Anonymous ID: a51ba0 Oct. 16, 2023, 4:20 p.m. No.19746949   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6966 >>6968 >>7472

Early on a Sunday morning, 23 October 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War.

The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians, and two attackers.

 

The first suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb at the building serving as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Battalion Landing Team – BLT 1/8) of the 2nd Marine Division, killing 220 marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II and the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Armed Forces since the first day of the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War.

Another 128 Americans were wounded in the blast; 13 later died of their injuries, and they are counted among the number who died.

An elderly Lebanese man, a custodian/vendor known to work and sleep in his concession stand next to the building, was also killed in the first blast.

The explosives used were later estimated to be equivalent to as much as 12,000 pounds (5,400 kg) of TNT.

 

Minutes later, a second suicide bomber struck the nine-story Drakkar building, a few kilometers away, where the French contingent was stationed; 55 paratroopers from the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment and three paratroopers of the 9th Parachute Chasseur Regiment were killed and 15 injured.

It was the worst French military loss since the end of the Algerian War.

The wife and four children of a Lebanese janitor at the French building were also killed, and more than twenty other Lebanese civilians were injured.

 

Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for the bombings and said that the aim was to force the MNF out of Lebanon.

According to Caspar Weinberger, then United States Secretary of Defense, there is no knowledge of who did the bombing.

Some analysis highlights the role of Hezbollah and Iran, calling it "an Iranian operation from top to bottom".

There is no consensus on whether Hezbollah existed at the time of the bombing.

The attacks eventually led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed following the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) withdrawal in the aftermath of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings

Anonymous ID: a51ba0 Oct. 16, 2023, 4:27 p.m. No.19746993   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7003 >>7341 >>7358 >>7522 >>7646 >>7743

Joe Biden Prepares 2,000 U.S. Military Troops to “Support or Advise” Israeli War

theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/16/joe-biden-prepares-2000-u-s-military-troops-to-support-or-advise-israeli-war

October 16, 2023

Interesting development….

(Via Wall Street Journal) – The U.S. military has selected roughly 2,000 troops to prepare for a potential deployment to support Israel, U.S. defense officials said.

 

The troops are tasked with missions like advising and medical support, the officials said, and they are from across the U.S. armed services. They aren’t intended to serve in a combat role, the officials said. No infantry have been put on prepare-to-deploy order.

 

The troops are currently stationed both inside the Middle East and outside, including Europe, the officials said. It isn’t clear under what circumstances the U.S. could deploy the troops or to where, but the Pentagon decision signaled it is preparing to support Israeli troops should Israel launch a ground incursion into Gaza.

 

It is unclear how many of those troops, should they be deployed, would go into Israel. But the officials said that at least some of them could enter the country to support Israeli forces. A predeployment order doesn’t mean the troops will certainly deploy but rather shortens the time troops need to be ready to move. (more)

 

 

Joshua 1:9 “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”

Forget the noise.

 

Always pray for our troops.

Anonymous ID: a51ba0 Oct. 16, 2023, 4:30 p.m. No.19747012   🗄️.is 🔗kun

'' Exclusive: US to send 2nd aircraft carrier to eastern Mediterranean''

 

abcnews.go.com/International/exclusive-us-send-2nd-aircraft-carrier-eastern-mediterranean/story

Martha Raddatz, Luis Martinez

USS Eisenhower will join the USS Ford off of Israel

 

In this June 13, 2016, file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the aircraft carrie…

 

The Pentagon has ordered a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean near Israel to deter Iran or Hezbollah from joining the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to U.S. officials.

 

A senior U.S. official and a U.S. official told ABC News that the USS Eisenhower carrier strike group will be ordered to the eastern Mediterranean to join the USS Gerald R Ford carrier strike group that arrived there earlier this week and is in international waters off of Israel.

 

"I have directed the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) to begin moving to the Eastern Mediterranean," said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a statement confirming the deployment. "As part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas's attack on Israel."

 

Senior U.S. officials have said publicly this week that the presence of the USS Ford carrier strike group in the eastern Mediterranean and the addition of more U.S. Air Force fighter jets to the region was intended to show the U.S. commitment to Israel and to serve as a deterrent to Iran and Hezbollah not to get involved in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

 

"These posture increases were intended to serve as an unequivocal demonstration in deed and not only in words of U.S. support for Israel's defense and serve as a deterrent signal to Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah, and any other proxy across the region who might be considering exploiting the current situation to escalate conflict," a senior U.S. defense official said Monday. "Those adversaries should think twice."

 

Having the Eisenhower joining the Ford will increase the show of force enhancing that message of deterrence.

 

A third U.S. official told ABC News that the Pentagon is also considering the deployment of the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship closer to Israel to provide additional support if needed. The consideration of the ship and the rotary aircraft it carries while on deployment to the Middle East was first reported by CNN.

 

The Eisenhower strike group left Norfolk, Virginia, earlier on Saturday bound for a previously scheduled deployment that would take it to the Middle East via the Mediterranean Sea where it was to participate in previously-scheduled exercises in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility.

 

Its pending deployment led to speculation that it might be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean to join the USS Ford, but a Pentagon statement would only say that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would "continue to review both the Eisenhower and Ford's deployment plans as he considers the appropriate balance of maritime capability across theaters in support of national security priorities."

 

The Eisenhower strike group includes the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower and the guided missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG-58), and the guided missile destroyers USS Laboon (DDG-58), USS Mason (DDG-87) and USS Gravely (DDG-107).

 

The USS Ford strike group arrived in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday and in addition to the carrier includes the cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), as well as destroyers USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116), USS Ramage (DDG 61), USS Carney (DDG 64), and USS Roosevelt (DDG 80).

Anonymous ID: a51ba0 Oct. 16, 2023, 5:23 p.m. No.19747368   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: a51ba0 Oct. 16, 2023, 6:09 p.m. No.19747714   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is sworn in by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio during ceremonial re-enactment swearing-in Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. At 30 years old, she is the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Representatives. (Connor Radnovich/Times Union)Connor Radnovich