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6 June 1982 – Israel undertakes military action in Southern Lebanon: Operation "Peace for Galilee." 23 August 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected to be Lebanon's president. 25 August 1982 – A MNF of approximately 400 French, 800 Italian soldiers and 800 marines of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) are deployed in Beirut as part of a peacekeeping force to oversee the evacuation of ...
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. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one U.S. Marine Security Guard.
On Sunday morning at 06:22, October 23, 1983, Battalion Landing Team 1/8, the ground combat element of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, was the main victim of what came to be known as the Beirut barracks bombing when a truck loaded with 12,000 pounds of explosives crashed through the gates of the BLT headquarters at the airport in Beirut ...
Beirut bombings may refer to the following bombings that have occurred in Beirut: 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut; 1982 Beirut bombing; 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut; 1983 Beirut barracks bombing; 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut; 1985 Beirut car bombings; October 2012 Beirut bombing; July 2013 Beirut bombing
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Early in the morning of 23 October, a suicide truck bomb struck the U.S. Marines' Battalion Landing Team 1/8 (BLT, part of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit or MAU) building at Beirut international airport, killing 245 American servicemen and wounding another 130 marines and U.S. Navy personnel, [81] [26] followed a few minutes later by the ...
This is the moment a Beirut building block collapsed after Israel dropped a suspected 2,000lb bomb. Eyewitness footage captured the building in the Ghobeiry area in southern Beirut collapsing ...
Mark Kelly, chair of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee, said Israel used a 2,000-lb (900-kg) Mark 84 series bomb, during an interview with NBC. "We see more use of guided munitions ...