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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: American Hostages
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 14:39:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 14:39:08 1985
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> > > [Unknown]
> > > Personally, I think anyone voluntarily travelling to most of the middle east
> > > has to be out of their minds. That place is an insane asylum...
> > > -- 
> > [Ray Frank]
> > I don't think anyone goes to 'those' parts of the middle east on purpose any-
> > more.  If they do, they must realize that almost anything can and probably will
> > happen to them, especially if they're Americans.
> ---------------------------
> The above are gross exaggerations.  Outside of parts of Lebanon and the
> war zone on the Iran-Iraq border, Americans are safer in the Middle East
> than in many American cities after dark.  This has been true even in countries
> with hostile governments, such as Libya.  The danger to Americans in
> Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. etc. is statistically
> slight.  Remember, the famous hijacking took place in GREECE.
> -- 
> Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan

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Remember, the terrorists were from Lebanon.  The hostages were taken to Lebanon.
Several Americans were brutalized and one American was killed in Lebanon.