Category: Lebanon
Detroit Consul Expelled Over a 1983 Post
The United States has ordered Lebanon consul general in Detroit Ibrahim Charara to leave the country by Sunday, November 8, over social media posts from 2021 that praised the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. The case turns on a five year old post, a disputed account, and a 43 year old argument about what the Marines were doing in Lebanon.