111Fs of the USAF 48th Tactical Fighter Wing took off from the Royal Air Force base at Lakenheath, England. Twenty eight refueling tankers took to the air from bases at Mildenhall and Fairford, while five EF-111 Ravens equipped with high-tech jamming equipment soared skyward from a fourth base. Operation El Dorado Canyon was underway. The target: Libya. The American aircraft roaring through the English skies that evening were embarked on what would become the longest fighter combat mission in the history of military aviation, and the first major USAF combat mission in more than a decade.
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed off on the use of British bases in the operation, but Spain and France refused to grant American warplanes overflight permission; this meant the planes would have to fly 2,800 miles to reach their targets, and be refueled five times in the air. Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi spoke for many European leaders when he expressed concern that any American retaliation would simply trigger more terrorist acts in reprisal. But the Reagan administration was determined to act. It felt that someone had to take a stand against worldwide terrorism that had run rampant in the Eighties. Gaddafi and others like him, said the president, had to be given "incentives . . . to alter [their] criminal behavior."

Those "incentives" were provided on the evening of Monday, April 14, as the F-111s from the British bases joined a dozen A-6 strike aircraft launched from the carriers Coral Sea and America and thundered through Libyan anti-aircraft fire to drop more than 60 tons of laser-guided bombs on five targets. Five F-111s hit Gaddafi's barracks compound with sixteen 2,000-lb. Paveway II gravity bombs. Five more American warplanes struck the military sector of the Tripoli International Airport. Army barracks and an airfield at Benina and the naval port at Sidi Bilal were also bombed. The raid lasted eleven minutes. Four Libyan MIG-23 interceptors, five Il-76 transports and two Mi-8 Hip helicopters were destroyed. Libyan radio reported many casualties, including Gaddafi's 18-month-old adopted daughter Hana. An F-111 was destroyed by a Libyan SAM (surface-to-air missile); pilot Captain Fernando Ribas-Dominicci and weapons system officer Captain Paul Lorence were killed.
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I knew I would find it if I dug hard enough.
 
Also this line from the same page as the connector between the two acts: The National Security Agency used high-tech eavesdropping equipment to intercept three secret messages between Tripoli and European-based Libyan agents. Libya's diplomatic code had been broken, and the messages made it clear that Gaddafi was behind the bombing of the Berlin disco. On April 7, Reagan met with his chief aides to discuss an appropriate response to the Libyan terrorist act.

It mirrors what I said as an offhand comment in my first post.
 
unclehobart said:
http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id249.htm

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On April 14, 1986 at 17:36 Greenwich Mean Time, twenty four F-111Fs of the USAF 48th Tactical Fighter Wing took off from the Royal Air Force base at Lakenheath, England. Twenty eight refueling tankers took to the air from bases at Mildenhall and Fairford, while five EF-111 Ravens equipped with high-tech jamming equipment soared skyward from a fourth base.
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my dad remembers that night very well as he used to live close to both bases [under 10 miles to each]. the tankers in particular kept him up all night :rolleyes:
he said he knew then what was going on, way too much activity just for moving supplies and shit.
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The Phillipines is not on our list of terrorism supporters. In fact, they asked us to come there and train their army to fight terrorists. Seems they've had an on-going problem with Abu Sayyaf (sp?) kidnapping tourists for quick cash. Now, of course, Abu Sayyaf has a big problem.
 
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