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Assassination of Imad Mughniyeh – The Ghost of Beirut: Terrorist Behind the Murder of 241 U.S. Marines
On the morning of October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a yellow Mercedes truck packed with 12,000 pounds of explosives into a U.S. Marine barracks at Beirut International Airport. The explosion killed 241 American service members—220 Marines, 18 Navy sailors, and 3 Army soldiers. It remains the deadliest single-day death toll for the U.S.…