On October 23, 1983, members of Islamic Jihad, an anti-Israel, anti-Western, Iran-sponsored terrorist group, attacked U.S. troops stationed in Lebanon by exploding a car bomb outside the Marine compound near the Beirut airport. The Reagan administration withdrew from Lebanon, called "a thousand-year-old hornet's nest" by one official. Here military personnel search for and remove bodies of their 241 dead comrades. © Corbis.