To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (124305 ) 10/18/2012 7:57:44 PM From: bentway Read Replies (1) | Respond to What did you say when Reagan allowed over 200 Americans to be killed in Lebanon? Mute silence, I imagine.en.wikipedia.org Beirut Barracks Bombing (October 23, 1983 in Beirut , Lebanon ) occurred during the Lebanese Civil War , when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces —members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon —killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing. Suicide bombers detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the American Marines barracks, the death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers , along with sixty Americans injured, representing the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II , the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War , and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II. [1] [ dead link ] In addition, the elderly Lebanese custodian of the building was killed in the first blast. [2] The explosives used were equivalent to 5,400 kg (12,000 pounds) of TNT .1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment were killed and 15 injured, in the single worst military loss for France since the end of the Algerian War . [3] The wife and four children of a Lebanese janitor at the French building were also killed. [4] peacekeeping force from Lebanon , where they had been stationed since the withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization following the Israeli 1982 invasion of Lebanon ."
