Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's declaration was meant to absolve officers in the operational chain of command who had been criticized for failing to take adequate precautions before a truck bomb killed 241 U.S. servicemen last Oct. 23. The President also used his constitutional power as Commander in Chief of the armed forces to head off courts-martial for the officers. Said...
...Americans," the commission charged. Reinforcing that finding, CBS News reported last week that Iranian pilots are being trained to fly kamikaze missions against the U.S. fleet off the Lebanese coast; CBS also reported that U.S. military vehicles had been stolen in West Germany by Iranian terrorists to use in bomb attacks on American bases in Europe. The Long panel described terrorism as "warfare on the cheap," and noted that "it permits small countries to attack U.S. interests in a manner which, if done openly, would constitute acts of war and justify a direct U.S. military response...
...Marine Colonel Timothy Geraghty, commander of U.S. forces ashore in Lebanon, did not believe that his troops had authority to shoot at a civilian vehicle, even if it seemed bent on crashing into the Marine compound. This passivity is all the more astonishing given the fact that a truck bomb had destroyed much of the U.S. embassy in Beirut only six months earlier...
...concern over the restrictions against inserting magazines in weapons" while inside the compound, the report says. It pins responsibility on Geraghty, who said that he "made a conscious decision" to ban the loaded M-16 rifles "to preclude accidental discharge and possible injury to innocent civilians." Shortly after the bombing, Geraghty was reassigned to the U.S. with other survivors of the bomb blast...
Even though the compound was devastated by the suicide truck bomb, which Murray says is "the largest conventional explosion the FBI has ever investigated," he says, the Marine installation managed to pull together and continue their...