Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shots fired at the van apparently prevented the driver from reaching his presumed destination, the parking garage underneath the embassy. If the car and its 350 lbs. of explosives had blown up there, the entire building might have collapsed, with terrible consequences. As it was, at least twelve people were killed and 35 wounded, although the casualty figures may turn out to be higher. Among the dead were two Americans attached to the embassy's military liaison office: Army Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth V. Welch of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Navy Petty Officer First Class Michael Ray Wagner...
...ugly standards of Lebanon's recent history, the toll was not all that high. Just 17 months earlier, 63 people had been killed in the car bombing of the old U.S. embassy in West Beirut. Six months later, similar suicide bombings within moments of each other took the lives of 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. Sixty-one others died two weeks after that when a bomb devastated an Israeli military headquarters in the southern port city of Tyre. In the meantime, of course, untold hundreds have died in the continuing chaos throughout Lebanon...
...blast, an anonymous caller, speaking in Arabic, telephoned the Beirut office of Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, and claimed responsibility in the name of Islamic jihad (holy war). This shadowy organization, whose leaders are unknown and whose membership is uncertain, has been associated with the previous car bombings in Beirut. The caller declared, "In the name of God the Almighty, Islamic jihad announces that it is responsible for blowing up a car rigged with explosives, which was driven by one of our suicide commandos. The operation proves that we will carry out our previous promise not to allow...
...thought the dragon's teeth had been placed too far apart to force traffic to a crawl. Countering such criticism, Bartholomew's predecessor as Ambassador to Lebanon, Robert Dillon, pointed out that the security measures in effect last week had at least prevented the bomb-laden car from reaching the embassy building...
April 18, 1983: The U.S. embassy in West Beirut is devastated by a car bomb; 63 people killed, including 17 Americans...