1988 - the invasion of American troops in Honduras in order to protect terrorist movement contras, which for many years attacked from there on Nicaragua. Troops went from Honduras to this day. 1988 - USS Vincennes, stationed in the Persian Gulf, was hit by a missile Iranian plane with 290 passengers on Board, among them 57 children. The plane just took off and was not even in the international space, and over Iranian territorial waters. When the ship Vincennes returned to their base in California, huge jubilant crowd met him with banners and balloons, a brass band of the Navy played on the waterfront marches, and with the ship from the speakers included at full capacity, raced bravura music. Standing in the roads warships saluted heroes artillery salvos. C. Kara-Murza writes about the content of articles in American Newspapers dedicated him to the Iranian plane: I Read the article, and the mind boggles. The plane was shot out of good intentions, and passengers have not died in vain, for Iran may slightly change their mind... Instead of apologies Bush senior said: I will never apologize for the United States. I dont care about the facts. The captain of the cruiser Vincennes was awarded with the medal for bravery. Later the us government fully admitted his guilt in the incident inhuman actions. However, to date, the U.S. has not fulfilled its obligations on compensation of moral and material damages to relatives of victims as a result of this unprecedented act. In addition, this year the US bombed oil refineries in Iran.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:53:56 +0000
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