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  1985 Beirut Car Bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bomb went off outside a block of flats and close to a mosque as worshippers were gathering for Friday night prayers in a densely populated Shia Muslim suburb.
The bomb blew a huge crater in the street and destroyed two seven-storey blocks of flats, a mosque, and a cinema.
The bomb went off near the home of a leading fundamentalist Shi'a Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah and it is thought he may have been the target - although he was not hurt in the attack.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1985_Beirut_Car_Bombing   (350 words)

  
 STOP TERRORISM, the most large list of Islamic terrorists attacks
Car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, kills eighty and wounds more than two hundred civilians, in what is believed to have been a American CIA backed attempt to kill the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist group.
A car bomb in Algiers kills 45 and wounds 60, hours after another 36 people were killed by Algerian rebels south of the capital.
A car bomb explodes outside the central Jerusalem police station in an area packed with bars and restaurants, although no-one is injured.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 60 killed by Beirut car bomb
The blast was the worst such explosion in Beirut since the truck bombing of American and French peacekeeping headquarters here in October, 1983, which killed 241 US servicemen and 55 French soldiers.
The blast brought pandemonium to the streets of West Beirut, as fleets of ambulances rushed to hospitals, truckloads of gunmen fired wildly into the air, and passers-by fled for cover.
Beirut 's crowded southern suburbs are inhabited mainly by poor Shi'ite Muslim families, many of them refugees from the south.
www.guardian.co.uk /fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1432945,00.html   (583 words)

  
 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.
www.beirut-documentary.org /20th_remembrance.html   (17853 words)

  
 Car bomb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there.
This kind of bomb is a favorite instrument of terrorists, guerrillas and assassins because the car bomb acts as its own delivery mechanism and can carry a relatively large amount of explosive without attracting suspicion.
Defending against a car bomb involves keeping cars at distance from buildings, often using Jersey barriers or similar devices, and hardening buildings to withstand an explosion.
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 Zionists Nuke Downtown Beirut - Again!
In a single word, Beirut was drawn in on Zionist plans as "headquarters" for the Jewish criminal elite, who had absolutely no intention of getting their manicured hands dirty in the eastern desert oilfields.
He noted the crater was near the middle of the road, indicating the bomb was likely placed under the street and not in a parked car.
Suspicion that the bomb was under the street increased Friday when the chief military investigator demanded that police investigate recent road works in the area.
www.vialls.com /beirut/micronuke.html   (2807 words)

  
 March 8 - Simple English Wikipedia
1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1985 - 1985 Beirut Car Bombing is made in front of the mosque killing 45 people and injuring 175.
1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/March_8   (875 words)

  
 frontline: target america: terrorist attacks on americans, 1979-1988
The American embassy in Kuwait was bombed in a series of attacks whose targets also included the French embassy, the control tower at the airport, the country's main oil refinery, and a residential area for employees of the American corporation Raytheon.
Bombing of U.S. Embassy annex northeast of Beirut
In Aukar, northeast of Beirut, a truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy annex killing 24 people, two of whom were U.S. military personnel.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html   (2670 words)

  
 William J. Casey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The congressional inquires as well as the majority of investigative reports found the charges to be without merit.
One of the CIA-funded attacks that killed a great number of innocent civilians took place on March 8, 1985, when the U.S. tried to liquidate Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Casey contracted out the job to Turki bin Faisal al Saud of Saudi intelligence, Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah, which sent a car packed with explosives into a Beirut slum near Fadlallah's headquarters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_J._Casey   (701 words)

  
 Timeline 1985
1985 Aug 25, Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine.
1985 Dr. Richard F. Marsh (d.1997 at 58) observed that the disease mink spongiform encephalopathy was very similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), and that food supplement made from cattle and fed to the minks was probably the route of disease transmission.
1985 In Nicaragua the 3,000 acre cotton ranch of Enrique Bolanos was expropriated by the Sandinistas.
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 1985   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents.
August 6 - In Hiroshima tens of thousands mark the 40th of the atomic bombing of the city.
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 Goss's Beirut Bombing Tops Casey, Puts CIA Back On The Strategic Map
The 1985 Beirut bombing was part of an operation, organized by CIA director William Casey and approved by President Ronald Reagan, to assassinate Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a prominent anti-American Lebanese cleric.
WASHINGTON -- The 1985 Beirut bombing was part of an operation, organized by CIA director William Casey and approved by President Ronald Reagan, to assassinate Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a prominent anti-American Lebanese cleric.
Damascus justifies its continued military presence in Lebanon by citing Beirut's requests and the failure of the Lebanese Government to implement all of the constitutional reforms in the Ta'if Accord since the Lebanese Civil War.
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 frontline: target america: interviews: bob woodward
And finally Casey in 1985 worked out with the Saudis a plan to use a car bomb to kill Sheik [Mohammed Hussein] Fadlallah who they determined was one of the people behind, not only the Marine barracks [bombing], but was involved in the taking of American hostages in Beirut.
It was Casey on his own, saying, "I'm going to solve the big problem by essentially getting tougher or as tough as the terrorists in using their weapon"--the car bomb.
And when you lay it out, it's clear that they promoted this bombing, knew it was going to occur, and then got a thumbs up report back right after the discothèque had been bombed.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/interviews/woodward.html   (4348 words)

