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Poetics Of Security, Costas M. Constantinou
Poetics Of Security, Costas M. Constantinou
Costas M. Constantinou
On October 23, 1983, at around 6:20 A.M., there was a suicide attack against the U.S. Marine
battalion in Beirut. A lorry-van loaded with an estimated four thousand pounds of explosives was
driven and exploded inside the military headquarters, killing 260 American marines and resulting in
the withdrawal of the multinational force from Lebanon. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attack. Later, it was revealed that a security camera had captured the truck crashing through the
perimeter fence into the entrance lobby. After routine technical treatment, the experts managed to
recover, and subsequently released to the media, the face of …