The Soviet Embassy was hit on several occasions and was “heavily damaged” during the Israeli shelling of West Beirut. "Sovjetsko je veleposlanstvo pogođeno u nekoliko navrata i „teško oštećeno"" za izraelskog granatiranja zapadnog Bejruta." Literature I think it all ste...
Comments on the suicide car bombing of the U.S. Embassy annex in Lebanon on September 20, 1984. Reminder of how easily terrorism can shatter the uneasy calm of daily human life; Reminder of the vulnerability of American ta...
” Investigators say the pair had organized the earlier attack on the U.S. Embassy and in 1984 began abducting Westerners, mostly Americans, off the streets of Beirut, killing some, while holding others hostage for years. Mughniyah, who was also implicated in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in...
Confirming the death of Aqil, Hezbollah hailed him as "one of its great leaders". Washington had offered a $7 million reward for information on Aqil, calling him a "principal member" of the organisation behind the 1983 Beirut US embassy bombing, which killed 63. Hezbollah said a second seni...
Last year, the U.S. State Department posted a $7 million reward for information leading to his identification, location, arrest or conviction, citing his role in the embassy bombing and in the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon in the 1980s. ...
"The entire attack had taken just ten seconds," Carr writes in his book about the Beirut bombing of Oct. 1983. "The blast, which investigators later determined exceeded 12,000 tons of TNT, proved more than six times as powerful as the one used against the American Embassy in Apr...
By early 1983, the situation seemed to have stabilized until, in April of that year, a car bomb destroyed the U.S. embassy in Beirut. In July, after Israel began a unilateral withdrawal, fighting between the competing militias intensified and violence against the multilateral force, who were...
Embassy’s political section here, was believed to have been an expert on terrorism with wide knowledge of CIA operations throughout the Middle East. He arrived in Beirut in the summer of 1983, charged with rebuilding American intelligence operations after the bombing of the embassy in April, ...
to Kuwait to do the embassy bombing there- which nobody would expect them to do. Not to mention, he also orchestrates the bombings at the Marine bases. All is going as per the plan until one terrible thing happens- Mustafa gets caught in Kuwait as the prime suspect behind the bombing. ...
Akil, the main target ofthe Friday strike, had been wanted by the U.S. for years for his alleged role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and in taking American and German hostages in Lebanon in the 1980s. He was under U.S. sanctions ...