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The April bombing was not the first suicide attack in the region. In December 1981 a suicide bomber attacked the Iraqi embassy in Beirut. Around 30 people were killed, among them the Iraqi ambassador to Lebanon. Another 95 people were injured. [10] In December, 1982, a suicide bomber blew up the Israeli army headquarters in Tyre. Around 75 ...
On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians, and two attackers.
In July 1984, the United States had relocated its embassy operations from West Beirut to the relative security of Aukar, a Christian suburb of East Beirut. [1] When on September 20, 1984, the attacker sped his van laden with 3,000 pounds (1360 kg) of explosives toward the six-story embassy, crucial security measures had not yet been completed at the complex, including a massive steel gate.
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The explosion leveled the embassy and killed 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon, and injured at least 100 others. The attack is considered by some to be the second modern suicide bombing, preceded by the 1927 Bath School bombings and presaged the 1983 United States embassy bombing and the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings .
On the morning of June 6, 1944, news spread through the town of Saint-Lô that Allied forces had landed on nearby Normandy beaches. Many assumed this meant they were about to be liberated.
A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people, mostly women and children, at a public park in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday. ... News. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726. Login / Join. Mail.
On 12 November 2015, two suicide bombers attacked Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, that is inhabited mostly by Shia Muslims. [1] Reports of the number of fatalities concluded that 43 people died directly from the detonation. [2] [1] [3] Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks ...