30 years ago today: Beirut barracks bombing « Hot Air: "The suicide bombing on the Beirut airport barracks for American peacekeepers in Lebanon killed 241 US servicemen — 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers. The last time that many Marines died at once was during the assault on Iwo Jima, and the overall single-day casualty toll was the highest for the Pentagon since the first day of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. The French lost another 58 soldiers in a separate attack on their peacekeepers, with both attacks conducted by a little-known group at the time called Hezbollah — a proxy terrorist network of Iran, which hoped to seize control of Lebanon through Syria."
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