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The Bear River Massacre was a surprise attack. The leaders of the Shoshone had failed to properly prepare for the attack because they believed they could negotiate a truce with the troops led Col. Patrick Edward Connor.
"Nawar was shot several times, with one bullet piercing her neck. She was bleeding for two hours because it was not possible to get her medical attention,“ Nawar's uncle Ammar Al-Aulaqi said.
Capt. Will Rogers III, who commanded the USS Vincenees, which attacked the airliner was described by others Navy officers as “aggressive”, “trigger happy”, and looking to gain combat experience, even if it meant committing war crimes.
At 4am on Feb. 13, two US F-117s dropped 2 laser-guided “smart bombs” on the shelter. The 1st, pierced the fortified concrete wall of the shelter, jamming its thick steel doors & trapping everyone inside. The 2nd bomb followed through first hole & exploded deep inside the shelter
"Nawar was shot several times, with one bullet piercing her neck. She was bleeding for two hours because it was not possible to get her medical attention,“ Nawar's uncle, Ammar Al-Aulaqi said.
George H. W. Bush began the war by ordering 42 days of consecutive bombing of Iraq. US and coalition aircraft flew over 100,000 missions, dropping 85,000 lbs of bombs on Iraq, making it one of the most intensive aerial bombardments in military history.
The operation was designed to prevent a US base at Khe Sanh, falling to the communist Vietnamese forces. President Lyndon Johnson ordered that the base must be held at all cost.
US President John F. Kennedy personally approved “Operation Ranch Hand” in 1962, beginning the spraying of Agent Orange (and other chemicals) over 5 million acres of jungle and 500,000 acres of crops, including over 20,000 spray flights.
After a series of treaties forced the Dakota onto tiny pieces of land and promised US compensation never arrived, Dakota were facing starvation in Minnesota’s long, freezing winter. As a result, some of the Dakota attempted to fight back to save their people and their way of life
During the invasion, US troops systematically torched homes, ran over civilians, conducted systematic executions of both civilians and soldiers in the street and paid people to dump the bodies in mass graves. Other unidentified bodies were piled up in the streets and burned.
Fred Hampton had been drugged by an F.B.I. informant and was unconscious next to his 8-month pregnant partner when police raided Hampton’s apartment, firing a hail of bullets in the apartment.
The massacre—which lasted 5 hours and involved two squads of Marines—was immediately followed by a cover-up. The Marines dropped the dead bodies off at a hospital, claiming they’d been killed in the roadside bombing.
Abdulrahman’s grandfather, described him as “a typical teenager — he watched “The Simpsons,” listened to Snoop Dogg, read “Harry Potter” and had a Facebook page with many friends. He had a mop of curly hair, glasses like me and a wide, goofy smile.”
The US government maintained for decades that the order to kill Che came from Bolivian leadership, but US gov documents released through FOIA show that the order for the kill operation came directly from the White House. 
On October 6, 1976, two bombs exploded on the flight 455 headed from Barbados to Jamaica just 11 minutes after take-off. The bomb was disguised as Colgate toothpaste in a suitcase. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2…
The bombing took place despite the fact that MSF had provided the GPS coordinates of the hospital to the US Coalition just days before the attack. The attack also continued for 30 min. after MSF alerted US officials the hospital had come under attack.
In 2015, the legendary journalist Robert Parry found secret congressional documents referring to Jimmy Carter’s “Green Light” for Saddam’s invasion. 
The junta established martial law, abolished political parties, trade unions and democratic rights. Hundreds of thousands were tried for the "crime" of belonging to a political organization or had their citizenship revoked & were denied passports. 30,000 fled as refugees.
Upon Salvador Allende’s election victory in 1970, the CIA immediately began working to destabilize his government, viewing it as being too close to communists. The CIA spread propaganda through the press, facilitated economic destabilization and organized labor strikes/protests.
The US attack included a drone strike & a barrage of howitzer fire from an AC 130 gunship, which killed 60 children aged 3 months to 16 years old as they slept. “It was a heartbreaking scene,” said Mohammad Iqbal Safi, head of the Afghan parliamentary defense committee.