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NATION AND WORLD
Bombers foil security measures
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BEIRUT. Lebanon — The deadly truck-bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Christian East Beirut yesterday circumvented security precautions aimed at preventing suicide missions.
Police said the truck packed with explosives, bearing forged diplomatic license plates, stopped at the embassy's security checkpoint. The driver first argued with guards, police said, then gunned the engine, roared through the checkpoint and raced down the driveway leading to the embassy.
Guards opened fire at the speeding truck but failed to stop it. The truck exploded about 20 yards away from the five-story embassy building, killing 23 people, including at least two Americans, and wounding 71 others
The explosion blew a hole in the ground 12 feet wide and 7 feet deep.
THERE WERE NO physical barriers along the 100-yard-long drive between the checkpoint and the embassy compound.
cheekpoint and the embankment. The attack, like two previous attacks on U.S. installations in the past 17 months, was carried out by a suicide driver.
received a briefing on the attack from a State Department official. Sen Larry Pressler, R.S.D., said he had been told the building's gate was open, which allowed the bombers to drive through after a shootout with gate guards.
And, as in the two other attacks, the Islamic Jihad organization, an underground movement bent on pushing "the last American out of Lebanon," claimed responsibility. The Muslim group claims allegiance to Iran's Aatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
to Irian's Ayatran.
"The American will conduct a security operation, the ones after the previous truck-bomb attacks but what could they do against people who are ready to die . . . How do they stop suicide drivers?" a Lebanese police investigator asked.
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"It's almost impossible to have a perfect" system, he said.
SYSMCH
Last October, a Muslim terrorist drove a truck loaded with dynamite into a Marine headquarters building at Beirut International Airport, killing 241 Americans and wounding 80 servicemen.
On April 18, 1983, a bomb concealed in a truck shattered the U.S. Embassy — then in West Beirut.
AFTER THE 1983 attacks and the departure of the U.S. Marine peacekeeping contingent earlier this year, it was decided to move the U.S. embassy from Muslim west Beirut to the Christian east sector.
Beirut outposts are prime targets
By United Press International
American outposts in Beirut have been a prime target of terrorists since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and more than 280 Americans have been killed in the violence.
Yesterday's bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was the third attack on a major U.S. installation in 17 months
The Islamic lihad, a shadowy terrorist group that professes loyalty to Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has boasted that it is responsible for all of the attacks.
headquarters building at Beirut International Airport, killing himself and 241 Americans and wounding 80 servicemen
American rescue run at the A simultaneous suicide run at the headquarters of the French peace-keeping force across town killed 58 soldiers.
Other American deaths include 13 Marines killed in combat or at the hands of terrorists. Also, three American civilians kidnapped in Beirut have never been found.
It was the April 1983 attack, which killed 63 people, that forced the construction of a new American embassy and prompted the decision to place it in a relatively peaceful suburb of Christian east Beirut with a number of built-in security measures.
darker of brown in the center.
The new compound opened Aug. 2 -
U. S. Marines came ashore in Lebanon as part of a multinational peace-keeping force on Sept. 29, 1982 — more than three months after the Israeli invasion.
precisely seven weeks before another Jihad terror drove a truck full of explosives through a hail of bullets from guards in the latest attack.
The peace-keeping force was withdrawn in February and the last U.S. combat troops — a contingent of about 100 Marines that had been guarding the temporary U.S. mission housed in the British Embassy — pulled out July 31, just before the new U.S. Embassy opened.
Security at the new embassy had been left to a contingent of 15 Marines and a special Lebanese security force.
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Lebanon continued from p.1
The Islamic Jihad organization, a proIranian underground movement bent on pushing "the last American out of Lebanon," claimed responsibility for the explosion in a telephone call to a Western news agency
TWO WEEKS AGO, a person identifying himself as a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad warned of an attack on U.S. installation
The estimated 330 pounds of TNT in the truck detonated just 20 feet short of the six-story embassy building, near a crowd gathered at the visa section. The explosion ripped off the building's facade and gouged a crater 9-feet deep and 24-feet wide.
The blast sent girders tumbling out of the building, damaged dozens of cars and shattered windows.
Lebanese military officials said the driver was shot and killed and the other man was presumed to have died in the attack
The dummy apparently threw all vaporized," a security officer said. "We have found no trace of him and only bits of the engine of the truck we were told he was in. The only thing we have is the crater."
State Department spokesman John Hughes said U.S. diplomatic posts around the world were put on heightened alert because of the attack.
The University of Kansas and the Lawrence community together have a large, vital gay community. Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas has been serving that community for 15 years.
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CONSTITUTION
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II STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
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