by Samuel Francis

About the author: Samuel Francis is a syndicated columnist.

Editor’s Note: In the following viewpoint, Samuel Francis suggests that the crash of TWA flight 800 could have been the result of a terrorist attack. At press time, investigators had not confirmed that the aircraft was bombed.

Was the 1996 destruction of TWA Flight 800 and the death of its 229 passengers an act of sabotage and mass murder? No one yet knows, but so far most experts seem to think sabotage is not unlikely. What hardly anyone is willing to think—or at least say—is that the country’s uncontrolled immigration crisis makes such acts of terror far easier than most Americans realize.

Operation Dustmop

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