James G
Gone Fishin'
Fairly sure that using lethal CW on civilians was not within the allowed basket of actions by a nation state.[/QUOTE]---------------------------------------------------------------------
You cannot believe every story if you only heed the popular press.
Sometimes back stories are more informative than headlines.
As explained by an Iranian-born co-worker: when Saddam Huissen gassed Kurds, he was getting revenge. One version of the story has Iranian soldiers shooting up an Iraqi Army garrison in Northern Iraq then disappearing back across the border. Since Kurds had no love for Saddam, they allowed Iranian soldiers free passage. Saddam enacted his revenge by gassing Kurdish villagers.
OTOH Lockerbie was a purely military hit ..... with ..... um ........ er ........ a few hundred collateral civilian casualties, as explained by a retired USAF Combat Controller. He and his buddies have just completed surveys of dozens of potential landing strips in North Africa. A USAF CC was flying home - with survey results in his briefcase - when his plane was shot down over Lockerbie, Scotland.
A few years later a Libyan military intelligence officer was imprisoned for planting a bomb on that airliner.
@CalBear I don't understand your post here. Have you quoted something and there is a formatting error?
EDIT: Mine is now wrongly formatted too.