AMERICANALMANAC (Melissa Gentry) - Iran's war on American troops started decades ago — and the families still waiting for justice prove it
Federal courts have held Iran liable for killing and maiming U.S. soldiers in Iraq with sophisticated weapons supplied through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, yet Tehran has never paid a dime, and the families who lost everything say Washington has failed them too. Nearly two decades before the current military confrontation with Iran, a weapon […] The post Iran's war on American troops started decades ago — and the families still waiting for justice prove it appeared first on American Almanac .
Federal courts have held Iran liable for killing and maiming U.S. soldiers in Iraq with sophisticated weapons supplied through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, yet Tehran has never paid a dime, and the families who lost everything say Washington has failed them too. Nearly two decades before the current military confrontation with Iran, a weapon known as an explosively formed penetrator tore through a U.S. Army armored Humvee on a Baghdad road called Route Pluto. The date was May 3, 2005. Staff Sgt. William Brooks died. Sgt. Robert Bartlett, the driver, survived, barely. Two other soldiers in the vehicle were wounded. The weapon that did it was not a crude roadside bomb cobbled together by insurgents. It was a precision-engineered…Open