Posted on 03/11/2017 11:11:28 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
We should remember it because it was one of the first acts of serious domestic terrorism”
Long before Osama bin Laden’s lieutenants flew a hijacked commercial airliner into the Pentagon on 9/11, Muslim terrorists carried out an attack in the heart of Washington, D.C.
This week in 1977 armed Islamic militants invaded three Washington, D.C. buildings and took almost 150 people hostage, radio station WTOP reminds us. During the three-day siege that took place on March 9, 10, and 11, a few weeks after Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the nation’s new president, Hanafi Muslims killed two men and nonfatally wounded another. (More information on Hanafi Islam is available here.)
Was this the group protesting the movie MOHAMMED THE MESSENGER OF GOD movie?
I mean, THE MESSAGE (1976). A film about mohammed.
And the media threw it into the trash barrel of history, never again mentioning it.
But they remind us of things that fit their agenda.
F the media.
I remember the movie and the “controversy” about it.
I didn’t remember hostages and murders.
I was in high school.
“And the media threw it into the trash barrel of history, never again mentioning it.”
Good point.
Although, they did go back to this later as a justification for murdering a US Ambassador in Benghazi.
Wow. I am old enough to have heard about this in the news, so why don’t I remember hearing about this? It must have been considered faux news and been blocked out by abc, nbc and cbs the only news networks at the time as I remember it. Was CNN even around then? Of course, back then, TV stations shut down at midnight, so there was no all night news or anything else all night on TV. Also you had to watch the news at its scheduled time or you missed it. How times have changed. I remember when it was a big thing back in the 70s that a local TV station, started playing a midnight Friday night movie which eventually expanded to the weekend midnight Friday and Saturday movies.
Yes back then it was easy to suppress the news.
I'm scratching my head to try to remember if those were my acid daze or not.
I never heard of it, but it's in wicki;
No one could prove Farrakhan was involved with the murders, but a lot of people thought he was.
I don’t recall...at all!
We had a passenger jet collide with a small private plane in San Diego,
around that time.
IIRC.
40 Years Ago Terrorists Took Over The D.C. Council And Shot Marion Barry
I’m old enough to remember and forget it and I don’t remember it! We were in the Philippines
during that time period so maybe that’s why. We only got
news on AFRTS and the Air Force Times. Very limited.
As I recall, one of their hostages was the late, great coke huffer Marion Barry.
A lot of unintended presageful stuff about the press here along with a lot of BS by the press.
Interesting! Brings back memories.
Does Matthew Vadum know he’s writing for a blog called Canada Free Press?
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