Good morning — and a happy 57th birthday to Martin Luther King, III! On this date in 1983, a truck bomb detonated outside a barracks in Beirut, killing 241 US Marines. No significant American retaliation followed the attacks, and Ronald Reagan began pulling troops out of Beirut four months later. The tragic incident wasn’t politicized, and no Benghazi-like conspiracy theories followed. Details still murky –> It’s still unclear whether a gunman shot dead by Ottawa police carried out yesterday’s apparent terror attacks alone, or if there are other shooters at large. One Canadian soldier was killed outside the Parliament....
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