destroyer. A 60-foot by 60-foot patch was welded to the hull of the destroyer before it was off-loaded from Blue Marlin, a Norwegian heavy transport ship that carried the Cole back to the United States. In August 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania fell under terrorist attacks when both embassies were bombed. At least 200 people were killed and about 5,000 were injured in Nairobi, Kenya and 10 people were killed and 74 people were injured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
In June 1996, a terrorist act killed nineteen American service members and
injured hundreds of other service members and Saudis when terrorists
exploded a massive truck bomb outside the Khobar Towers housing complex in
Dhahran,Saudi Arabia. For current information on the Global War on
Terrorism, please visit our related links page.
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