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...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the organizer of the 9/11 attacks currently in U.S. custody. After his return to Saudi Arabia, officials say, al-Dandani had worked under senior Qaeda commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Walid Ba 'Attash, both Saudis, who had planned the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Al-Dandani took over the Persian Gulf command after al-Nashiri and Ba 'Attash were captured in separate incidents, say U.S. officials...
...also covered the signing of the armistice aboard the USS Missouri which ended WWII...
Finnigan—who graduated summa cum laude with degrees in math and philosophy from Boston College in 1999—attended Officer Candidate School the summer before his senior year, and was commissioned aboard the USS Constitution the weekend he graduated...
Before he arrived at the Law School, however, Zobel spent two years stationed in Hawaii and then on the USS Los Angeles as an officer in the Navy, following many of his classmates into military service during the Korean...
...officials say the Saudis were also less than helpful when the U.S. was looking at possible roles played by Saudi nationals in the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi and the suicide attack on the USS Cole. And after the 9/11 attacks, the FBI quickly established that 15 of the hijackers were almost certainly Saudi citizens, but the Saudi government denied that fact for months and moved slowly to respond to U.S. requests for their passport photos, fingerprints, associates and other data...