Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Query: Shiite casualties in US naval bombardment Message-ID: <1280@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:11:11 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1280 Posted: Sat Jul 13 13:11:11 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 02:18:27 EDT References: <374@aurora.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ken Kopp's Fresh Seafood Tank Lines: 17 > If I remember correctly, the US Navy shelled the hills around Beruit for > a couple of weeks before the Marines were attacked with the truck bomb. Your memory is right on. > Recently, I saw a piece in the SF Chronical that indicated that the > villages shelled were Shiite. I remember TV pictures of destroyed houses > but I can't remember casualty figures. I think it was in the hundreds, and > I know the guns weren't spotted very well and therefore were probably > pretty inaccurate. In any case, if anyone knows how many Shiites were > killed and wounded or lost their homes to US naval gunfire I think the > net might be interested. It's obviously relevant to the recent hijacking. Who cares? They were ONLY Shiites. ``The Amuricans too, now have God on their side.'' Apologies to Bobby Zimmerman.