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Forget about finding out who drove the truck into the U.S. Marine compound. Forget about finding out who provided the driver. More important, discover where the munitions were manufactured and who sold them. The real international terrorists are those who supply arms to fanatics...
...long run, is the presence of U.S. Marines in Lebanon. Although the international forces stationed in Beirut can serve as a valuable stabilizing force while the Lebanese hammer out a settlement, their stay should not be open-ended. As the recent car bomb attack at the Marine compound illustrates, the Marines may only serve as a catalyst for still more violence. The United States should withdraw the Marines as soon as they are confident such a withdrawal would not prompt fresh violence...
...make any installation secure from a suicide attack (see box). The truck was said to have passed three unmanned Israeli roadblocks on the coastal highway that runs through Tyre, a Mediterranean port 50 miles south of Beirut. Sentries at two posts opened fire as the truck turned into the compound. David Illouz, one of the Israeli guards, said that he "fired without letup" at the pickup truck and was certain that he had hit the driver. But the truck ripped the gate from its hinges and rolled into the middle of the compound, where it exploded. Nonetheless, Israeli commanders said...
...soldier shouted. A moment later, a litter with a gray blanket covering a body was carried from the bombed-out area. "We discover a body every five minutes," said a colonel, and so it seemed. Five minutes later, another stretcher carried another body to the parking lot of the compound. Soldiers followed two German shepherds who led them to still another body buried in the ruins. "These dogs have already found seven," explained their trainer. Helicopters whipped up dust as they landed, some bringing in rabbis of the Israeli Defense Forces to help with the painful process of identifying...
...being billeted on American ships and ferried ashore by helicopters. Others were hard at work building new fortifications. Most guard posts were being reinforced and rearmed. Six-foot-high mounds of dirt, rows of tar-filled steel drums, sandbags and concertina wire blocked off the entrance to the Marine compound. Ironically, the little-used route through the parking lot that had been followed by a suicide bomber on Oct. 23, killing more than 230 U.S. servicemen, became the only approach to the headquarters. Heaps of dirt were spread around the lot to force approaching traffic to slow down...