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Thursday, 01 December 2005 |
 Andy 'Warpig' Stevens |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 June 2008 )
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Posted by bbs
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Sunday, 23 October 1983 |
 United States Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.
"At approximately 0622 on Sunday, 23 Oct. 1983, the
Battalion Landing Team headquarters building in the Marine Amphibious Unit
compound at Beirut International Airport was destroyed by a terrorist bomb. The
catastrophic attack took the lives of 241 Marines, sailors and soldiers and
wounded more than 100 others. The bombing was carried out by one lone terrorist
driving a yellow Mercedes Benz stake-bed truck that accelerated through the
public parking lot south of the BLT headquarters building, where it exploded.
The truck drove over the barbed and concertina wire obstacle, passed between two
Marine guard posts without being engaged by fire, entered an open gate, passed
around one sewer pipe barrier and between two others, flattened the Sergeant of
the Guard's sandbagged booth at the building's entrance, penetrated the lobby of
the building and detonated while the majority of the occupants slept. The force
of the explosion [12,000 pounds] ripped the building from its foundation. The
building then imploded upon itself. Almost all the occupants were crushed or
trapped inside the wreckage.""
Let us not forget
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LTC.Warpig
1st Battalion 8th Marines Commanding |
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