"Thirty years ago this week, suicide bombers used car bombs to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 63, including 17 Americans. In October 1983, a suicidal terrorist succeeded in detonating a truckload of explosives inside the U.S. Marine barracks near the Beirut airport. At the time, the word "jihad" and the phrase "radical Islamists" rarely were mentioned. Most of us in the counterterrorism business believed that those horrific events were related to the long-running Lebanese civil war and the never-ending Arab-Israeli conflict. We were wrong."
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