The seeds of today’s Middle East strife were planted in Beirut
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The roots of the capacity of Iran-backed terrorists to inflict harm lie in the October 1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Jack Carr is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Terminal List" and host of the "Danger Close Podcast." His latest book is "Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror" with co-author, military historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Scott. He is a former Navy SEAL Task Unit commander and sniper with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Visit him at officialjackcarr.com and follow him on Instagram, X, and Facebook at @JackCarrUSA.
The violence reflects the damage that Iranian-backed militant groups, like Hamas and Hezbollah, have done in the Middle East for four decades. The roots of their capacity to inflict harm lie in the October 1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, which was the largest non-nuclear blast the FBI ever investigated.
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