presiding over an uneasy calm through early 1983. Then came the U.S. Embassy bombing. A month later Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement under which Israeli soldiers would withdraw from Lebanon, contingent on the withdrawal of the Syrian troops. While the Syrians didnotleave, Israel unilateral...
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 ...
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 ...
"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...
He's been on the US most wanted list for more than forty years after being accused of being involved in the bombing of the US embassy and US marine barracks in 1983 which killed hundreds. But theHezbollahstronghold of Dahieh is a heavily populated crowded residential area and...
Akil served on Hezbollah’s highest military body, the Jihad Council. He was sanctioned by the United States for his alleged involvement in the 1983 bombing that killed more than 300 people at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and the U.S. Marine Corps barracks. ...
and or conviction" of Aqil, who it has said was a leader of Hezbollah in the 1980s, when the group claimed responsibility for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, which killed more than 300 people, and the U.S. Marines barracks in October 1983, which killed 241 U.S. ...
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 senior commander, Ahmed Mahmud Wahbi, had also been killed Friday. He headed the group...
’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, 1983....
Reference to the bombing of the United States embassy in 1983; Details on the United States State Department lifting the travel ban against Lebanon; Information on the performance of the Citibank in Lebanon; How Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri feels about rebuilding relations with the United ...