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Beirut Bombing

In April 1983 a suicide bomb attack against the US Embassy in Beirut changed relations between America and the Islamic world forever. Ryan Crocker tells Witness about the bombing and its aftermath.

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Mon 19 Apr 201022:50GMT
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