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...only after the Gulf War, by which time bin Laden had moved his operations to Sudan (he would later be forced to shift back to Afghanistan), that he started to target Americans. To all but insiders, he first became notorious in 1998, when al-Qaeda operatives exploded truck bombs at the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 12 Americans and hundreds of locals. Since then there has been a steady drumbeat of attacks linked to al-Qaeda--some successful, some not--on American targets and those of U.S. allies around the world...
ATTACK JUNE 25, 1996 DHAHRAN, SAUDI ARABIA A massive truck bomb at the Khobar Towers apartment compound, where hundreds of U.S. Air Force personnel were stationed, killed 19 U.S. airmen and wounded hundreds more...
...only after the Gulf War, by which time bin Laden had moved his operations to Sudan (he would later be forced to shift back to Afghanistan), that he started to target Americans. To all but insiders, he first became notorious in 1998, when al-Qaeda operatives exploded truck bombs at the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 12 Americans and hundreds of locals. Since then there has been a steady drumbeat of attacks linked to al-Qaeda?some successful, some not?on American targets and those of U.S. allies around the world...
...American flag capes fluttering behind them, and scores of others had adorned their outfits or bodies with stars and stripes. Hundreds of shouting spectators held placards reading “God Bless America” or “WTC, We Will Never Forget.” One fire truck drawn up alongside the course bore a sign, “25,000 Heroes,” which drew an overwhelming response of “You’re the heroes” from passing runners...
Around the corner rolls a pickup truck that looks like it just came in from the Iowa State Fair in the 1920s. On the red cab doors are yellow Turkel posters—it’s her husband, who has come to deliver Carberry’s coffee and croissants to Segat and to a volunteer with a Turkel sign...