Corrections & Amplifications
May 10, 2011
THE BEIRUT BOMBING that killed more than 200 U.S. Marines occurred at a barracks near the Beirut Airport in October 1983. An article April 13, 2011 the bombproofing of embassies said incorrectly that the blast occurred at the Beirut embassy compound. A car bomb earlier in 1983 at the U.S. embassy did kill 62 people, 19 of them Americans.
