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1983 Beirut barracks bombing: ‘The BLT Building is gone!’
At 6:22 on Sunday morning Oct. 23, 1983, a 19-ton yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck entered a public parking lot at the heart of Beirut International Airport.
By Richard Ernsberger Jr., HistoryNet