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Title: Today in History: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings
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Chicago Tribune
URL Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024 ... 1983-beirut-barracks-bombings/
Published: Oct 23, 2024
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2024-10-23 05:43:17 by Esso
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Comments: 7
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 23, the 297th day of 2024. There are 69 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at the U.S. Marine Corps barracks at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon, while a near-simultaneous attack on French barracks in Beirut killed 58 paratroopers. Also on this date: In 1915, an estimated 25,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City in support of women’s suffrage. In 1942, during World War II, Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt, resulting in an Allied victory. In 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began; the largest naval battle of World War II resulted in a major Allied victory against Japanese forces. In 1956, a student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule began; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, putting down the uprising within weeks. In 1987, the U.S. Senate rejected the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork 58-42. In 1989, 23 people were killed in an explosion at a Phillips Petroleum chemical complex in Pasadena, Texas. In 1993, the Toronto Blue Jays won their second consecutive World Series as Joe Carter hit a walk-off, three-run home run in Game 6 to win the series over the Philadelphia Phillies. In 1995, a jury in Houston convicted Yolanda Saldivar of murdering Tejano singing star Selena. In 2001, Apple released the iPod. An estimated 450 million iPod devices were sold before the line was discontinued in 2022. Today’s Birthdays: Film director Philip Kaufman is 88. Advocate and humanitarian Graça Machel is 79. Film director Ang Lee is 70. Jazz singer Dianne Reeves is 68. Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 68. Activist and philanthropist Martin Luther King III is 67. Author and commentator Michael Eric Dyson is 66. Film director Sam Raimi is 65. Comedic musician “Weird Al” Yankovic is 65. Rock musician Robert Trujillo (Metallica) is 60. Racing driver and paracyclist Alex Zanardi is 58. CNN medical reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta is 55. TV personality Cat Deeley is 48. Actor Ryan Reynolds is 48. TV personality Meghan McCain is 40. R&B singer Miguel is 39. Actor Emilia Clarke is 38. Actor Margaret Qualley is 30. Actor Amandla Stenberg is 26. Poster Comment: 
British soldiers give a hand in rescue operations at the site of the bomb-wrecked U.S. Marine barracks near Beirut airport Sunday, Oct. 23, 1983.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos will speak Wednesday Oct. 23, 2013 at a memorial bordering Camp Lejeune that honors the
deadliest terrorist attack on Americans prior to Sept. 11, 2001. Many of the 241 Americans killed on Oct. 23, 1983, were members of Camp
Lejeune’s 24th Marine Amphibious Unit. (AP Photo/Bill Foley/File)
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#2. To: Esso (#0)
Yet another Israeli false flag attack!!
Yes, it was very recently declassified that Israel did, in fact, build the sophisticated compressed gas-accelerated bomb that was used to blow up the Marine BLT building. It was the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever detonated until the early 2000s. A bunch of illiterate, ragtag 5th century towelheads didn't have the capability to design and build such a device in the days before the internet. It was not reported on any MSM news source.
I recall the U.S. dropped a MOAB on them in Afghanistan. ;)
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#3. To: Pigpen, 4um (#2)
Yet another Israeli false flag attack!!
#7. To: Esso (#3)
It was the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever detonated until the early 2000s.
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