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1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing: ‘The BLT Building Is Gone!’

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Hours after the Sunday, Oct. 23, 1983, bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, rescuers comb the wreckage for the wounded and dead.The 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 U.S. military personnel and was a harbinger of a vicious new era in terrorism

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