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Beirut, also known as The Negotiator in the United Kingdom, [2] is a 2018 American political thriller film [3] directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy.. Set in 1982 during the Lebanese Civil War, the film stars Jon Hamm as Mason Skiles, a former U.S. diplomat who returns to service in Beirut in order to save a colleague from the group responsible for the death of Skiles' wife.
The PLO moved its primary base of operations to Beirut in the early 1970s, after Black September in Jordan.The presence of Palestinian forces was one of the main reasons that led to a conflict in Lebanon in 1975–1976 which ended with the occupation of Lebanon by peacekeeping forces (the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon). [2]
Thomas Sutherland, former Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad members near his Beirut home on June 9, 1985. [24] He was released on November 18, 1991, at the same time as Terry Waite , [ 25 ] having been held hostage for 2,353 days.
Beirut doesn't really work because the plot takes so many twists that it's all too easy to get lost, TIME's film critic writes.
The Sabra and Shatila [a] massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias—in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.
The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, [22] [23] [24] began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon.The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the Israeli military, which had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border.
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.
There’s something distinctly joyful about 1980s' pop culture. Popular films like "The Terminator," "Ghostbusters" and "Dirty Dancing" had a gigantic cultural impact that can still be noticed today.