Lebanon replaces Detroit consul expelled over 1983 Marines attack posts

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Lebanon has replaced its consul general in Detroit after the United States declared Ibrahim Charara persona non grata. The move followed a 2021 social media post in which Charara praised the 1983 suicide attack that killed hundreds of U.S. Marines in Beirut.

Lebanon's consul general in Detroit, Ibrahim Charara, left the United States after the State Department declared him persona non grata over a 2021 social media post in which he praised the suicide attack that killed hundreds of US Marines in Beirut in 1983.