  
 Robert Fisk Article 9
The Americans are bombing Afghanistan with a few British missiles thrown in.
I even seem to recall a massive terrorist car bomb that exploded in Beirut in 1985 – targeting Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the spiritual inspiration to the Hezbollah, who now appears to be back on Washington's hit list – and which missed Nasrallah but slaughtered 85 innocent Lebanese civilians.
The Beirut daily As-Safir ran a widely-praised editorial asking why an Arab who wanted to express the anger and humiliation of millions of other Arabs was forced to do so from a cave in a non-Arab country.
www.robert-fisk.com /articles9.htm   (1081 words)

  
 Jihad Watch: Beirut Car Bomb Kills Ex-PM Hariri
Feb 14, 2005 — BEIRUT (Reuters) - A massive car bomb killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri on Beirut's waterfront Tuesday, witnesses and security sources said.
It appeared to be the biggest bomb in the city since the Lebanese civil war ended in 1990.
Rafik Al-Hariri was born in Sidon, Lebanon in 1944.
www.jihadwatch.org /archives/005039.php   (1031 words)

  
 Terrorist Attacks
Minutes later a second bomb killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut.
Bombing at restaurant frequented by U.S. soldiers, killed 18 Spaniards and injured 82.
A bomb exploded aboard TWA flight 840 en route from Rome to Athens, killing 4 Americans and injuring 9.
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 1985   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
'''1985''' '''(MCMLXXXV)''' is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
August 6 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
November 15 - In separate events, mail bombs kill two people in Salt Lake City, Utah; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring Mark Hoffman.
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 Murrah Bombing**1998**
Mae Brussel, former editor of Ramparts Magazine has produced a vast library of information (which was covertly obtained and removed from public access shortly after she was covertly murdered), and in it the names and dates of conspirators and separate conspiratorial acts are detailed.
I have listened to hundreds of hours of her radio broadcasts, and like all others who have, we were cognizant of the chain of events that culminated in the bombing of the Murrah Building.
For her talks on various subjects you may contact: Archives on Audio POB 17023 San Francisco, CA 94117 They have a catalogue of tapes, but until you have listened to hundreds of hours as I have, the larger picture is not so clear.
members.tripod.com /~Eoroneth/mur.html   (2895 words)

  
 History of terrorism
It is one of a series of 49 bombings between 1974 and 1977 attributed to the Puerto Rican National Liberation Army.
Four Muslim fundamentalists are convicted of conspiracy and other charges related to the bombing, thought to have been ordered by Saudi terror master Osama bin Laden.
Timothy McVeigh, 33, a member of an anarchist group hostile to the federal government, is convicted of the attack in 1997 and is executed in June 2001.
www.simplytaty.com /broadenpages/terrorism.htm   (312 words)

  
 CHS Class of 1985
Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut; he was released in December 1991.
I was sitting in Iraq last year when a soldier asked me when I graduated from high school (he had not yet been born in 1985) and I realized that we must be close to a 20-year reunion.
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 cars - 1985
1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
July 20 - The main ship wreck site of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha (which sank in 1622) is found 40 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida by treasure hunters who soon begin to raise $400 million in coins and silver.
August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747SR-46 plane en route from Tokyo to Osaka, crashed northwest of Tokyo, killing 520 of the 524 people on board.
www.carluvers.com /cars/1985   (2231 words)

  
 Worst terrorist strikes--U.S. and worldwide
bombing and riot at Haymarket Square rally in Chicago, Illinois
bombing of Bolgard palace in Bessarabia (modern Moldova)
bombings of three subway trains and one bus in London, UK 14 Sep 2005
www.johnstonsarchive.net /terrorism/wrjp255i.html   (811 words)

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