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The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
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USS Cole (DDG-67)
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
USS Cole (DDG-67) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer home-ported in Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Cole is named in honor of Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine-gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, during World War II. Cole is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
United States Navy
Maritime service branch of the U.S. military
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Destroyer
Type of warship intended to escort other larger ships
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USS Cole bombing
2000 suicide attack by al-Qaeda
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by Al-Qaeda against USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while it was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Al-Qaeda
Pan-Islamic Sunni Jihadist organization (established 1988)
Al-Qaeda, is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate. Its membership is mostly composed of Arabs but also includes…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)