• On 8 March 1985, a car bomb exploded between 9 and 45 metres from the house of Shia cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, in a...
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  • Beirut bombings may refer to the following bombings that have occurred in Beirut: 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut 1982 Beirut bombing 1983 United...
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    about the 1983 bombings, entitled Targeted, which is set for release in late 2024. 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut Tyre headquarters bombings, similar attacks...
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  • States embassy bombing in Beirut 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut 1985 Beirut car bombings War of Camps (19 May 1985 – July 1988) War...
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  • "deadliest day in CIA history". The role of the CIA in the 1985 Beirut car bombings has been debated. In late August 2024, the CIA was credited with...
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    also the target of several assassination attempts, including the 1985 Beirut car bombing. His death was followed by a huge turnout in Lebanon, visits by...
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  • The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon. Retrieved 22 November 2014. "Iraq car bombings kill 19 in central Baghdad". BBC News. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 22 November...
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  • On 15 August 2013, a car bomb exploded in Beirut, Lebanon killing 27 people and injuring over 200 people. The car bomb was intended for the stronghold...
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    suicide car bombings are predominantly associated with the Middle East, particularly in recent decades. A notable suicide car bombing was the 1983 Beirut barracks...
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    "deadliest day in CIA history". The role of the CIA in the 1985 Beirut car bombings has been debated, with Bob Woodward claiming the attack was funded...
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    2004, a series of bombings and assassinations struck Lebanon, most of them in and around the capital, Beirut. This wave of bombings began with the assassination...
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    and Begin, in which the former said the bombings were going too far and needed to stop, Begin ordered the bombings stopped. On 12 August, the Israeli cabinet...
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  • bombings began in Paris in early 1985 with the bombing of a Marks & Spencer department store, and of the Jewish Rivoli Beaubourg cinema. Two bombings...
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  • Altogether, these attacks killed 659 people ..." 24 May 1982. Car bomb attack on French Embassy in Beirut killing 12 and wounding 27. Islamic Jihad is one of several...
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    have frequently placed Lebanon, and Beirut in particular, on their travel warnings lists due to the many car bombings and orchestrated acts of political...
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    of Lebanon was killed in a car bombing in Beirut. Seven others were also killed. In the 12 November 2015 Beirut bombings, two suicide bombers detonated...
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  • and recalling its envoy from Paris. On 25 May 1982, a car bomb inside the French Embassy in Beirut killed 11 people. Bréguet and Kopp were charged in court...
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  • Imad Mughniyeh (category Deaths by car bomb)
    in many suicide bombings, murders, kidnappings, and assassinations. It began with the Beirut barracks bombing and U.S. embassy bombings, both of which...
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  • The 1983 Kuwait bombings were attacks on six key installations on 12 December 1983, two months after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. The 90-minute coordinated...
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    TWA Flight 847 (category 1980s crimes in Beirut)
    700 Shia Muslims from Israeli custody and took the plane repeatedly to Beirut and Algiers. Later Western analysis considered them members of the Hezbollah...
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  • Hezbollah (category 1985 establishments in Lebanon)
    believed to be responsible for the bombing of the US embassy and the American and French barracks bombings in Beirut in 1983, the assassination of Rafic...
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    September 12, 2010. "60 killed by Beirut car bomb". The Guardian. London. March 9, 1985. Retrieved April 20, 2010. "1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader"...
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    in 2000. On 29 March 1991, a car bomb in Antelias district of East Beirut killed 3 people. On 30 December 1991, a car bomb killed 15 bystanders and injured...
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    destroyed. On 8 March 1985, a car bomb exploded in Bir al-Abid, south Beirut, killing 80 and injuring over 400. On 8 August 1985, a summit was held in...
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    Elie Hobeika (category Deaths by car bomb in Lebanon)
    Parliament of Lebanon. In January 2002, he was assassinated in a car bombing at his house in Beirut, shortly before he was to testify about the Sabra and Shatila...
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    Hezbollah's cell responsible for the 1983 US embassy bombing and the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings. On 21 July 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury...
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  • Syrian-controlled Beqaa Valley. This attack inaugurated the saga of suicide car- and truck-bombings in Lebanon. On 28 April, the fighting between Christian LF and...
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    Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (Arabic: مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بيروت, French: Aéroport international de Beyrouth - Rafic Hariri, previously...
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  • the Cold War, the Nicaraguan Contras affair, Iran Contra, the 1985 Beirut car bombings, and other seminal events in the history of the CIA. Lauder was...
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  • ISBN 978-0-312-21593-4. Llewellyn, Tim (2010). Spirit of the Phoenix: Beirut and the Story of Lebanon. I.B.Tauris. p. xiii. ISBN 978-1-84511-735-1. Knudsen...
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