How come RAYGUN could kill 200+ Marines and FERGIT?????1 n/t

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1983 Beirut barracks bombing
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1983 Beirut barracks bombing

A smoke cloud rises from the rubble of the bombed barracks at Beirut International Airport.
Location 33°49′45″N 35°29′41″E / 33.82917, 35.49472 (USMC Barracks at Beirut Airport)Coordinates: 33°49′45″N 35°29′41″E / 33.82917, 35.49472 (USMC Barracks at Beirut Airport)
USMC barracks, Beirut Airport
33°52′10″N 35°29′17″E / 33.86944, 35.48806 (Drakkar Barracks)
'Drakkar' barracks of French 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes, Ramlet al Baida, Beirut

Date 23 October 1983
6:20 am
Attack type Suicide truck bombs
Deaths 241 American servicemen, 58 French servicemen, 6 civilians, 2 suicide bombers
Injured 75
Perpetrator(s) Unknown

The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was a major incident on October 23, 1983, during the Lebanese Civil War. Two truck bombs struck separate buildings in Beirut housing U.S. and French members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon, killing hundreds of servicemen, the majority being U.S. Marines. The blasts led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed since the Israeli 1982 invasion of Lebanon. "Islamic Jihad" took responsibility for the bombing, but that organization is thought to have been a nom de guerre for Hezbollah receiving help from the Islamic Republic of Iran.<1>


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[UTUSN]

1. An old McCAIN is in our future!1 n/t

[madeline_con]

2. I guess a Chimp-like response would have been better? n/t

[Trajan]

3. As much as I despised Reagan, both the president and the image ...

He didnt actually kill those Marines .....

The policy was poorly developed, the implementation was full of holes and the result was disastrous ...

We can say he did 'cut and run', though ..... He got out of Lebanon as fast as possible ....

Unfortunately: Those Marines left in pine boxes .....

[UTUSN]

5. Yes, he DID!1 n/t1

[texastoast]

4. Alzheimer's?

He was old already then.