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...signals that hostages might be seized by revolutionaries in Iran were not properly weighed by Jimmy Carter and his aides. Marine officers in Beirut apparently did not give enough credence to the evidence available that terrorists might mount an attack with a truck full of high explosives, even if it meant blowing themselves up. Both events were too far from American experience...
Forget about finding out who drove the truck into the U.S. Marine compound. Forget about finding out who provided the driver. More important, discover where the munitions were manufactured and who sold them. The real international terrorists are those who supply arms to fanatics...
...demolished military headquarters, Israeli officials lamented the fact that a recently installed barricade of barrels and concrete "tiger's teeth" had failed to block the terrorist's truck. His success demonstrated, as if further proof were needed, how difficult it is to make any installation secure from a suicide attack (see box). The truck was said to have passed three unmanned Israeli roadblocks on the coastal highway that runs through Tyre, a Mediterranean port 50 miles south of Beirut. Sentries at two posts opened fire as the truck turned into the compound. David Illouz, one of the Israeli...
...committee members were not persuaded by Kelley's assertion that despite the embassy attack, "no one anticipated" that a terrorist using a five-ton truck would be able to crash through Marine defenses. As Maine's Senator William Cohen put it, "It's not a leap of logic to see if they bomb you with a car, they can bomb you with a truck...
Kelley explained that Marines can load their rifles in "two seconds" and "in my professional judgment, it would have been impossible to stop the truck with small-arms fire." Retorted Kentucky's Representative Larry Hopkins: "Maybe the M-16 would not have stopped the truck. We'll never know. But one thing we do know is that an empty M-16 couldn't have stopped the truck." In fact, during last week's almost identical attack on an Israeli military headquarters in southern Lebanon, an Israeli guard did shoot the driver, causing the truck to explode...