Top military officials who gathered in Jacksonville, North Carolina, to mark the anniversary of the 1983 bombing noted the parallels between the Beirut attack and what is shaping up to be a new and tumultuous chapter in the Middle East.
The city of Jacksonville and Onslow Civic Affairs Committee are asking businesses and residents to display yellow ribbons to welcome families and survivors for the 40th anniversary of the Beirut
The shocking attempt to murder writer Salman Rushdie last Friday in New York wasn’t just a criminal attack on the author but probably also an Iranian-inspired (and possibly Iranian-directed) act of terrorism. Rushdie, after publishing the controversial 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses,” was targeted for death in a fatwa (or Islamic edict) issued in February 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader of Iran’s Islamic revolution.