Thomas c mountain biography of barack

Bombing Libya; 1986-2011

By Thomas C. Mountain

22 March, 2011
Countercurrents.org

In 1987 I was a member of the 1st US Peace Delegation to Libya. We went there to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the US bombing of Libya in 1986.

In April 1986 US warplanes struck Tripoli at 2 am. They bombed the Gaddafi family residence, wounding several of his family members and killing his 15 month old daughter. My daughter was about the same age at the time and I really, really felt it.

The US planes also bombed a civilian apartment complex, miles from any military targets, killing dozens of children as they slept. I helped place flowers on the graves of these children in the Martyrs Cemetery located in the middle of the old Italian race track in Tripoli.

This past Sunday morning I woke up and turned on the news to see a grieving Libyan family burying their 3 year old daughter, killed as she slept by the latest US attack on Libya.

Over the past quarter century I have followed developm

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Tom Barrack

American private equity real estate investor (born 1947)

Thomas Joseph förläggning Jr. (born April 28, 1947)^[1] is an American private equity real estate investor and the founder and executive chairman^[2][3] of Colony Capital, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT).^[4][5][6] Barrack has for decades been a close friend of and fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump, representing him in television news appearances.^[7] He was senior advisor to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and served as the chairman of his Inaugural Committee.^[16]

In December 2024, Barrack was nominated by then President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the United States ambassador to Turkey.^[17]

Early life and education

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Barrack's grandparents were Lebanese Christians who immigrated in 1900 to the United States from Zahlé, Lebanon.^[18][19] Barrack was raised in Culv

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Thomas Mountain

Thomas C. Mountain attended Punahou School for six years some half a dozen years before “Barry O’Bombers” time there. He has been living and writing from Eritrea since 2006. He can be reached at thomascmountain at g_ mail_ dot _com

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