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Sep 1, 2009 · Leatherneck Published On: 2010-01-13 "Geraghty's book is an eye-opener for anyone who wants to learn more about what happened in 1983 before and after the awful destruction of the Marine barracks in Beirut."— Military Heritage Published On: 2010-01-25
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.
- October 23, 1983; 39 years ago, 06:22 am
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1983 Beirut barracks bombings, terrorist bombing attacks against U.S. and French armed forces in Beirut on October 23, 1983 that claimed 299 lives. The attacks, which took place amid the sectarian conflict of the extremely damaging Lebanese civil war (1975–90), hastened the removal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon in February 1984.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 25, 2008 · The events that Sunday morning in Beirut exposed a deep-seated fanaticism fanned by Islamic jihadists without sectarian divisions. Recent history has made us more familiar with this phenomenon. The 18 April bombing of the U.S. embassy and the Marine barracks' bombings in Beirut are considered to be seminal events in the war against terrorism.
Oct 24, 2009 · The two attacks on the U.S. Marine barracks and the French military followed the April 8, 1983, attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, which murdered 63 people, which included 32 Lebanese employees ...
That Fateful Day. At approximately 1pm local time on April 18, 1983, a suicide bomber crashed a truck into the front of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and detonated 2,000 pounds of explosives. The massive blast killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, eight of whom were CIA officers, and wounded more than 100 others.
