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The War Iran Chose: Remembering the Beirut Bombing – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The War Iran Chose: Remembering the Beirut Bombing – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

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…

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