In Clint Eastwood style, he warned the airplane hijackers, hostage takers and truck bombers of the world, "You can run, but you can't hide."
The Marines paid a high price in Beirut in 1983 when a suicidal truck bomber demolished their barracks, killing 241 men.
The Sheraton Hotel, 100 yards away, was evidently too easy a target for a truck bomber.
However, at four o'clock in the morning, a French vehicle falls into the crater caused by the explosion of the truck bomber,one soldier is injured.
The truck bomber on Monday crashed into a convoy of 24 buses carrying unarmed navy personnel going on leave or returning to duty.
Those concerns made worldwide headlines last weekend with the closing of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the building to deter would-be truck bombers.
Remo, the White House had to publicly ring itself with concrete barricades to stop truck bombers.
"You're safe from the truck bombers, the people who'd give up their own lives to get yours."
Before he left, Smith asked the exact nature of the defense of the President against the Iranian truck bombers.
They were meant to be security barriers against possible car or truck bombers in a jittery city intent on safeguarding itself.