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Multinational Force in Lebanon [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
U.S. officials emphasized that there would be no change in the nation’s military role in Lebanon, and said there was "circumstantial evidence" that terrorists aligned with Iran may have been responsible for the truck bomb.
"There are no words that can express our sorrow and grief over the loss of those splendid young men and the injury to so many others," he said. "There are no words to properly express our outrage and, I think, the outrage of all Americans at the despicable act."
Plans were devised to bomb the Hezbollah training camp in Baalbek, Lebanon, where intelligence agents thought the attack had been planned. But Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger aborted the mission because he did not want to strain relations with oil-producing Arab nations.
"'There is much that points to the direction of Iran,' Weinberger declared [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], referring to pro-Iranian terrorists based behind Syrian lines in Lebanon, who were also suspected in
Eyewitnesses said the force of the blast caused the building to float above the ground momentarily before it collapsed in pulverized concrete and human remains. It was the deadliest attack on Americans overseas since World War II and the most powerful car bomb ever detonated, according to the FBI.
On this day in history, October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a yellow Mercedes truck filled with 2,500 pounds of explosives through a barbed-wire fence and past two guard stations into the four-story U.S. Marine Corps barracks at the Beirut airport and erupted into a fireball, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three Army soldiers.
During a day of emergency strategy meetings, he denounced the unidentified forces behind the attack and said the U.S. "must be more determined than ever that they cannot take over that vital and strategic area of the earth, or [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for that matter, any other part of the earth.”
The U.S. and French troops were part of the Multinational Force trying to broker a truce between the opposing Christian and Muslim factions in the Lebanese civil war. In 1981, U.S. troops supervised the withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization from forces returned in 1982, after Israel's Lebanese allies killed almost 1,000 unarmed Palestinian civilian refugees. Some 1,800 Marine peacekeepers moved into an old Israeli army barracks near the airport.
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Reagan Expresses Outrage
President Ronald Reagan voiced outrage over the "vicious, cowardly and ruthless" attack, and asserted the United States would remain in Lebanon. “If we turned our backs on Lebanon now,” he said, “what would be the future of Israel? At stake is the fate of only the second Arab country to negotiate a major agreement with Israel.”
Islamic Jihad Claims Responsibility
Even after a bomb in a van killed 46 at the U.S. Embassy in April 1983, the U.S. troops maintained a non-martial stance. Sentries' weapons were unloaded and the perimeter fence was not fortified. U.S. troops were drawing sniper fire from areas near their base at the airport for weeks.
It was also the worst single-day death toll for the Marine Corps since the battle of Iwo Jima, as well as for the U.S. military since the first day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The explosives used were equivalent to 12,000 pounds of TNT.
Two minutes later, another terrorist drove into the basement of the nearby French paratroopers' barracks, killing 58 more people in the worst military loss for France since the end of the Algerian War.
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