US Embassy in Beirut bombed

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The bombing of the of the US Embassy in Beirut on the 20th of September, 1984 resulted in the death of 22 people. The embassy had been moved to a supposedly secure location in East Beirut following a previous suicide bombing on the 18th of April, 1983 in which 63 people had died.

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