ROME (AP) – A former Italian premier, in an interview published on Saturday, contended that a French air force missile accidentally brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed bid to assassinate Libya’s then leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Former two-time Premier Giuliano Amato appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to either refute or confirm his assertion about the cause of the crash on June 27, 1980, which killed all 81 persons aboard the Italian domestic flight.
In an interview with Rome daily La Repubblica, Amato said he is convinced that France hit the plane while targeting a Libyan military jet.
While acknowledging he has no hard proof, Amato also contended that Italy tipped off Gadhafi, and so the Libyan, who was heading back to Tripoli from a meeting in Yugoslavia, didn’t board the Libyan military jet. more here
UNRELATED BUT BRINGS BACK MEMORIES:
AFTER DROPPING OFF A AN ESCORTED TANKER IN THE GULF OF OMAN, WE GOT PULLED INTO SOME COMBAT ACTION IN THE STRAITS IF HORMUZ THAT THE USS VINCENNES HAD STIRRED UP WITH IRANIAN BOGHAMMERS…
IN THE “FOG OF WAR” VINCENNES CONFUSED THE BATTLE PICTURE AND MISTOOK A COMMERCIAL AIR FOR AN IRANIAN F14
THE COMM AIR WAS HEADED FROM BANDAR ABBAS IRAN TO DUBAI, SQUAWKING COMM AIR IFF, ON THE RIGHT FLIGHT PATH, STILL ASCENDING, AT ABOUT 7,600 FT
VINCENNES TOOK IT OUT WITH MISSILES, KILLED ALMOST 300 PASSENGERS, INCLUDING 66 CHILDREN
SHOULD’VE NEVER HAPPENED
VINCENNES CAME INTO THE GULF LIKE A BULLY IN A BAR, FUCKED AROUND, FOUND OUT
7/3/88
Benny,
That’s Tragic.
HI KCIR, CORRECT
THE VINCENNES CAME INTO THE GULF LATE IN THE GAME, FLEXING THEIR “MUSCLE”
THE GULF WAS LARGELY DEECONFLICTED BY THEN, ESPECIALLY AFTER 4/18/88 OPERATION PRAYING (NOT MISSPELLED) MANTIS
REMINDS ME OF THE MEME “AND THEN THERE’S THIS ASSHOLE!!!”
HAVE A GREAT NIGHT NORTH OF YHE 49TH!!
So 0bama and Cankles took out Khadaffi while violating the War Powers Act, bravo. Not even a whiff of scandal and all that.
Hey, anyone else remember Yosemite Saddam and Khadaffi Duck from the 80s?