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Beirut Veterans of America
23 years ago today a truck carrying the equivalent of 20,000 pounds of TNT detonated on the ground floor of the Beirut barracks.
The result was the deaths of 241 Marines, sailors and soldiers.
Many think Hezbollah did the deed, but it seems that has never been proven and many within our government have no idea of who really did it. Iran was certainly in Lebanon at this time, and are still there via Hezbollah. This is one of the main reasons we can NOT let Iran get a nuke, their LONG history of terror. No US President would never launch a nuke on a civilian population due to moral reasons, the Iranian President doesn't see to have this problem though.
Was this event the start of the war on terror? I don't know of any major terror attacks on American forces before this one.
23 years ago today a truck carrying the equivalent of 20,000 pounds of TNT detonated on the ground floor of the Beirut barracks.
The result was the deaths of 241 Marines, sailors and soldiers.
Many think Hezbollah did the deed, but it seems that has never been proven and many within our government have no idea of who really did it. Iran was certainly in Lebanon at this time, and are still there via Hezbollah. This is one of the main reasons we can NOT let Iran get a nuke, their LONG history of terror. No US President would never launch a nuke on a civilian population due to moral reasons, the Iranian President doesn't see to have this problem though.
Was this event the start of the war on terror? I don't know of any major terror attacks on American forces before this one.