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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/opinion/23PFER.html
One Deadly Morning in Beirut
(New York Times) Chuck Pfarrer - Twenty years ago Thursday, the U.S. suffered its most humiliating military defeat since Pearl Harbor. On Oct. 23, 1983, a truck loaded with six tons of explosives smashed into the Marine headquarters at Beirut Airport killing 241 Americans. The peacekeepers were withdrawn and the Lebanese people were abandoned to their fate. Lebanon, suffering under the occupation of the Syrian Army, has spent two decades as a lawless, basket case of a nation, a haven for Hizballah thugs and a farm club for suicide bombers.