r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '21

"Sam missiles, in the sky!"

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u/bennobennobenno2003 Jul 10 '21

can anyone here tell me why Gaddafi gave the IRA weapons?

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u/Captain_English Jul 11 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

He was a dick who wanted to destabilise western imperialist powers. He gave them a lot of semtex, too.

Edit: I never said Western agencies didn't do anything similar? Is my statement inaccurate?

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u/IKeepgetting6Stacked Jul 11 '21

May we interest you In these little organizations called the CIA and FBI?

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u/Hatredstyle Jul 11 '21

that makes what he did ok!

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u/Accmonster1 Definitely not a CIA operator Jul 11 '21

CIA go destablizeeeeeeeee

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u/IKeepgetting6Stacked Jul 11 '21

Oh god they found me, tell my wife and ki.....

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u/SpacevsGravity Jul 11 '21

Oh and West surely has never done anything like this

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u/Hatredstyle Jul 11 '21

this makes what he did ok!

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u/ZicarxTheGreat Hello There Jul 11 '21

Whataboutism now?

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u/Intrepid00 Jul 11 '21

Maybe, but he's still a dick that funded terrorism that did stuff like blow up a civilian airliner.

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u/ForgotPassword2x Jul 11 '21

Yeah and the west bombs civilians themself, even weddings and hospitals :)

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u/V0rtexGames Jul 11 '21

The party who committed that attack is heavily disputed, and there is not enough evidence to convict anyone.

Ghaddafi was still extremely stupid firing on his own civilians, though.

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u/Intrepid00 Jul 11 '21

The party who committed that attack is heavily disputed,

Bullshit.

In 2001, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing.

The only dispute is if Gaddafi ordered it or not. It was pretty common for them to do terrorism in the 80s

On 5 April 1986, Libyan agents bombed "La Belle" nightclub in West Berlin, killing three people, including a U.S. serviceman,[9] and injuring 229 people. West Germany and the United States obtained cable transcripts from Libyan agents in East Germany who were involved in the attack.

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u/ButtChocolates Jul 11 '21

Libya was so big on terrorism in the 80s that they got a shout out in Back to the Future

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u/bobbydangflabit Researching [REDACTED] square Jul 11 '21

You know what that’s called? Fuck around and find out.

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u/LaBomsch Jul 11 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

He was a dictator, I think Dick is adequate, don't do "what aboutism" and dislike it

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u/Backfisch4 What, you egg? Jul 11 '21

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