[news] CIA Terror Bombings

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...[I]n 1983...an American military barracks was bombed, killing 241 marines...That bombing was..."itself a bloody reprisal for earlier American acts of intervention and diplomatic betrayal in Lebanon's civil war"...CIA director **William Casey** decided...to undertake reprisals [and]...target a Shia cleric, **Muhammad Husain Fadlallah**, "because of his reputation for fiery sermons in favor of social justice and national independence"...The CIA did not just try to assassinate Muhammad Husain Fadlallah. Instead the Agency carbombed his entire neighborhood...Whether or not the cleric was the perpetrator, the message would be clear to all concerned: _attacks on American marines would result in retribution against the whole offending community._

  


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