A list of some attacks on U.S. personnel in Lebanon

Some attacks on U.S. personnel in Lebanon:

-- Jan. 14, 2008: Explosion targets U.S. Embassy vehicle in northern Beirut, killing at least three Lebanese and wounding local embassy employee and American bystander.

-- Feb. 17, 1988: Marine Corps Lt. Col. William R. Higgins kidnapped and murdered by Iranian-backed terrorists while serving with U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.

-- March 16, 1984: William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut, kidnapped and killed by Islamic Jihad.

-- Sept. 20, 1984: Suicide bomber attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Christian suburb of Aukar, six miles north of Beirut, killing 14 people, including two Americans. Ninety-six others wounded, including then-U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew.

-- Oct. 23, 1983: Suicide attacker rams truck loaded with explosives into U.S. Marine base near Beirut airport, killing 241 servicemen.

-- April 18, 1983: Suicide truck-bombing shreds U.S. Embassy building on Muslim West Beirut’s seafront, killing 62 people, including 17 Americans. More than 100 people wounded.

-- June 16, 1978: U.S. Ambassador Francis E. Meloy Jr. and his economic counselor, Robert O. Waring, kidnapped from limousine on demarcation line dividing Beirut into Christian and Muslim sections. Their bullet-riddled bodies are later found.