USS Cole Bombed: Terror Strikes in Aden Harbor
Two suicide bombers detonated a small boat packed with explosives alongside the USS Cole while it refueled in Aden harbor, killing 17 American sailors and tearing a 40-foot hole in the destroyer's hull. The attack exposed critical vulnerabilities in U.S. force protection and foreshadowed the larger al-Qaeda strikes that followed on September 11, 2001.
October 12, 2000
26 years ago
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