1983 Beirut barracks bombing event
also: Marine bombing at the barracks, Beirut bombing, bombing, suicide mission, final demise
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Claims (6)
Israel covered_up
1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted
“to house a very large bomb. And Israel's informant told Israel that it was to kill Americans. Israel, by the way, didn't bother to tell anybody that. They, throughout the entire quote-unquote UN operation that was not UN at all, they would …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 7:38
Mossad covered_up
1983 Beirut barracks bombing book_quoted
“destined for use as it was going to hit a major target. Now, Mossad knew that for the size of what the inside of this van looked like, because it was very detailed intelligence, there was only a few logical targets that it would be used for…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 50:35
Israel covered_up
1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted
“Let me say this very slowly. The only intelligence that was ever provided about who was responsible for that bombing was Israel. The only intelligence on who was responsible came from Israel. I wonder why that is. At Mossad's headquarters, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 54:43
Hezbollah carried_out_attack
1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted
“Passed guards at the Marine Airport compound and detonated an explosive with the force of 1,200,000 pounds of dynamite under the building housing Marines and other U.S. personnel. Almost simultaneously, a car bomb exploded at the French com…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 44:57
Robert McFarlane ordered_assassination_of
1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted
“The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine Corps officer detailed to the White Hou…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 41:52
Hezbollah carried_out_attack
1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted
“He probably wouldn't want me to call him out anyway. But he made a comment about on my post about we all know that Hezbollah was involved in the Beirut bombing. And my immediate response to him was, how do you know that was were they wearin…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 5:14
Mentions (26)
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Good evening, everybody. We are live, live today. It is June 18th. Had to pick up the calendar. It's Operation Gladio Night, you guys. I got my co-host with me tonight, the Colonel. We are on Chapter 59. We're going to be talking about the …
▶ 2:23
But we're not going to let them. No, we're not. So the colonel contacts me yesterday and she's like, we're going to talk about Beirut and I'm going to blow the top off your head, Alpha. So I am like, what the heck are we going to learn toni…
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He probably wouldn't want me to call him out anyway. But he made a comment about on my post about we all know that Hezbollah was involved in the Beirut bombing. And my immediate response to him was, how do you know that was were they wearin…
▶ 44:29
The fight now was truly joined between the Shia Muslims and the Marines, who were essentially pinned down at the airport bunkers and under orders not to take offensive action. Not to take offensive action. Sitting ducks. The tragic climax o…
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Passed guards at the Marine Airport compound and detonated an explosive with the force of 1,200,000 pounds of dynamite under the building housing Marines and other U.S. personnel. Almost simultaneously, a car bomb exploded at the French com…
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We rewarded Israel. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if you had a chance to get it because I know you were looking at something, Colonel, but I have this map that they drew up of that bombing attack that took place on October 23rd. It sketches it o…
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He goes on to say, in the summer of 1983, an informant had told Mossad about a large Mercedes truck that was being fitted out by the Shiite Muslims with spaces that could hold bombs. He said it was even larger than usual spaces for this, so…
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At the same time, however, all of Israeli installations were giving specific details in case they were the target. Wow. Obviously, they felt that it was relevant information. To send detail to their own units, but not the Americans, the all…
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Passing well within sight of Israeli sentries in their nearby base, going through a Lebanese army checkpoint and turning left into the parking lot, a U.S. Marine guard reported with alarm that the truck was gathering speed, and before he co…
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smashing through another barrier and ramming over a wall of sandbags into the lobby, exploding with a terrific force that instantly reduced the building to rubble. A few minutes later, another truck smashed through the French paratrooper he…
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The loss of the 241 US Marines, most of them still sleeping in their cots at the time of the suicide mission, was on the highest single-day death toll for Americans since the 246 died throughout Vietnam at the start of the Tet Offensive. Wi…
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Marines obviously did not have much in way of intelligence regarding the local situation in Beirut, thanks to Mossad, which knew about the truck being fitted with explosives for at least three months and decided not to give any specific war…
▶ 57:40
was meant for the Marines who they refused to warn. That's if you buy the Mossad version. This guy thinks that the entire incident was set up to get back at Captain Charles Johnson for the embarrassment of what he did with the IDF tanks. An…
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That went up the chain of command in the Marine Corps instantly. And he wrote the letter to the SecDef and said, that needs to stop immediately. And that was the lead up to the Beirut bombing of where the Marines were. And that type of reac…
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The blow energized Langley. The U.S. government began to crack down on arms shipments to Iran in Operation Staunch. So again, we're supplying them. They blow up Americans and then we crack down on them. And even more ambitious dual operatio…
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Followed on October 23rd, 1983. That's where the 241 American Marines were killed, plus another 100 injured. Bombings continued of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait and Israeli military headquarters, the American Embassy in Beirut again, this time…
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Drug trafficking. We can't have a communist screw that up. So, had to get him out. And then, of course, Beirut. He goes into that. And, you know, I had no idea until we started doing this research project years ago. The real truth about Bei…
▶ 7:08
And now that we know that most of the quote unquote Iranians were not actually Iranians, it was very interesting to go back and reread all of the actual history that got reported, not just the news things that were used to brainwash us, tha…
▶ 7:38
to house a very large bomb. And Israel's informant told Israel that it was to kill Americans. Israel, by the way, didn't bother to tell anybody that. They, throughout the entire quote-unquote UN operation that was not UN at all, they would …
▶ 8:05
Be on the lookout. Hey, with nothing specific in it, even though they had very specific, actionable intelligence, that a bunch of Americans were going to get blown up. And I also covered the fact that in the lead up to this, that the Israel…
▶ 8:32
coming at them with guns, rolling tanks into their area. Just a perpetual harassment campaign had been lodged against the Marines. And it got so bad that the Marine Corps commander on the ground ran it up. So they ran it up the operational …
▶ 9:01
of the Marine Corps. And the commandant of the Marine Corps went to Caspar Weinberger and said, hey, you need to handle this. Look at what's going on. It's Israel actually harassing the U.S. You need to get a handle on that. Tell them to st…
▶ 9:28
don't have enough guts to put shit in writing. That was not the case with the Marine Corps Commandant. He wrote a very nasty letter that you can find on the internet to Caspar Weinberger saying that it was a total disgrace what Israel was d…
▶ 9:58
Why they did not provide that actionable intelligence to the United States. Their answer was very simple. They didn't want to burn their informant. One guy, 300 Americans. Not even a question when it came to Israel's decision. Best ally, in…
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bit of that money was siphoned off by the ISI to fund their nuclear program as well. So yeah, we bought that too. And oh, by the way, then they later on sell it to Iran. Yeah, so in a way, everything circles back around to us. We fund all o…
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Case in point are the bombings of the embassy building in Beirut, the subsequent bombing of the marine barracks at the Beirut airport and the trade center in New York. All were truck bombs with the exception in deference to the explosives. …