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- The Hezbollah is believed to be responsible for the attack, with the support of the Iranian government.
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On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians, and two attackers.
On April 18, 1983, the illusion of calm was broken when a car bomb destroyed the U.S. embassy in West Beirut, killing dozens of American foreign service workers and Lebanese civilians.
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The Beirut Memorial On Line is a site dedicated to the U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors that lost their lives as a result of the terrorist bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon on October 23, 1983.
- The bomb was the largest non-nuclear explosion since World War II. A truck filled with 12,000 pounds of TNT drove up to the American compound, crashed through the gates and into the Battalion Landing Team Headquarters building, where it exploded.
- It was the single deadliest day for the U.S. military since the Tet Offensive. On the first day of the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, 246 American troops were killed in the surprise attack.
- There were actually two suicide bombing attacks. At almost the same time as the first truck was driving into the Marines' BLT headquarters, a second truck drove into the French Multinational Force Headquarters building.
- No one knows for certain who was responsible. The official U.S. government report on the incident concludes the bombing "was a terrorist act sponsored by sovereign states or organized political entities for the purposes of defeating U.S. objectives in Lebanon."
Feb 9, 2010 · Other Marines fell prey to snipers. On April 18, 1983, a suicide bomber driving a van devastated the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans.
On April 18, 1983, a suicide bomber detonated a one-half-ton pickup truck laden with 2,000 pounds of TNT near the front of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans.
Jun 13, 2013 · On October 23, 1983, 241 US service personnel – including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel – are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon.
