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EspañolAPRIL 1983 UNITED STATES EMBASSY BOMBING
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The 'April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing' was the April 18, 1983, suicide bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.
The bomb was detonated in a delivery van driven by a suicide bomber, carrying about 2000 pounds of explosives. The van, believed stolen from the embassy a year before, gained access to the embassy compound and parked under the portico at the very front of the building, where it exploded. The blast collapsed the front section of the embassy and killed 63 people. Seventeen of these were Americans, and eight of them worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, including the CIA's Near East director Robert Ames. Another one of the Americans was a United States Marine Security Guard, Corporal Robert V. McMaugh. More than a hundred others were wounded.
The attack was motivated by the American intervention in the Lebanese Civil War. In the aftermath of the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps by Lebanese Christian militiamen, American troops had landed to try and restore order and central government authority to the war ravaged country.
Following the attack, the embassy was moved to a supposedly more secure location in East Beirut. However, on September 20, 1984, another car bomb exploded at this embassy annex, killing 20 Lebanese and two American soldiers.
Along with the Marine Barracks Bombing, the incident prompted the Inman Report, a review of overseas security for the U.S. Department of State. This in turn prompted the creation of the Diplomatic Security Service from the old office of 'SY' in the U.S. State Department.
A U.S. District court judge ruled in 2003 that the attack was by what had been at the time been a new organization called Hezbollah supported by the state of Iran.[1] In his book "See No Evil", Robert Baer, an ex-CIA officer who worked in Lebanon, claims that the bombing was carried out by Mohamed Hassuna and directed by a Fatah cell under the aegis of the Iranian Pasdaran.[2]
★ 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
★ Suicide attack
★ Janet Lee Stevens
★ Lebanese civil war 1983 Full of Pictures and Information
★ BeirutVeterans.info - Information for and about the Beirut Veteran
★ Beirut Memorial: The US Embassy Bombing
1. Anne Dammarell et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran
2. See No Evil
The 'April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing' was the April 18, 1983, suicide bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.
The bomb was detonated in a delivery van driven by a suicide bomber, carrying about 2000 pounds of explosives. The van, believed stolen from the embassy a year before, gained access to the embassy compound and parked under the portico at the very front of the building, where it exploded. The blast collapsed the front section of the embassy and killed 63 people. Seventeen of these were Americans, and eight of them worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, including the CIA's Near East director Robert Ames. Another one of the Americans was a United States Marine Security Guard, Corporal Robert V. McMaugh. More than a hundred others were wounded.
The attack was motivated by the American intervention in the Lebanese Civil War. In the aftermath of the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps by Lebanese Christian militiamen, American troops had landed to try and restore order and central government authority to the war ravaged country.
Following the attack, the embassy was moved to a supposedly more secure location in East Beirut. However, on September 20, 1984, another car bomb exploded at this embassy annex, killing 20 Lebanese and two American soldiers.
Along with the Marine Barracks Bombing, the incident prompted the Inman Report, a review of overseas security for the U.S. Department of State. This in turn prompted the creation of the Diplomatic Security Service from the old office of 'SY' in the U.S. State Department.
A U.S. District court judge ruled in 2003 that the attack was by what had been at the time been a new organization called Hezbollah supported by the state of Iran.[1] In his book "See No Evil", Robert Baer, an ex-CIA officer who worked in Lebanon, claims that the bombing was carried out by Mohamed Hassuna and directed by a Fatah cell under the aegis of the Iranian Pasdaran.[2]
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| See also |
| External links |
| References |
See also
★ 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
★ Suicide attack
★ Janet Lee Stevens
External links
★ Lebanese civil war 1983 Full of Pictures and Information
★ BeirutVeterans.info - Information for and about the Beirut Veteran
★ Beirut Memorial: The US Embassy Bombing
References
1. Anne Dammarell et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran
2. See No Evil
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