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On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians, and two attackers.
1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut. / 33.90139°N 35.48500°E / 33.90139; 35.48500. The April 18, 1983, United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers ...
Eyewitness accounts differ about the time it took for law enforcement to respond, as times differ between 10 and 15 minutes [11] even though a police station is across the street, within 300 metres (980 ft) of the college. [5] The massacre ended when the gunman committed suicide in the college's library.
Camp Chapman attack. The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman on December 30, 2009. [ 1] One of the main tasks of the CIA personnel stationed at the base was to provide intelligence supporting drone attacks in Pakistan ...
1984 US embassy bombing in Beirut. On September 20, 1984, the Shi'a Islamic militant group Hezbollah, with support and direction from the Islamic Republic of Iran, carried out a suicide car bombing targeting the U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 23 people and 1 attacker.
Caught. October 30, 2014. Number. 503. Captured. Eric Matthew Frein (born May 3, 1983) is an American domestic terrorist [ 2] and murderer, convicted and sentenced to death for the 2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack [ 3] in which he shot and killed one State Trooper, and seriously injured another.
A friend and classmate of 20-year-old Erin Edwards, who died last week in an apparent double murder-suicide, has spoken out on the victim's relationship with her mother, the primary suspect in her ...
20 February – Clive Barracks bombing: The Clive Barracks were bombed by the IRA. Only 2 people were injured in the attack but a fair amount of structural damage was done. 22 September – Deal barracks bombing: Eleven Royal Marines bandsmen were killed by the IRA at Deal Barracks in Kent, England. [32]