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... > social science subjects > sociology > social problems > violence > terrorism > terrorist events > U.S. Marine barracks bombing, Beirut
... > social science subjects > sociology > social problems > murder > mass murder > terrorism > terrorist events > U.S. Marine barracks bombing, Beirut

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U.S. Marine barracks bombing, Beirut  

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  • On October 23, 1983, 241 American and 58 French service personnel were killed, and many more wounded, in two suicide bombings that destroyed the U.S. Marine barracks and a French paratroop barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack is widely thought to have hastened the end of American military involvement in Lebanon. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; U.S. Marine Barracks Bombing, Beirut]

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