TARGETED: BEIRUT Chapter One Sneak Peek

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

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TARGETED: BEIRUT Chapter One Sneak Peek On September 24, the first in Jack’s new non-fiction series, TARGETED, will be released. This is the first in a new series written with Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott exploring history’s most devastating terrorist attacks and their enduring global impacts. This inaugural installment of TARGETED delves into the tragic events of October 23, 1983, when terrorists struck the U.S. Marine Corps barracks and headquarters building in Beirut, Lebanon. The blast was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and resulted in the Marines greatest single-day loss of life since the battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Join Jack in reflecting on the lessons of this pivotal moment in American history by listening to Chapter 1 of TARGETED: BERUIT - THE 1983 MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING AND THE UNTOLD ORIGIN STORY OF THE WAR ON TERROR, narrated by Ray Porter. There are lessons in the pages of history. Order your copy of TARGETED: BEIRUT HERE. Buy the audiobook https://bit.ly/TargetedBeirutAudio Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from TARGETED: BEIRUT by Jack Carr and James M. Scott, read by Ray Porter. Copyright © 2024 by Rainsford Consulting LLC. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. SPONSORS: TARGETED: BERUIT The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror – https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/targeted-beirut/ Bravo Company Manufacturing: Visit us on the web at http://jackcarr.co/bcm and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA.com SIG: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the legendary SIG SAUER P226. Learn more here - https://jackcarr.co/SIG40thP226 Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here - https://shop.officialjackcarr.com/

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0:00.0	Part 1, April 1983 to September 1983.
0:08.2	You are about to embark on a mission of great importance
0:11.1	to our nation and the free world.
0:14.7	President Ronald Reagan, August 25, 1982.
0:21.8	Chapter 1.
0:23.0	Beirut has become synonymous with death and destruction.
0:29.0	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial, April 20th, 1983.
0:37.8	The Black GMC pickup truck idled alongside the curb of Beirut's seashore drive at 1243 p.m. on April 18th, 1983.
0:48.6	Secured in the truck bed and hidden under a canvas tarp, sat enough penterithritol tetranitrate, a high-powered explosive
0:57.1	favored by military's quarry blasters and, of course, terrorists, to rival 2,000 pounds of TNT.
1:07.2	The hefty payload, as one witness would later tell investigators,
1:11.4	forced the rear of the late model pickup to sag.
1:16.6	The driver scanned the midday traffic that crawled through the Lebanese capital,
1:21.2	spotting a dated green Mercedes in the oncoming lane.
1:25.3	The German car's headlights flashed three times, signaling the truck driver to shift into
1:30.6	gear and ease back into traffic.
1:34.4	The mission was a go.
1:37.7	A mile away, towering over the Cornish with a line since it originally opened its doors as a hotel three decades earlier.
1:55.9	The crescent-shaped embassy that front of the palm-lined Avenue de Paris employed 341 people
2:02.2	who helped overseas Americans,
2:04.0	processed visas, and advanced diplomatic relations.
2:09.0	It had been a quiet Monday in Beirut, a welcome reprieve in a city battered by eight years of civil
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