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MarineCombatEngineer

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4. Here, this explains it
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 09:17 PM
Sep 2024
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-marines-deployed-to-lebanon

During the Lebanese Civil War, a multinational force including 800 U.S. Marines lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon. It was the beginning of a problem-plagued mission that would stretch into 17 months and leave 262 U.S. servicemen dead.

In 1975, a bloody civil war erupted in Lebanon, with Palestinian and leftist Muslim guerrillas battling militias of the Christian Phalange Party, the Maronite Christian community, and other groups. During the next few years, Syrian, Israeli, and United Nations interventions failed to resolve the factional fighting, and in August 1982 a multinational force arrived to oversee the Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon.

The Marines left Lebanese territory on September 10 but returned on September 29 following the massacre of Palestinian refugees by a Christian militia. The next day, the first U.S. Marine to die during the mission was killed while defusing a bomb. On April 18, 1983, the U.S. embassy in Beirut was devastated by a car bomb, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. Then, on October 23, Lebanese terrorists evaded security measures and drove a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. Fifty-eight French soldiers were killed almost simultaneously in a separate suicide terrorist attack. On February 7, 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the end of U.S. participation in the peacekeeping force.

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This piece of shit, now blown up pieces of shit, is responsible for many of my friends deaths MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #1
I remember when that happened soandso Sep 2024 #2
Here, this explains it MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #4
Thanks soandso Sep 2024 #6
You just described Lebanon back then perfectly. MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #7
Sounded kind of cool soandso Sep 2024 #8
Is that one of the terrorists edhopper Sep 2024 #16
Not that I know of, MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #17
Probably other terrorists then edhopper Sep 2024 #19
Such great news that he was killed. jimfields33 Sep 2024 #26
Failed to mention the soccer field missile here but still important info soandso Sep 2024 #3
And here is the Latini River soandso Sep 2024 #5
Why is the Lebanese army standing idly by allowing Hezbollah to attack Lebanon's neighbor? TheKentuckian Sep 2024 #22
Hezbollah is much stronger and better equipped than the Lebanese army. Beastly Boy Sep 2024 #31
"warned that the UK-trained Lebanese army would not "stand idly" by and watch if Israel launches a ground invasion" EX500rider Sep 2024 #25
On the Israelis from the north soandso Sep 2024 #9
"Settlers", "settlements" DavidDvorkin Sep 2024 #10
I know soandso Sep 2024 #11
Hmmmm... I see. AloeVera Sep 2024 #28
You are correct soandso Sep 2024 #29
Thank you. AloeVera Sep 2024 #30
Israel didn't take an inch of the land designated for the Palestinian state. Beastly Boy Sep 2024 #32
Were there such a thing as "Palestinians" back then? Mossfern Sep 2024 #33
The area was called Palestine soandso Sep 2024 #34
So the Jewish people living there were Palestinians too. Mossfern Sep 2024 #36
I don't know how they referred to themselves soandso Sep 2024 #37
Etymology of Palestine/Palestinian soandso Sep 2024 #38
Lebanese FM using the same word, making same threat soandso Sep 2024 #14
Hey Nasrallah, how about wiping every last one of you off the face of the Earth and salting the ground where TheKentuckian Sep 2024 #23
However one feels about this conflict soandso Sep 2024 #12
He keeps killing terrorists and it will change the Middle East! jimfields33 Sep 2024 #27
I've seen this news elsewhere, too soandso Sep 2024 #13
TY for all this information, soandso. Cha Sep 2024 #15
How would the US or any other country respond to a neighboring country firing thousands of rockets at its towns? EX500rider Sep 2024 #18
I've often asked that question, and the only answer I ever get is, "That's completely different!" DavidDvorkin Sep 2024 #20
We'd cry havoc & let slip the dogs of war...the JDAM's and Reapers would be overhead in hours EX500rider Sep 2024 #21
The same way, no doubt soandso Sep 2024 #24
Something needs to be done about these settlers soandso Sep 2024 #35
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