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Iran Air A300 Airbus : US-style Justice for Iran

category international | crime and justice | other press author Tuesday July 06, 2010 11:54author by non-voterauthor email thackeraddy at gmail dot com

Iranians gather to remember US terrorist outrage on civilian airliner


In 1990, America’s President George H. W. Bush awarded William C. Rogers III, the Legion of Merit for his service as a commanding officer in the US navy. Two years previously Rogers had been the commander of the USS Vincennes when the warship shot down an Iranian civilian aircraft over the Persian Gulf killing all 290 people aboard . On the twenty-second anniversary of the atrocity last Saturday, relatives of the victims sailed to the spot where Iran Air A300 Airbus came down. In a message read out at the ceremony, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked :
"In which culture ... can that Legion of Merit be awarded to the criminal USS Vincennes commander."

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