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  1983 Beirut barracks bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1983 barracks bombing was a major incident during the Lebanese Civil War.
In addition, one Lebanese died in the Marine barracks attack and two Lebanese died in the French barracks bombing.
The Marines were moved offshore where they could not be targeted, and in February 1984 the International Peacekeeping Force withdrew from Lebanon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marine_barracks_bombing   (751 words)

  
 1989 Deal barracks bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Provisional Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it was a continuation of their campaign to rid Northern Ireland of all British troops (who had been deployed in the region for nearly twenty years).
The Deal bombing was not the first nor the last to occur in the UK against military outposts.
In August 1988, a barracks in north London was bombed, and in April 1990, the headquarters of the Parachute Regiment in Shropshire was destroyed by three explosions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1989_Deal_barracks_bombing   (345 words)

  
 1983 Beirut barracks bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1983 barracks bombing was a major terrorist incident during the Lebanese Civil War.
The death toll was 241American Servicemen for the Marine Barracks attack: 220 Marines, 18 Navy Personnel, and 3 Army soldiers.
The Marines were later moved offshore where they could not be targeted, but in February 1984 the International Peacekeeping Force withdrew from Lebanon.
kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Marine_barracks_bombing   (721 words)

  
 Marine barracks bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Marine barracks bombing was a major terrorist incident in the 1980s.
The death toll was 241 for the Marine Barracks attack: 220 Marines, 18 Navy Personnel, and 3 Army soldiers.
Except for a few shellings from the USS New Jersey off Lebanon, there was no real military response from the United States due to the barracks bombing; however, the US did become invovled in several fights in Lebanon during their stay.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/marine_barracks_bombing   (710 words)

  
 beirut bombing - us embassy - marine barracks - terrorist attacks
Bombing of marine barracks, Beirut, October 23, 1983: Simultaneous suicide truck-bomb attacks were made on American and French compounds in Beirut, Lebanon.
A 12,000-pound bomb destroyed the U.S. compound, killing 242 Americans, while 58 French troops were killed when a 400-pound device destroyed a French base.
They were members of the same group responsible for the barbarous bombing of our embassy in Beirut the previous April, a group whose religious leaders promised instant entry to Paradise for killing an enemy of Iran's theocracy.
www.terrorism-victims.org /terrorists/beirut-marine-barracks.html   (725 words)

  
 CNN.com - Iran responsible for 1983 Marine barracks bombing, judge rules - May. 30, 2003
Marines search through the rubble for their missing comrades after the 1983 barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon.
Iran is responsible for the 1983 suicide bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 241 American servicemen, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday.
A key point in determining the plaintiffs' eligibility to recover damages was the issue of whether the Marines were engaged in combat in their mission to Lebanon.
www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/05/30/iran.barracks.bombing/index.html   (728 words)

  
 Beirut Memorial On Line - History | Powell's Reaction
Colin Powell's reaction to the Beirut Marine Barracks bombing...
Our Marines had been stationed in Lebanon for the fuzzy idea of providing a "presence." The year before, in June 1982, the Israelis had invaded Lebanon in one final push to drive out PLO terrorists.
The Marines had been deployed around the Beirut airport as what State Department euphemists called an "interpositional force." Translation: The Marines were to remain between two powder kegs, the Lebanese army and Syrian-backed Shiite units fighting it out in the Shouf Mountains.
www.beirut-memorial.org /history/powell.html   (1116 words)

  
 Marine barracks bombing haunts U.S. 20 years later - 10/22/03
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.
In May of this year, a federal judge in Washington blamed Iran for the 1983 barracks bombing and said Tehran would have to pay damages to survivors and relatives.
The Marines came as peacekeepers to a country reeling from an Israeli invasion and occupation, and the massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla perpetrated by Israel's Christian Lebanese allies.
www.detnews.com /2003/nation/0310/23/a04-304548.htm   (1046 words)

  
 frontline: target america: terrorist attacks on americans, 1979-1988
They were part of a contingent of 1,800 Marines that had been sent to Lebanon as part of a multinational force to help separate the warring Lebanese factions.
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.
Yasir Shraydi, a Palestinian who was said to have assembled the bomb, was sentenced to 14 years, while Musbah Eter, a Libyan diplomat, and Verena Chanaa's former husband, Palestinian Ali Chanaa, were sentenced to 12 years apiece.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html   (2670 words)

