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I do see that on p. 211 Simson says he feels that Lockerbie is more
appropriately thought of as a military action even though the public does not
see it that way. However, almost nobody sees it that way - not the press,
not the US Government. It is not helpful to have an intelligent and generally
reliable writer justify letting the Pan Am bombing go unmentioned - based on
what is an almost private use of the language.
(The Marine barrack bombing killed even more - but it is generally recognized
that that was a military target - foreign soldiers in a quasi-occupation
capacity - quite different from civilians).
Simson also states on p. 211 that the Lockerbie bombing "was probably
retaliation for the U.S.bombing of of Tripoli." There is simply not an iota of
evidence for that. In fact all of the evidence - gathered in ways Simson would
quite appreciate (i.e., NSA evesdropping on telecommunications) pointed to Iran
as the instigator of the bombing. Yes, the US State department has found it
politically expedient to repeat the "Libya revenge for Tripoli" story ad
nauseum - but without any supporting evidence. If Simson is so inclined to
accept at face value whatever the State Department says, why does he quibble
with their endlessly-repeated description of Lockerbie as a "terrorist attack"?
They sure are not buying the Simson view that it was a "military action."
It's certain that none of this is germane to Simson's arguments - but accuracy
is a virtue in itself.
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At the end of the first paragraph the author refers to the Oklahoma City Bombing as "the most murderous act of terrorism in U.S.history." More people
were actually killed in the Lockerbie bombing - 259 vs 168. Even if you wish
to consider only Americans, Lockerbie is still more (189). It was certainly in
American history - it was an American airline - in fact the US "flag carrier"
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Simson and I are contemporaries (I worked with him on The Tech), but
somehow he and I have a different historical memory. My first computer
terminal was a Model 33 Teletype, and I clearly remember it as having
72 columns, not 80. Thanks to the wonderful web, I don't even need to
rely on my memory: http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw/ttybr-4.jpg is a scan of
the relevant page of the product brochure, showing the 72 column width.
Now, admittedly, this wasn't the first Teletype, which is what your
aside makes its claim about. However, given that the earlier Teletypes
were used for human-to-human communications, rather than computer
terminals, and the Model 33 was the one that caught on in a big way as
a computer terminal, I can't imagine that they reduced it from an
earlier 80 column width to 72 in this model.
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