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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Myths destroyed
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 17:47:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 17:47:18 1984
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> Gee, wouldn't the world be great if things and events fit into the
> popular myths. Alas, the world is not black and white. What happened
> this week?
>  1) A Kuwaiti jet was hijacked to Iran
>  2) Passengers on board were terrorized.
>  3) Two Americans on board were murdered.
>  4) The big-talk fast-shooting Reagan regime sat by totally impotent.
>  5) Brave men of the rather nasty Khomeni regime risked their
>     own lives by storming the plane and freeing the hostages.

According to an analyst interviewed on last night's news, it seems
very likely that the Iranian troops were faking the assault on the
plane, largely for impact on the world TV audience.  He made several
points, but among them are (i) no-one storms a hijacked plane by a
single obvious entrance; (ii) there was no need for smoke, except
to ensure that the TV cameras did not see what was happening; (iii)
there was no need to appear to beat up a hijacker on the tarmac
except for the TV cameras.  There were other more technical points,
which I forget.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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