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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Query: Shiite casualties in US naval bombardment
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Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:11:11 EDT
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> 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.