Saturday, February 20, 2010

I Always Liked Alexander Haig

A little thing on his Vietnam experience here.

He was from what I read a pretty devout Catholic too.

From His Wilki page I learn something I did not know. The REDS tried to kill him

NATO Supreme Commander (1974–1979)

Gen. Haig as SACEUR, photo taken on June 1, 1977
Haig served as the
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and commander-in-chief of United States European Command (CinCUSEUR), the Commander of NATO forces in Europe, from 1974 to 1979. A creature of habit, Haig took the same route to SHAPE every day and this pattern of behavior did not go unnoticed by terrorist groups. On June 25, 1979, Haig was the victim of an assassination attempt in Mons, Belgium. A land mine blew up under the bridge on which Haig's car was traveling, narrowly missing Haig's car but wounding three of his bodyguards in a following car.[15] Authorities later attributed responsibility for the attack to the Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1993 a German Court sentenced Rolf Clemens Wagner, a former RAF member, to life imprisonment for the assassination attempt.[15]

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