Friday, Sep. 19, 2008

U.S. Embassy in Beirut

April 18, 1983
Six months before terrorists killed 241 at a U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon, Islamic radicals bombed the U.S. Embassy and killed 63 people, including 17 Americans. It was one of the first times a suicide car bomb was used on an American target. The embassy was attacked again the next year, when a van driven by a suicide bomber exploded and killed 23.