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2005-11-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-02 09:12|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Islamic militants took 52 American hostages inside the embassy on 4 November 1979 to demand the extradition of the Shah, in the US at the time for medical treatment, to face trial in Iran.

In the future I think this is the day we will recognize as the start of the current World War we are in.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-11-02 10:39|| 2005-11-02 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Iran remembers US embassy siege

Some of us remember too. And our military's institutional memory makes Iran's look like the attention span of a fruit fly.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-02 12:39|| 2005-11-02 12:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Cheaderhead: Right you are. More unfinished business back to haunt us. In retrospect, when the Gipper finally got the hostages out, we should have rubblized the embassy with a very large nuke.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-02 16:18|| 2005-11-02 16:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Who says we still can't? Or at least a good JDAM / Daisycutter (too bad the state-sponsored 'protest' is over...)

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-11-02 16:20|| 2005-11-02 16:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Did they invite Nobel Prize Winner, James Earl Carter, to be a guest speaker? After all, it was he, who more than anyone, made this day possible.

Posted by RWV 2005-11-02 16:29|| 2005-11-02 16:29|| Front Page Top

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