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To: Swordmaker
I still think flight 800 was shot down by Cuba.

U.S. condemns Cuban's downing of planes

Clinton considers sanctions (February 25, 1996)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton was considering a series of punitive steps against Cuba Sunday, one day after Cuban military aircraft shot down two unarmed private planes carrying four members of a Cuban exile group called Brothers to the Rescue.
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"A missile hit the airplane and just blew it to pieces," said one man shortly after disembarking from the Majesty of the Seas. "Hardly any wreckage. No debris."

Clinton signs bill aimed at Cuba

Helms-Burton measure tightens sanctions (March 12, 1996)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Saying it "will strengthen the embargo in a way that advances the cause of freedom in Cuba," President Clinton signed the Helms-Burton Bill into law on Tuesday, capping a bi-partisan effort to tighten sanctions against the communist island nation.

Congress passed the measure after the Cuban military shot down two U.S. civilian planes over the Straits of Florida on February 24, killing four members of the Cuban-American exile group, Brothers to the Rescue. Clinton dedicated the bill to their memory

4 posted on 07/09/2002 5:37:41 PM PDT by syriacus
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To: syriacus
That is certainly a unique argument... however, I don't see any evidence that Cuba was behind the downing of TWA-800. Cuba has a reputation of shooting at small, unarmed private planes that invade its airspace, not commercial jumbo jets off of Long Island.
5 posted on 07/09/2002 5:49:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: syriacus
"I still think flight 800 was shot down by Cuba."....

It was knocked out of the sky by either Sammy Sosa or Barry Bonds.

OKC, Flight 800, 587......all the same. Ashcroft won't tell the truth........how can he? end of the Republic......

16 posted on 07/09/2002 11:58:58 PM PDT by ChasingFletch
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To: syriacus
BTTT
25 posted on 09/05/2002 4:05:56 PM PDT by timestax
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To: syriacus
bump
46 posted on 10/21/2002 4:34:52 PM PDT by timestax
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