Ibrahim Charara

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US expels Lebanon's Detroit consul general over 1983 bombing posts

Expelled from the US; returned to Lebanon

The State Department declared Ibrahim Charara, Lebanon's consul general in Detroit, persona non grata and gave him until Sunday morning to leave the country. He flew out on Nov. 8.

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"I carried out my duties," he said at the airport before departing, according to L'Orient-Le Jour.

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A 2021 post attributed to his account: "The heroic resistance to the American military occupation of Beirut ended with a single strike."

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