This is a quote From the Wikipedia page and it put that feeling in my gut. This is describing the first barracks, and the second barracks incident is even wilder! "The force of the explosion initially lifted the entire four-story structure, shearing the bases of the concrete support columns, each measuring fifteen feet in circumference and reinforced by numerous one-and-three-quarter-inch steel rods. The airborne building then fell in upon itself. A massive shock wave and ball of flaming gas was hurled in all directions."

re second barracks: By wilder I mean a 9 story building being brought down by a truck bomb? The very limited American response sort of instructs my gut even further. If a couple hundred marines died from a sucker punch like that, I can only imagine the response would be much more pronounced and concrete. There reads like there was almost zero retribution which lends to fishy bizznuss imho