IRAN MUST PAY $2.6 BILLION FOR 1983 ATTACK

A federal judge yesterday ordered Iran to pay more than $2.6 billion to nearly 1,000 family members and a handful of survivors of a 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 soldiers. The ruling brought cheers and tears from survivors but faces long odds of being fulfilled.

Iran is being held responsible for Oct. 23, 1983 suicide bombing in Lebanon that killed 241 American soldiers--of course collecting will be a different matter.

But imagine if Iran could be held responsible for every suicide attack that Hezbollah...

It is important to remember that until the morning of September 11, 2001, Hezbollah had been responsible for the deaths of more Americans, our countrymen, than any other terrorist group in the world. (Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gate

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