When Terror Won - April 18, 1983

from The Daily History Chronicle · host Richard G Backus

On April 18, 1983, a suicide bomber destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing sixty-three people including eight CIA officers in the agency's deadliest single day. The bombing was catastrophic. But the greater catastrophe was what happened after it. Today we explore how America's response taught its enemies the most consequential lesson in modern terrorism history a lesson still being tested in Lebanon right now.

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