Week 13 In 1983, a pro-Iranian group calling itself the Islamic Jihad Organization (later known as Hezbollah) detonated a suicide bomb next to the U.S. embassy, killing 63 people. It wasn’t the first shot fired in the war with Islamic jihadists, but it was a harbinger of the broader war to come.

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