#Israel: Forty years since Hezbollah bombed the Marine Barracks in Beirut. And Hezbollah threatens the whole of Israel with missiles Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
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#Israel: Forty years since Hezbollah bombed the Marine Barracks in Beirut. And Hezbollah threatens the whole of Israel with missiles Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
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| 0:31.0 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. It is Sunday, October 23, 1983. |
| 0:38.0 | Truck bombs. Beirut Lebanon. |
| 0:42.0 | Driving into the American and French deployment of Marines and personnel, |
| 0:49.0 | to quiet the upset, the disorder, the violence in Beirut and in Lebanon. |
| 0:56.0 | This is the beginning of the conflict with Hezbollah. Hezbollah means party of God. |
| 1:03.0 | At that time, we know now it was headed by a man named Mugnia, now deceased. His son is deceased. |
| 1:10.0 | Mugnia was the party of God, the same organisation that had bombed the US Embassy in Beirut, |
| 1:17.0 | had abducted the head of CIA station chief Mr. Buckley and tortured him to death. |
| 1:24.0 | Forty years ago, right now, Hezbollah, the same Hezbollah, now a raid in Baka, |
| 1:31.0 | the valley north of Israel, with a hundred thousand, how many missiles we don't know, |
| 1:36.0 | and ready to attack in the north of Israel while it deals with the security threat in the south with Hamas. |
| 1:43.0 | I welcome Colonel Jeff McCawson, the United States Army retired, CBS news. |
| 1:49.0 | Dickinson College visiting professor and CEO of Diamond Six Leadership and Strategy. |
| 1:55.0 | Hezbollah was a blow to the United States and a blow to the Reagan administration at the time. |
| 2:01.0 | We've learned a great deal since then about suicide and martyr bombings and about the risk |
| 2:08.0 | that America takes when it enters into this part of the world. |
| 2:12.0 | What is your measure now, Jeff, of the US ability to contain Hezbollah with those two massive fleets |
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