Iran Must Pay $2.6 Billion for '83 Attack on Marines in Lebanon

[Washington Post] Glenn Kessler - U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth Friday ordered Iran to pay more than $2.6 billion to nearly 1,000 family members and a handful of survivors of a 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 soldiers. Hizbullah carried out the suicide bombing on Oct. 23, 1983, but in a ruling in 2003, Lamberth found that Iran was "legally responsible" for supporting Hizbullah with financial and logistical support to carry out the attack.


2007-09-10 01:00:00

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