Word: aden
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ATTACK DEC. 29, 1992 ADEN, YEMEN One hundred U.S. servicemen had just left the Gold Mohur Hotel, on their way to duty in Somalia, when the bomb hit. It killed two people in the hotel and seriously wounded four tourists. Two suspects reportedly had 23 bombs, two antitank mines, dynamite and machine guns...
ATTACK OCT. 12, 2000 ADEN, YEMEN A boat laden with explosives rammed the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 sailors and wounding more than 30. Bin Laden, at his son's wedding, wrote an ode to his supporters who carried out the attack: "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles...
...November. Pickard, a 27-year bureau veteran who supervised the prosecution of the World Trade Center bombers as well as the terrorism cases against the "blind sheik" Abdel Rahman, the East Africa embassy bombers and the perpetrators of the attack on the USS Cole in Aden, has been the FBI's chief operating officer since late 1999, when then-FBI director Louis Freeh made him his right hand...
...Aden Oct. 12, 2000 A small boat pulled beside a destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole, while it was refueling, and exploded, killing 17 sailors...
...invulnerability." Not so; in the last decade, whether because of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, the threat to blow up trans-Pacific flights, the bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998, or the attack on the Cole in Aden harbor this year, Americans have understood that they could be a target. The degree of security in government offices and at airports is of a degree unimaginable only 20 years ago, when you could wander around federal government buildings almost at will. But no amount of understanding could suffice...