The War Iran Chose: Remembering the Beirut Bombing
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On Oct. 23, 1983, shortly after 6:00 a.m. local time, a hijacked Mercedes stake-bed truck carrying approximately 6 tons of TNT-equivalent explosives smashed through a series of inadequate barriers and sentry posts and detonated at the building near the Beirut airport serving as the main barracks for peacekeepers from the first battalion of the 8th Marine Regiment. The four-story building collapsed on its occupants. Two hundred and forty-one American servicemen died: 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and
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