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Magazine article

By: Ron Eschmann

Date: October, 2003

Source: "Terror on Flight 847," as published in The Officer, a publication providing news and analysis of military science.

About the Author: Major Ron Eschmann is an Army staff officer assigned to the Office of the Chief Army Reserve.

INTRODUCTION

Since the overthrow of their biggest ally in the region, the Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in January 1979, United States policy in the Middle East has lurched from one crisis to the next. The Iranian hostage crisis, the burning of the Tripoli Embassy, several skirmishes with Libyan forces, the assassination of the pro-American Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and...