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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (600395)8/5/2004 9:33:53 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Respond to of 769670
 
SO the thousands who might now just be sitting in the dessert in Saudia Arabia would not have been attacked. No one would have been killed.

Marine Barracks Bombing - 23 Oct. 1983
In the early morning of October 23, 1983, the First Battalion, 8th Marines Headquarters building was destroyed by a non-Lebanese, terrorist-driven truck, laden with compressed gas-enhanced explosives. This truck, like many others, had become a familiar sight at the airport and so did not raise any alarm on this morning. The resulting explosion and the collapse of the building killed 241 Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers.