Permanent historical factsheet

Al-Qaeda

United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1998–2010Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1998

William Jefferson Bill Clinton7 August 1998

Government / Democratic Party Government

Al-Qaeda bomb the US Tanzanian embassy. Al-Qaeda bomb the US Kenyan embassy

2010

Barack Hussein Obama3 January 2010

Government / Democratic Party Government

The United States and the United Kingdom have close their embassies in the country of Yemen due to ongoing security threats from terrorist group Al-Qaeda. The suicide bomber on the Christmas Day flight to Detroit was tied to the terrorist organisation in Yemen

Names involved

Barack Hussein ObamaWilliam Jefferson Bill Clinton

Provenance

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