1. Did you know that well over 20 airliners have been downed by MANPADs? 26 in all, actually, counting TWA 800. You are being disingenuously naive.
2. You must know that the CIA supplied Stingers to the Mujahadeen to counter Soviet Hinds (MI-24s), and then began to worry if the Stingers “should fall into the wrong hands”. Some of the Stingers wound up for sale in Kabul arm's bazaars, going for 10x their actual price, and more. The CIA went over there trying to outbid the bidders, but failed, as the quote I included, above, notes.
3. You wrote: “What does Iran have to do with this?” Besides financing terrorists, you mean? Recall that at one recent time, Iran was at the very top of the list of “Rogue States,” and was castigated from the floor of Congress by Newt Gingrich in such terms that caused great distress and insult in Teheren.
Recall too that you said there was not one single, plausible motive to cover-up the shootdown. I have presented three, and there are more.
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