Remembering the Beirut Bombing 

October 23rd is an important anniversary to remember. On that day in 1983, around 6:20 in the morning, a yellow Mercedes truck charged through the barbed-wire fence around the American compound and plowed past two guard stations. It drove straight into the barracks and exploded.  

Eyewitnesses said the force of the blast caused the entire building to float up above the ground for a moment before it pancaked down in a cloud of pulverized concrete and human remains.  

FBI investigators said that it was the largest, non-nuclear explosion since World War II  and certainly the most powerful car bomb ever detonated. 

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