Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Myths destroyed Message-ID: <1267@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 17:47:18 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1267 Posted: Tue Dec 11 17:47:18 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 20:15:40 EST References:Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 25 Summary: > 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 {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt