Those Who Forget The Past...

Signaleer reminds us of Hezbollah's (and assorted Islamic terrorists') violent and deadly past regarding the US in Lebanon. Since these atrocities occured two decades before the Bush Administration took office, I'm not sure if liberals will include them in their revised histories of the United States:

12 April 1984, Spain--Eighteen US servicemen killed and eighty three people injured in bomb attack on restaurant near USAF base in Torrejon, Spain. Responsibility claimed by Hezbollah as revenge for March bombing in Beirut.

20 September 1984, Lebanon--Suicide bomb attack on US Embassy in East Beirut kills twenty three people and injures twenty one others. The US and British ambassadors were slightly injured in the explosion which was attributed to the Iranian backed Hezbollah group.

16 March 1985, Lebanon--US journalist Terry Anderson is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon, by Iranian backed Islamic radicals. He is finally released in December 1991.

9 June 1985, Lebanon--US academic, Thomas Sutherland, at the American University, Beirut, Lebanon kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and held until 18 November 1991.

14 June 1985, Lebanon--A Trans-World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for 17 days, during which one U.S. hostage, a U.S. Navy sailor, was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft was returned to Beirut after Israel released 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.

12 September 1986, Lebanon--US academic at the American University in Beirut Joseph Cicippio seized in Beirut by Iranian backed Islamic terrorists. He is eventually released on 1 December 1991.

21 October 1986, Lebanon--U.S. businessman Edward Tracy kidnapped in the Lebanon by Islamic terrorists and held for almost five years until 11 August 1991.

24 January 1987, Lebanon--U.S. citizens Jesse Turner and Alann Steen seized in Beirut by Islamic terrorists. Turner was held until 22 October 1991 and Steen is released on 3 December 1991.

14 November 1987, Lebanon--Seven people are killed and 37 injured by the explosion of a booby-trapped chocolate box in a wing of the American University in Beiruit.

17 February 1988, Lebanon--US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel W. Higgens, kidnapped and murdered by the Iranian backed Hezbollah while serving with the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organisation in southern Lebanon.

Cross-posted at the Jawa Report.