Bin Ashur is a neighbourhood of
Tripoli, Libya.
The densely populated area housed many diplomats and was considered to be a wealthy area.
United States bombing in 1986 devastated the neighbourhood. Eiji Tanaka, the Ambassador of Japan to Libya, speculated that the U.S. bombs were intended to reach the
Central Security Organization
The Special Security Forces ( ar, قوات الأمن الخاصة, Quwwatul Amn al-Khasah), formerly known until 2013 as the Central Security Organization ( ar, قوات الأمن المركزي, Quwwatul Amn al-Markazi), is a paramilitary forc ...
behind the
Embassy of France to Libya, which received damage.
1986: US launches air strikes on Libya
" '' BBC''. Retrieved on 12 February 2009.
References
{{Neighborhoods of Tripoli
Neighborhoods of Tripoli, Libya