TARGETED: BEIRUT Preface Sneak Peek

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

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The first of Jack’s new non-fiction series, TARGETED, is available NOW! 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 the Preface of TARGETED: BEIRUT - 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	Preface
0:02.0	Welcome to Beirut 1983
0:06.0	a place of turmoil
0:08.0	a place of death
0:10.0	by the mid-70s the Paris of the Middle East had become a battleground, with Maronite Christians,
0:18.9	Drews, Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, militias, and terrorist groups, all vying for a piece of the
0:27.9	rubble.
0:30.1	Tensions had already hit their boiling point, but there was more destruction to come.
0:35.4	Bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings were the order of the day on terrain where the
0:40.8	CIA, not far removed from the reorganization following the Church Committee and Pike Committee hearings,
0:48.0	would ply their trade in this emerging battleground of the Cold War.
0:53.9	But war in Lebanon was anything but cold.
0:59.2	In 1982, the United States Marines entered the arena.
1:04.0	They were called Peacekeepers.
1:07.0	Having spent time on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now having had the honor of
1:11.7	speaking to the Marines who deployed to Lebanon,
1:15.0	I can say with utmost certainty that they were most certainly in combat,
1:20.9	regardless of the labels placed upon them by the administration.
1:25.0	As a lifelong student of war, for me the 1983 Marine Headquarters and Barracks bombing has long loomed large in my consciousness.
1:36.5	I remember watching news of the event on television with my parents, and remember the Time
1:41.8	and Newsweek magazine covers on our kitchen table.
1:45.0	They used the same powerful photograph of Marines carrying a wounded comrade,
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