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...Last week he gingerly distanced himself from Shultz's remarks, saying they were "not a statement of policy." Vice President George Bush was more adamant. "I don't agree with Shultz," said Bush. "We're not going to kill 100 innocent civilians just to kill one terrorist." Some felt that Shultz's speech may have been an attempt to frighten terrorists in Beirut out of launching a pre-election attack...
...possible failures of intelligence and other lapses leading up to the September bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, that was the conclusion of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week. Had a steel gate or some other barrier been installed to protect the approach to the building, the terrorist attack would probably not have been successful. The report adds that the relocation of the embassy headquarters from Muslim West Beirut to Christian East Beirut was progressing slowly and that the contractor hired to build a gate was preoccupied with other projects. The embassy staff apparently did not put enough...
...Senate report was seen by some as an implicit rebuke to the Defense Intelligence Agency, which leaked its own report critical of the State Department for not paying enough heed to DIA reports about potential terrorist activity. "We did not mean to come down on the State Department side," said a committee staffer, but, he added, "DIA, by leaking the report, did not help the debate...
Even the most ardent proponents of a conspiracy theory have assumed until now that the only would-be assassin in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981, was Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist apprehended seconds after the shooting. But when Martella was ordered to re-open the investigation into the assassination attempt in November 1981, there was already some uncertainty about whether two or three shots had been fired at the Pontiff. Confusion also surrounded a photograph, taken by a tourist immediately after the shooting, that shows a young man running from the square. That man, according...
...terrorist, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1981, has offered detailed descriptions of the Bulgarians' personal lives, even mentioning Antonov's fascination with his collection of liquor miniatures. But Agca also revised, retracted and contradicted many of his statements. As Martella said last week, "Agca is an unpredictable person capable of anything...