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...others made clear that U.S. officials had not pushed the Saudi government hard enough to comply with the new security plans. Senator John Warner (R-Virginia) said he was "stunned" by the witnesses' inability to describe U.S. efforts to gain Saudi permission to extend the perimeter fence around the Khobar towers, the base where 19 U.S. servicemen died June 25. "In hearings like this, there's a lot of second-guessing and it's unpleasant," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But it should be: people died." Extending the Khobar fence might have helped to prevent the attack, he adds...
...steamy darkness of a summer night on the Persian Gulf, Staff Sergeant Alfredo Guerrero was making the rounds of the observation posts under his command. He stepped onto the roof of one of the apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck...
...basically change its mission because of this," President Clinton said last week. The missions over Iraq are being flown without interruption. But if American forces are to stay in the gulf, the U.S. will have to defend them better. Fences and concrete barriers protect the Khobar compound, and after the attack in Riyadh, regular patrols were stepped up and lookouts were posted on rooftops. But no American official believed terrorists could strike with an explosion 10 times the size of the one in Riyadh. As General J.H. Binford Peay, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, implied, the terrorists...
...died at Khobar were there to protect Saudi Arabia from an external threat, not an internal one, yet that is what they fell victim to. On Thursday the bodies were flown back to the U.S. That same day, pilots from the 58th Fighter Squadron who lived in Building 131 returned home, having completed their normal 90-day tour of duty. "Their 90 days was up," said Major James Stratford. "They left. But some of them went home in coffins...
...have any misgivings," Ted Fennig of Greendale, Wisconsin, said last week. Fennig's son, Technical Sergeant Patrick P. Fennig, 34, an F-15 crew chief, was killed in the explosion at the Khobar Towers compound. "None of us," Fennig said, "have a problem with the mission." The families of other service members who died echoed that sentiment, and U.S. officials insisted that the act of terror would not deter the U.S. from fulfilling its mission in Saudi Arabia and around the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of last week's deaths, however, it is appropriate to ask what exactly that...