[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 5985]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 SENATE RESOLUTION 516--SOLEMNLY COMMEMORATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF 
 THE TRAGIC APRIL 1983 BOMBING OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN BEIRUT 
 AND REMEMBERING THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES AND THOSE WHO WERE INJURED

  Mr. LUGAR (for himself, Mr. Biden, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Feingold, and Mr. 
Casey) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
agreed to:

                              S. Res. 516

       Whereas, on April 18, 1983, terrorists detonated a bomb at 
     the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 
     people, including 42 American and Lebanese Embassy staff;
       Whereas the bombing injured many other people, including 35 
     Embassy staff;
       Whereas President Ronald Reagan denounced the ``vicious 
     terrorist bombing'' as a ``cowardly act''; and
       Whereas the April 18, 1983 attack was at the time the 
     deadliest attack against a United States diplomatic mission 
     in history, but was followed by other terrorist attacks 
     against Americans in Beirut including the bombing of the 
     United States Marines barracks in Beirut on October 23, 1983, 
     which killed 241 members of the United States Armed Forces, 
     the bombing of the United States Embassy annex in Beirut on 
     September 20, 1984, which killed 12 people, including 9 
     Embassy staff, and the bombing of a United States Embassy 
     vehicle on January 15, 2008, which injured 2 Lebanese 
     employees of the Embassy and killed 3 Lebanese passers by: 
     Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate, on the 25th anniversary of the 
     April 18, 1983, bombing of the United States Embassy in 
     Beirut, Lebanon--
       (1) remembers the victims of the bombing;
       (2) joins family and friends in mourning the American and 
     Lebanese victims who lost their lives in this tragic bombing;
       (3) condemns all terrorist acts that deliberately target 
     the innocent; and
       (4) reiterates its strong support for the people of Lebanon 
     and their Government as they seek to build a better future 
     free from the threat of terrorist violence.

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