Osama bin Laden12 October 2000
Two suicide attackers ram a boat carrying explosives into the USS Cole in Aden port killing 17 American sailors
Saudi Arabia · Politics / Al-Qaeda. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Two suicide attackers ram a boat carrying explosives into the USS Cole in Aden port killing 17 American sailors
A fuel tanker is blown up outside a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba killing 19 people including 14 German tourists, an al Qaeda spokesman later says the organisation is behind the suicide attack
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