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...anti-Muslim-and therefore prime targets for terrorist attack." Incredibly, according to the report, Marine Colonel Timothy Geraghty, commander of U.S. forces ashore in Lebanon, did not believe that his troops had authority to shoot at a civilian vehicle, even if it seemed bent on crashing into the Marine compound. This passivity is all the more astonishing given the fact that a truck bomb had destroyed much of the U.S. embassy in Beirut only six months earlier...
...commission criticized the low state of alert among the Marines. "Every Marine interviewed expressed concern over the restrictions against inserting magazines in weapons" while inside the compound, the report says. It pins responsibility on Geraghty, who said that he "made a conscious decision" to ban the loaded M-16 rifles "to preclude accidental discharge and possible injury to innocent civilians." Shortly after the bombing, Geraghty was reassigned to the U.S. with other survivors of the bomb blast...
Then Jackson was shuttled to a Damascus military compound. He was the P.O.W.'s second American visitor in a week: Ambassador Robert Paganelli had delivered Goodman a Christmas dinner...
...scores were saved. On South Dakota's huge Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, volunteers brought firewood to one isolated compound just in time: the elderly Indian women had begun to burn their clothing for heat. Jack Fourier, a local rancher, donated a frozen brahma bull to hungry Sioux 50 miles away, and used his chain saw to carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick...
Even though the compound was devastated by the suicide truck bomb, which Murray says is "the largest conventional explosion the FBI has ever investigated," he says, the Marine installation managed to pull together and continue their...