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William Francis Buckley (May 30, 1928 – June 3, 1985) was a United States Army officer in the United States Army Special Forces, and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in Beirut from 1984 [1] until his kidnapping and execution in 1985.
He was killed on 18 April 1983 when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the US Embassy in Beirut. A total of 63 people were killed in the explosion including his wife Monique, Robert Ames, Kenneth E. Haas (the CIA Lebanon station chief) and thirteen other Americans. [5] [6] He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with his wife Monique.
Chapman was killed while fighting alongside the CIA in 2002. [62] FOB Chapman is located near Forward Operating Base Salerno, a military base used by U.S. special operations forces. [12] The CIA's base at Camp Chapman was set up at the beginning of the U.S.-led offensive against al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban in 2001.
At least 12 people were killed, including an 11-year old boy and an 8-year old girl, and more than 2,700 injured in the coordinated blasts, the country’s health minister said Wednesday.
Ames was killed on April 18, 1983, when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the United States embassy in Beirut.A total of 63 people were killed in the explosion, including Ames, the CIA Lebanon station chief and his deputy, as well as six other CIA officers and eight other Americans.
Lebanese civil defense members spray water on the street on Jan. 3, 2024, at the building that was hit the day before by a strike that killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri in Beirut. (Anwar ...
Tim Weiner has claimed that during the Lebanese civil war that Christian leader Bashir Gemayel was on the CIA payroll and was a trusted source. [20] The 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut killed several 8 CIA agents and in 2023 the CIA called it the "deadliest day in CIA history". [21] The role of the CIA in the 1985 Beirut car bombings has been ...
Between the banks of the Providence River and Dyer Street, a memorial honors the nine men who died on Oct. 23, 1983, when a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed.. Dedicated in 2020, the ...