"Bin Laden has written that it was US support fot the Israeli bombing of Beirut in 1982 that first radicalised him... "I still remember the blood -torn limbs,the women and children massacred. Houses were being destroyed and tower blocks collapsing."

First Lebanon War, began June 6, 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon. The Government of Israel gave a green light for the invasion as a response to the assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov by Fatah - Revolutionary Council and to artillery attacks launched by the Palestine Liberation Organization against populated areas in northern Israel.