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| | The 20th Remembrance - October 23, 2003 |
 | | BEIRUT, Lebanon - It was America's first encounter with the suicide bomb, initially its embassy, then its Marine barracks, blasted to shreds by a truckload of explosives that killed 241 servicemen and launched a new era in the Middle East. |
 | | The bombing of the BLT headquarters, whose duties included acting as a contingent to the multinational peacekeeping force, was even more shocking to the American public, as it came on the heels of the bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut which occurred in April of the same year. |
 | | A terrorist car bomb almost took out the MAU commander Oct. 19, when he was returning from the embassy along that single remaining route. |
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