1985 Beirut Car Bombing
First Phase
- Bus massacre
- Hotels
- Black Saturday
- Karantina
- Damour
- Tel al-Zaatar
Second Phase
- Hundred Days' War
- 1978 South Lebanon conflict
- Ehden
- Safra
- Zahleh campaign
Third Phase
- 1982 Lebanon War
- Sabra and Shatila
- US Embassy
- Barracks bombing
- Mountain War
Fourth Phase
- War of the Camps
- 1985 Beirut car bombing
- Geagea-Hobeika Conflict
- October 13 massacre
On 8 March 1985, a car bomb exploded between 9 and 45 metres from the house of Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, in a failed assassination attempt allegedly organized by the American CIA and British intelligence. The bombing killed more than 80 people and injured 200, almost all civilians.
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