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Friday, April 18, 2014

History in Pictures- The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up on 18 April 1983 by a suicide car-bomber. 63 people were killed including 17 Americans.

Beirut 18 april 1983 USA embassyThe April 18, 1983 United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 63 people, mostly embassy and CIA staff members, several soldiers and one Marine. 17 of the dead were Americans. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is thought of as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.
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