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  April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing was the April 18, 1983, suicide bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
The bomb was detonated in a delivery van driven by a suicide bomber, carrying about 400 pounds (181 kg) of explosives.
The van, believed stolen from the embassy a year before, gained access to the embassy compound and parked under the portico at the very front of the building, where it exploded.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/April_1983_U.S._Embassy_bombing   (389 words)

  
 1983 Beirut barracks bombing - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Most (notably the U.S. government) believe the Hezbollah militant group, backed by Iran and Syria, was responsible for the two barracks bombings, as well as the April 1983 US Embassy bombing.
Along with the April 1983 US Embassy bombing, this incident prompted the Inman Report, a review of the security of US facilities overseas for the US Department of State.
In May of 2003, US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth declared that the Islamic Republic of Iran was responsible for the 1983 attack, on the grounds that Iran had originally founded Hezbollah and financed the group throughout the years.
www.voyager.in /1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing   (830 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
The US took possession of the island in 1857, and its guano deposits were mined by US and British companies during the second half of the 19th century.
Guam was ceded to the US by Spain in 1898.
Discovered by the US early in the 19th century, the island was officially claimed by the US in 1857.
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 America's War Against Terrorism, 9/11
Decision by Justice Nancy Edmunds, Eastern District of Michigan, on April 3, 2002
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