apr 18, 1983 - Syria controls Baalbek
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As of 18 April 1983, Syria controlled Baalbek and the Beqaa Valley.
On 18 April a suicide bomber drove a delivery van packed with explosives into the lobby of the U.S. Embassy at west Beirut, killing 63 people – among the dead were Robert Ames, a senior Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, and six personnel from the CIA station in Lebanon. Responsibility was claimed by the previously unknown Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO), a Lebanese Shi'ite terrorist group supported by Iran and based near Baalbek in the Syrian-controlled Beqaa Valley.
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Lebanese Civil War
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