1985 Beirut car bombings

March 1985 Beirut car bombing
Part of Lebanese Civil War
LocationBir al-Abed, Beirut
Coordinates33°51′09″N 35°30′38″E / 33.8524°N 35.5105°E / 33.8524; 35.5105
Date8 March 1985
TargetMohammed Hussein Fadlallah
Attack type
Car bombing, attempted assassination
Deaths80[1]
Injured~200
PerpetratorCIA linked Lebanese counter-terrorism unit[2]

On 8 March 1985, a car bomb exploded between 9[3] and 45 metres[4] from the house of Shia cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, in a failed assassination attempt by a Lebanese counter-terrorism unit linked to the Central Intelligence Agency.[2] The bombing killed 80 people and injured 200, almost all civilians.[1][3]

Beirut experienced three other deadly car bombs in following months on 22 May, 14 August and 18 August 1985.[5]

  1. ^ a b Babcock, Charles R.; Woodward, Bob (23 June 1985). "CIA Denies Part in Bombing". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b "C.I.A. Linked to Beirut Bomb". The New York Times. Associated Press. 12 May 1985. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b "60 Killed by Beirut Car Bomb". The Guardian. 9 March 1985. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
  4. ^ Davis, Mike (18 April 2006). "A History of the Car Bomb (Part 2): Car Bombs with Wings". Asia Times Online. Archived from the original on 19 April 2006.
  5. ^ "Car Bomb Kills 50 in Christian Area near East Beirut". The New York Times. Associated Press. 18 August 1985. Retrieved 9 July 2018.