Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement provided the explosives used in the 1983 truck bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut, according to a report in Newsweek. Citing a U.S. National Security Agency phone tap, an article in the news magazine’s Nov. 15 issue also linked Iranian officials to the bombing.
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