The top Lebanese diplomat in Detroit, who attended an Arab American banquet in support of Abdul El-Sayed and other Democratic candidates last week, praised Hezbollah's 1983 suicide attack on the U.S. Marine Corps barracks, which killed 241 American service members, in social media posts unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon .
Ibrahim Charara serves as Lebanon's consul general in Detroit, an important role since there is a large Lebanese population in the Detroit area. He wrote on Nov. 23, 2021, the anniversary of the barracks bombing, that the "heroic resistance" ended "American military occupation" of Lebanon with a "single strike." The Iran-backed Hezbollah is believed to have been behind the attack, in which two suicide bombers killed 241 Marines, 58 French soldiers, and 6 civilians at military facilities in Beirut.
"From the Marines barracks in Beirut to the Al-Tanf base... we will reject the occupier and defeat him," Charara wrote, a reference to a purported Iran and Hezbollah d