At 6:25 local time on the morning of October 23, 1983, agents of the ayatollah used a suicide bomber to plow a truck filled with explosives into the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack resulted in "the largest non-nuclear explosion that had ever been detonated on the face of the Earth," according to a U.S. federal court judge who found the Islamic Republic of Iran guilty of perpetrating the crime. Locked doors on a building nearly three hundred feet away were ripped off their hinges. All the trees in the surrounding area were stripped completely bare of their leaves. The windows in the control tower at Beirut's international airport were blown out. And the four-story cement and steel Marine facility collapsed into fifteen feet of rubble, ash, and smoke. Please pray this week for those Marines who were wounded and traumatized during that Iran-ordered attack. Please also pray for the family and friends of those Americans who were killed. Pray that those responsible would find justice, and that the victims would experience God's full mercy and comfort.
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