  
 International Business Commercial Law Attorneys Perles Law Firm Washington District Of Columbia D.C. DC Lawyers ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The support columns of the Marine barracks, which were made of reinforced concrete, were stretched, as an expert witness described, "like rubber bands." The explosion created a crater in the earth over eight feet deep.
The four-story Marine barracks was reduced to fifteen feet of rubble.
So of course he had a major involvement in [the Marine barracks bombing] since those were the people who did it." Dr. Ledeen also testified that "there was information of every imaginable type that enabled [the intelligence community] to reconstruct a picture which showed very clearly the Iranian involvement [in the Marine barracks bombing].
www.perleslaw.com /Articles_2.shtml   (8291 words)

  
 Insight on the News: Invitation to September 11; Failure to retaliate for the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
That legal action was brought by the families of the 241 U.S. Marines who were killed when terrorists crashed an explosives-filled truck into their barracks near the Beirut airport on Oct. 23, 1983.
In a personal tribute to the slain Marines and their families, he had obtained a copy of the NSA transcript and presented it in a sealed envelope to the court.
Marine Col. Tim Geraghty, commander of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit then stationed at the Beirut Airport, tells Insight that he never received a warning or even a report based on the message, although he was well aware that his Marines had become "sitting ducks" to hostile militias on the ground.
articles.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2004_Jan_5/ai_111739572   (1304 words)

  
 Lebanonwire.com | Relatives of 1983 Marine barracks bombing sue Iran
WASHINGTON: The Iranian government was accused Monday of ordering the 1983 terrorist bombing that ripped through a US Marine barracks in Beirut and killed 241 Marines.
The suicide truck bombing was blamed on Hizbullah, which was supported by Iran.
The Marines killed and wounded in the attack were part of a multinational peacekeeping mission.
www.lebanonwire.com /0303/03031911DS.asp   (478 words)

  
 The Nation, 10/27/1984 - Marine Barracks Bombing: The Warnings Reagan Ignored by Sloyan, Patrick J.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Perception by Lebanese that U.S. marines are siding with Christian President Amin Gemayel in his civil war against Druse and Shiite factions; Casualties during a terrorist attack at the marines' airport base in Beirut in October 1984; Implications on U.S. foreign policy and military policy.
...Marine guards with unloaded weapons watched as a yellow truck breezed by them through the entrance of the airport base...
...The 241 dead marines, their parents, wives and children, their sweethearts and the cripples like Gerlach are the ones who lost...
www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v239i0013_08.htm   (2493 words)

  
 Accuracy In Media - Media Monitor - Payback For Iran?
The Reagan response was to withdraw from Lebanon.
Reuven Paz of Israel testified that before the Marine barracks bombing, Israel had intercepted a message from the government of Iran to its Ambassador in Syria, calling for military attacks on the foreign forces in Lebanon, including the Americans.
Sergeant Steve Russell, who was a guard at the embassy on that day, said he had been warned about a possible car bombing of the barracks literally hours before it happened.
www.aim.org /publications/media_monitor/2003/04/21.html   (744 words)

  
 CNN.com - 20 years later, Lebanon bombing haunts - Oct. 23, 2003
CNN's Brent Sadler looks back at the 1983 bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and the impact it had on U.S. foreign policy.
Twenty years ago the United States had its first experience 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.
A U.S. Marine, his leg severly damaged from the explosion, is carried by comrades on that fateful day in 1983.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/10/21/lebanon.anniv.ap   (936 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | terrorism | terror attacks US judge finds Iran liable for bombing
A US federal judge on Friday found Iran liable for the 1983 bombing of a US Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 troops, calling the attack an act "of unspeakable horror" that had left an indelible imprint on the lives of those affected by it.
The suit was brought by family members of the dead Marines as well as those wounded in the October 23, 1983, attack blamed on the radical Islamic group Hezbollah.
The Marines were killed when a 19-tonne explosives-laden truck, disguised as a water delivery vehicle, rammed through protective barricades at the compound entrance and detonated in front of the barracks, demolishing the building.
iafrica.com /news/us_terror/terrorattacks/241210.htm   (659 words)

  
 Terrorist Bombing Of The Marine Barracks, Beirut, Lebanon
On the 21st anniversary of the bombing, the ceremony began with words from the Master of Ceremonies, retired U.S. Navy captain, Capt. William Perry.
The somber ceremony, coming on the 20th anniversary of that horrific truck bombing, took place in an area of the cemetery where 21 of the 241 U.S. service members killed by the blast are buried.
The bombing of the Marine barracks was, as one speaker describe it, a "watershed" moment for this country, bringing home the horrors of terrorism.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /terror.htm   (1359 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Beirut bombing should not be forgotten
My platoon and 1,500 marines had been deployed to Lebanon, along with French Foreign Legionnaires and battalions of British and Italian soldiers, to provide stability in a country ravaged by civil war and a Syrian invasion.
Next to 9/11, the attack on the marine barracks was arguably the most successful terrorist act of all time.
The marines’ sacrifice back in 1983 was in vain because, in the end, we gained nothing.
news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=1176262003   (884 words)

