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U.S. Marine barracks bombing, Beirut
Definition
- On October 23, 1983, 241 American and 58 French service personnel were killed, and many more wounded, in two suicide bombings that destroyed the U.S. Marine barracks and a French paratroop barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack is widely thought to have hastened the end of American military involvement in Lebanon. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; U.S. Marine Barracks Bombing, Beirut]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/U.S._Marine_barracks_bombing,_Beirut
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