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20/09/1984 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut

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Beirut bombing 25 years later

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CNN Beirut Embassy bombing

The Shi'a Islamic militant group Hezbollah, with support and direction from the Islamic Republic of Iran, carried out a suicide car bombing targeting the U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut, Lebanon. The attack killed 24 people.