  
 The Nightmare Spreads
Modern suicide bombing was born in the Lebanese Civil War, pioneered by Hezbollah with the support of Iran.
This threatens all civilization because if suicide bombing is allowed to work in Israel, then, like hijacking and airplane bombing, it will be copied and will eventually lead to a bomber strapped with a nuclear device threatening entire nations.
Suicide bombing is taking on a new life that subordinates all immediate political concerns to the one overriding objective of asserting extremist Islam over the face of the globe.
www.peacewithrealism.org /headline/nitemare.htm   (2123 words)

  
 CBS News | Beirut Barracks Attack Remembered | October 23, 2003 16:03:36
The Marines were in Lebanon as part of an international peacekeeping force trying to stabilize the country, which had been torn by a civil war between Christians — with their ally Israel — and Muslims.
Ismalal Ascari, an Iranian, drove the 19-ton truck over the barbed wire fence around the barracks, past two guard posts, and into the center of the compound, according to a federal court order issued earlier this year in a case brought by relatives of the victims.
A crater eight feet deep was carved into the earth, and 15 feet of rubble was all that remained of the four-story Marine barracks.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/10/23/world/main579638.shtml   (588 words)

  
 Marine barracks bombing - Definition up Erdmond.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
President toured the marine bombing site on October_26 and said the US would not be cowered by terrorists.
Except for a few shellings from the USS_New_Jersey off Lebanon, there was no real military response from the United States due to the barracks bombing; however, the US did become invovled in several fights in Lebanon during their stay.
Most believe the Hezbollah terrorist group, backed by Iran and Syria is responsible for the two barracks bombings, as well as the April_1983_US_Embassy_bombing.
www.erdmond.com /Marine_barracks_bombing.html   (568 words)

  
 April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The April 18, 1983, suicide bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon was the deadliest attack on a US displomatic mission to that time, and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-US attacks by Islamic groups.
Many groups within Lebanon were opposed to the American presence but the militant group Hezbollah, under the code name "Islamic Jihad", is believed to have been responsible for the attacks.
Along with the Marine Barracks Bombing, the incident prompted the Inman Report, a review of overseas security for the US Department of State.
www.free-download-soft.com /info/cybermatrix.html   (244 words)

  
 stampage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hendrickson of Jacksonville, N.C., and friends and relatives of 273 Marines who died in a Marine Corps barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, or of injuries resulting from the explosion are trying to honor their loved ones with a commemorative U.S. postage stamp.
John Hendrickson was in a tent 75 meters from the makeshift barracks, located near a runway at the Beirut International Airport, when the driver of a truck loaded with more than 12,000 pounds of explosives rammed into the four-story building.
And unlike the Marines, who were in Beirut on a peacekeeping mission, they knew they were going to war.
usmcdragonfire.homestead.com /stampage.html   (805 words)

  
 HyperWar: US Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984 [Chapter 1]
The Marines had been warned to be alert for suspicious looking vehicles which might, in fact, be terrorist car bombs.
The truck bomb entered at the point where the jeep is shown parked.
For the Marines, this was the highest loss of life in a single day since D Day on Iwo Jima in 1945.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AMH/XX/MidEast/Lebanon-1982-1984/USMC-Lebanon82/USMC-Lebanon82-1.html   (788 words)

  
 News 14 Carolina | 24 Hour Local News | HEADLINES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 24th Marine Amphibious Unit from Camp Lejeune had landed in Beirut in May 1983.
Within weeks, some Marines said they had seen and heard so many clashes they could pick out factions and weapons just by the sound and color of the flashes.
At dawn that October morning, Sergeant Steve Russell supervised guards at the main entrance to the Beirut barracks as most Marines slept.
rdu.news14.com /content/headlines?ArID=37525&SecID=2   (425 words)

  
 CNN.com - Wright: Barracks blast 'ripped through all of Beirut' - Oct. 23, 2003
Twenty years ago Thursday, the United States was stunned by a suicide bomb attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.
Journalist Robin Wright was in Beirut on October 23, 1983, when the barracks were bombed.
He protested because the Americans had been deployed as peacekeepers, not to get engaged in what was then a raging civil war in Lebanon between Christians and Muslims, who were vying for a different division of power inside Lebanon.
edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/10/23/cnna.wright   (967 words)

  
 Before They Sleep - Fact, Terrorism
The Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for reducing the barracks to a pile of rubble.
January 23, 1985 - A bomb explodes in the forward lavatory of a Bolivian 727.
March 9, 1985 - A bomb explodes in the baggage compartment of a Royal Jordanian L-1011.
www.beforetheysleep.com /fact_terrorism.htm   (551 words)

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