Blog # 67 US Paratroopers Killed by the Muslim Brotherhood
By Hal Strunk, Retired Navy Captain and PhD
Are they forgotten? 241 paratroopers murdered by the Muslim Brotherhood.
I have spent a lot of time in Egypt. USCENTCOM exercises and studying at the US Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo. But today I couldn’t get something out of my mind.
I had some time off while I was working for Arabian Bechtel in Saudi Arabia, so I flew to Cairo to spend some time studying the diseases of the Middle East. I am an epidemiologist. I was working in the lab when a call came in for a problem in the Sinai. The men of the Fiji Battalion were being bitten by sandflies and they needed to know what to do. I was asked to fly over and solve their problem. I took an entomologist and a corpsman with me and we landed at Al-Arish. We were met by the Fijian CO. The preventive med techs of the 101st.Airborne heard of the problem and loaned me four Preventive Medical Techs. Problem with the infected sandflies is that they carry leishmaniasis, which if untreated can move into Kala Azar and could be fatal. Long story short, we solved their problem and returned to Cairo.
Here is the part I cannot forget. On December 12, 1985, their year was up and they were relieved by another unit. An Arrow Air charter was waiting for them at the airport in Cairo. They would be going back home to Fort Cambell in time for Christmas.
So, 241 paratroopers and eight crew members loaded and departed, They landed in Gander, Newfoundland to refuel. They rolled out and then fireballed at the end of the runway. With a full load of fuel, they were burned beyond recognition. And they were all carrying their medical and dental records.
Investigators in Cairo found that in the last seconds before closing the cargo hatch, five wooden crates were put on board. That was the explosives with a timer. That was done by the Muslim Brotherhood. Cairo is their home. No one ever paid a price.
Two years later I met a Forensic Anthropologist at CILHI, the Central Identification Laboratory at Hawaii, and she told me she was assigned to sort out these charred young men. She says she cannot sleep at night as she sees them. Further, she is under the care of a psychiatrist.
The takeaway from this is that Islam will never be your friend. It is a ‘religion’ of hate, not love, and their goal is total submission of everyone else. I lived with them for several years, and went back for a war. Their behavior in Europe, and even here, is totally unacceptable. Those who were let into this country have no intention of assimilating. Just know that.
PS; You might recall in 1981, the Muslim Brotherhood murdered Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. He and Menachen Begin of Israel met with President Carter at Camp David and they signed the Camp David Accords. There was a photo in the news of them stacking hands. Carter was awarded the Nobel Prize, but Sadat was murdered. Why? For shaking hands with a Jew.
How it happened was the army was parading for him, doing a Pass in Review. As one of the trucks was passing the grandstand, soldiers leaped out and began shooting into the crowd, killing Sadat and about a hundred innocents.
I arrived in Cairo the next day and went to the grandstand. Marble chips, shrapnel and blood all over the place. Nothing had been cleaned up. Nineteen members of the MB were arrested, hung and shot. The city was under Martial Law and soldiers were at every intersection. In time, Anwar Sadat was replaced with Egypt's top Air Force General Hosni Mubarak.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest of the Muslim Terrorist Groups. But know this; Islam means submission, and is not ever going to be your friend. They plan to outbirth and overwhelm every country they enter. Look at Dearbornistan, MI. Look at Epic City in Texas. Look at Europe. If they don't take some drastic action soon, they are lost to the coming Caliphate. And we had better figure out how to deport those who are here illegally. They have no plan to assimilate or become an American.
Hal
A tribute that brings it on…
NOTE: Harold Strunk: PhD and Hospital Administrator/Epidemiologist for Saudi Arabian Armed Forces Hospitals in Dhahran and Taif. Returned to the area with the US Navy Medical team in Desert Storm. Navy Project Officer for Chemical and Biological Warfare Defense. Retired US Navy Captain, 1994