Official War With Iran Thread
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88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Interesting
aren't they really just maintaining the status quo?
Looks like the US is committed in de-escalation as Mike Pompeo and Trump said.More airstrikes=de-escalation
Makes sense
aren't they really just maintaining the status quo?
Hood Critic
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Hood Critic
The Power Circle
Clearly as we can see.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Tell me how this is defensible? Your "superior" society
Iranian woman dies after setting herself on fire in protest at possible jail sentence for watching football
nytimes.com
CAR BOMBER FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO KILL LEADER OF KUWAIT
By United Press International
7-8 minutes
Credit...The New York Times Archives
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May 26, 1985, Section 1, Page 1Buy Reprints
A suicide driver rammed a bomb-laden car into the motorcade of the Kuwaiti leader today, killing himself, two bodyguards and a passer-by in an unsuccessful assassination attempt, Kuwaiti officials said.
A caller saying he represented the shadowy terrorist group known as Islamic Holy War took responsibility for the attack. The group has demanded the release of 17 convicted terrorists from Kuwaiti prisons in exchange for at least four Americans and two Frenchmen kidnapped in Lebanon.
Islamic Holy War has issued a crescendo of threats in recent weeks, including vows to attack American diplomats and a warning that it would open ''the largest military operation'' the United States ''has ever seen.''
On Way to a Cabinet Meeting
The attack today came as Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait, was being driven to the waterfront Al Sif Palace for a Cabinet meeting, Kuwait security sources said.
The 57-year-old ruler of the strategically located Persian Gulf emirate, one of Washington's leading Arab allies, was wounded by shards of glass, the Kuwaiti sources said. He was taken to a hospital, where four doctors treated him for facial cuts and bruises.
Sheik Jaber walked out unassisted a few hours later and spoke to the nation of about 1.5 million people in a two-minute televised address.
'I Am in Good Health'
''Thanks to God, I am in good health,'' he said, ''and such criminal acts will not dissuade me or Kuwait from continuing to work for the prosperity of our people, as well as the Arab and Islamic nation.''
An Arabic-speaking caller to a Western news agency in Beirut took responsibility for the attack in the name of Islamic Holy War.
''The Emir has received our message,'' the caller said. ''We ask him again to liberate our comrades held in Kuwaiti jails - otherwise all the thrones of the gulf will be targeted.'' Two of Sheik Jaber's bodyguards and an unidentified pedestrian were killed, the security sources said. Twelve people suffered cuts and bruises in the attack, which occurred at 9:15 A.M.
At least one car in the motorcade was damaged, diplomats said, and the rest of the cars sped away to the hospital.
''While the Emir was on the way to his office at Al Sif Palace,'' the Interior Ministry said, ''a car parked in the middle curb of the street attempted to storm the motorcade.'' The car hit the first vehicle in the motorcade and then exploded, the ministry said.
''The Emir of Kuwait left the hospital at 1:30 P.M. after the medical committee which supervised his treatment established that he is enjoying perfect health,'' a Government statement said.
Islamic Group's Demands
Sheik Jaber, a former Prime Minister who has been Emir since 1977, made no direct reference to Islamic Holy War in his speech. But political analysts in the oil-rich sheikdom said it was unlikely he would agree to the group's demands.
''Kuwait will not give in to any threats or blackmail,'' Sheik Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, said today.
On May 15, Islamic Holy War issued what it called a ''last warning'' to Washington and Kuwait, demanding the release of 17 Shiite Moslem extremists convicted of bombing the United States and French embassies and other targets in Kuwait in December 1983. Seven people were killed in the bombings and dozens wounded.
Islamic Holy War, which is believed to have ties to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime in Teheran, issued its May 15 warning in the Lebanese capital and sent a Beirut newspaper pictures of four Americans and two Frenchmen kidnapped in Lebanon between March 1984 and March 1985.
The grainy photographs, taken against different backdrops, showed Terry A. Anderson, 37 years old, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press; William Buckley, 56, a United States Embassy official; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a 60-year-old Presbyterian minister; the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, 50, a Roman Catholic priest, and the French diplomats, Marcel Fontaine, 45, and Marcel Carton, 62.
No Mention of Librarian
None of the statements mentioned Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who was reported missing Dec. 3.
Islamic Holy War said the Westerners would be released if Kuwait freed the imprisoned Shiites. If it did not, the group said, there would be ''terrible consequences.''
Two days later, another caller claiming to represent Islamic Holy War warned of a ''hell on earth for Kuwaiti diplomats around the world'' if the 17 prisoners were not released.
Another caller in Beirut said Islamic Holy War was responsible for a dynamite attack in the Saudi capital of Riyadh a week ago that killed one person and wounded three. ----Arabs Send Messages to Emir NICOSIA, Cyprus, May 25 - Leaders of other moderate Arab states sent messages of support to the Emir after the attack in Kuwait.
Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan said the Emir had been the target of ''cowardly aggression by allies of Satan.'' The Crown Prince was acting for his brother, King Hussein, who is visiting the United States.
Other messages came from President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, President Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Sheik Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa, the Emir of Bahrain.
Rulers of Persian Gulf states have expressed concern that their countries could prove fertile ground for attempts to spread Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution.
Kuwait has been considered particularly vulnerable because two-thirds of its population is made up of foreigners, many of them Iranian-born Shiites.
Security in Kuwait has been increased since the 1983 bombings, with sandbags, barricades and military emplacements set up around Government buildings and Western embassies.
A version of this article appears in print on May 26, 1985, Section 1, Page 1 of the National edition with the headline: CAR BOMBER FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO KILL LEADER OF KUWAIT.
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Hood Critic
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It's not at all defensible but it is akin to a foreign nation intervening is criminal drug and conspiracy cases against black and brown people in this country. It's wrong what is happening to our people but it is an American issue to address, no one else's.Tell me how this is defensible? Your "superior" society
Iranian woman dies after setting herself on fire in protest at possible jail sentence for watching football
afterlife2009
Superstar
Was cracking tf up when I saw this on my timeline. This dude robbed #Resistance Twitter's wallets and will now morph into anything now
Trump out here sweeping the streets 
Leftist have no successes outside of liberal strongholds. You guys in NYC, Nova,and DC are so far out of touch with reality at times.
Over the past 3 years I've watched you all go from saying progressives like Bernie are merely running on popular policy Americans want to now what appears to be a political group merely happy attempting to shift the Overton window.