1983 Beirut barracks bombings

The 1983 Beirut barracks bombings were a double terrorist attack that happened on 23 October 1983 during the Lebanese Civil War. Two suicide truck bombs hit buildings housing French and American troops. In total, 299 people were killed. A group called Islamic Jihad Organization claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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The USMC barracks in Beirut
This is the building that was destroyed in October 1983 by a suicide truck bomber. That happened about a year after this photograph was made.
Sketch map of the route taken by the suicide bomber on the morning of October 23, 1983. [From the Long Commission Report].
Diagram showing Hezbollah SVBIED terror attack on USMC barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983.
Marine Gen. P.X. Kelley (left) and Col. Tim Geraghty (right) take Vice President George H. W. Bush on a tour around the site of the Beirut barracks bombing two days after the explosion.
Marine Barracks in Beirut after bombing, October 23, 1983
President Ronald Reagan's keynote speech to the Rev. Jerry Falwell's "Baptist Fundamentalism '84" convention: the marines and their chaplains at the scene of the bombing
Chaplains, U.S. Marines, and family members observe a moment of silence during a memorial service
USS New Jersey fires a salvo against anti-government forces in the Shouf, January 9, 1984