1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut
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1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut
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The April 18, 1983, United States Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing on the Embassy of the United States in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one U.S. Marine Security Guard. The attack came in the wake of an intervention in the Lebanese Civil War by the United States and other Western countries. While initially claimed by the Islamic Jihad Orga
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1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_US_embassy_bombing_in_Beirut
date created:
2004-01-03T15:47:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T17:04:50Z
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