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US Mission Marks 40th Anniversary of Beirut Embassy Bombing

Ambassador Shea laid a wreath at the US Embassy memorial. Photo: US Embassy website

US Ambassador to Beirut Dorothy Shea has said that Hezbollah has failed in its efforts to “break us,” adding “no one can break the resolve we all share.”

The US mission on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the April 18, 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, in which a suicide bomber attacked the Embassy, killing 63, including 52 Lebanese and American Embassy employees.

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