The word “militant” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2005. Today the opening carries none. 1 remains further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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The opening as it read in 2005
1983 , suicide bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut , Lebanon was the deadliest attack on a US diplomatic mission to that time, and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-US attacks by Islamist groups.1The attack was made by a delivery van driven by a suicide bomber , carrying about 400 pounds of explosives drove up to the embassy. It parked under the portico at the very front of the building, where it exploded. The front section of the embassy collapsed, killing 63 people. Seventeen of these were Americans, and eight of them worked for the Central Intelligence Agency . More than a hundred others were wounded. The attack was motivated by the American intervention in the Lebanese Civil War . In the aftermath of the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps by Lebanese Christian militiamen backed by nearby Israeli army units, American troops had landed to try and restore order and central government authority to the war ravaged country. Many groups within Lebanon were opposed to the American presence but the militant group Hezbollah , under the code name " Islamic Jihad ", is believed to have been responsible for the attacks. Along with the Marine Barracks Bombing , the incident prompted the Inman Report , a review of overseas security for the US Department of State . v t e2
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The 1983 U.S. embassy bombing was a suicide bombing against the United States embassy in Beirut , Lebanon on April 18, 1983 that killed over 60 people, mostly embassy staff members and United States Marines and sailors.It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the blast with a message "promising not to allow a single American to remain on Lebanese soil ... we mean every inch of Lebanese territory. ..." The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force , made up of Western countries, including the US, in the Lebanese Civil War , to try and restore order and central government authority.It also followed the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Christian militiamen, and four years after the anti-Western Islamic Revolution in Iran .
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The April 18, 1983 United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut , Lebanon, that killed 63 people, mostly embassy and CIA staff members, several soldiers and one Marine . 17 of the dead were Americans. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is thought of as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups. The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force , made up of Western countries, including the U.S., in the Lebanese Civil War , to try to restore order and central government authority.
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The April 18, 1983 United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut , Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by.The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one US Marine Security Guard .It was the deadliest attack on a US diplomatic mission up to that time, and was considered the beginning of Islamist attacks on US targets.The attack came in the wake of an intervention in the Lebanese Civil War by the United States and other Western countries, which sought to restore order and central government authority.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War The April 18, 1983, United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut , Lebanon , that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one US Marine Security Guard . It was the deadliest attack on a US diplomatic mission up to that time, and was considered the beginning of Islamist attacks on US targets. The attack came in the wake of an intervention in the Lebanese Civil War by the United States and other Western countries, which sought to restore order and central government authority.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War The April 18, 1983, United States Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing on the Embassy of the United States in Beirut , Lebanon , that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one U.S. The attack came in the wake of an intervention in the Lebanese Civil War by the United States and other Western countries. The attacks were claimed by the Islamic Jihad Organization .The United States later believed they were perpetrated by Hezbollah , but Hezbollah denied responsibility. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and was considered the beginning of Islamist attacks on U.S. targets. A history of war resistance in America .Lebanon - Party of God .
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“militant” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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deadliest attack on a us diplomatic mission to that time
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suicide bombing in beirut
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