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The USS Cole was attacked on October 12, 2000 in Yemen. A small boat carrying explosives and two suicide bombers attacked the ship, leaving a 40 by 40 foot hole left in its side. Seventeen sailors were killed and 47 were injured.CNN: [1]
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri from Saudi Arabia is believed to be the mastermind behind the attacks. He is currently held at Guantanamo Bay and has been charged with planning the attack by a military commission. The senior military judge who oversees trials at Guantanamo is expected to drop charges against him on February 6, 2009 to comply with President Barack Obama's executive order to stop court proceedings at Guantanamo, it was reported in February 2009.Kansas City: Source: Charges to be dropped in terror trial (February 5, 2009)
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- Date: October 12, 2008
- Location: Aden Harbor, Yemen
- Sailors were refueling, eating lunchGlobalSecurity: USS Cole Bombing
- 243 sailors were on boardCNN: [1]
- Damage took 18 months, $250 million to repairGlobalSecurity: USS Cole Bombing
- Organized by Al-QaedaGlobalSecurity: USS Cole Bombing
- Alleged mastermind Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri met with Osama Bin Laden in 1998 to plot the attack, according to documentsCNN: Military to Seek Death Penalty for USS Cole Suspect (June 30, 2008)
- Original plan was to attack an oil tankerCNN: Military to Seek Death Penalty for USS Cole Suspect (June 30, 2008)
- Al-Nashiri is being held at Guantanamo Bay
- Al-Nashiri initially confessed to plotting the attack
- Later said he confessed because he was torturedCNN: Cole Bombing Suspect Says He Confessed Under Torture (March 30, 2007)
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Al-Nashiri was arrested in the United Arab Emirates in 2002 and was transferred to American custody. SkyNews: Al Nashiri: USS Cole Mastermind (September 29, 2004) He has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006. He was charged with "directing and organizing" the attack in June 2008.The New York Times: Pentagon Announces Charges in USS Cole Bombing (June 30, 2008) -
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@dreams2reality they spit on america all the time from the uss cole to the 1st attack on the towers to 911 the dc sniper ft hood
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@phil_ives if you call that a terrorist attack and you don't count uss cole.
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@Karoli @bbart76 And the 9/11 attacks weren't religion-specific, the USS Cole attack wasn't religion-specific.
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