... recent attack, before the September 11th attacks, came on October 12, 2000 when the USS Cole was bombed in the Gulf of Aden below Yemen (Hosenball 28). The USS Cole was detouring into the Gulf of Aden to refuel when the attack occurred. A small boat approached the Cole, apparently to help take off trash. Its two crew members tie their boat to a mooring ... line amidships. Pressing their boat into the hull, they detonate the powerful bomb (Hosenball 29). The explosion tore a 40-by-40-foot hole through the half-inch steel of the Cole's outer hull, and burst through an engine room. The bom...

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... be free. It had been approximately two years before Osama carried out his next attack against the United States. When in October 2000 there was an attack on the USS Cole, which was in the port of Aden. The attack resulted in seventeen sailors dying and thirty-nine wounded. So far Osama has not publicly admitted to being involved with the ... to new recruits for the al-Qaeada network. Then came the attacks that no one could have ever imagined against the United States September 11, 2001. Just like the USS Cole Osama has never publicly taken responsibility for the attack, but is seen on v...

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... that there existed missed opportunity based on the signs the CIA was receiving: the first World Trade Center bombing eight years earlier, the African embassy bombings in 1998, the USS Cole attack in Yemen in 2000, and the recent HUMINT (human intelligence) whisperings ofsomething big? in the works. However, it is also clear the chief Tenet and the rest of CIA ... ...

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... immediately after 9/11. He is responsible for thousands of deaths relating to America from just three incidents. The 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing, Bin Laden and his "colleagues" masterminded all the 2000 U.S.S. Cole bombing, and the Sept. 11th attack. These actions just add fuel to the fire. Attacking a country that heads a national anti-terrorism agency gives that country more incentive to fight back ... ...

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... in a way, because they will know the severe consequences of their actions. When the terrorists bombed the World Trade Center the first time and also when they attacked the USS Cole, killing seventeen US soldiers, the government failed to take any type of action against the person or people who organized and paid for the attacks: Osama bin Laden. The government ... ...

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... head for the Tajik and Pakistani borders.  October 12, 2000 - Washington warns it will attack Afghanistan if bin-Laden is found responsible for the bomb attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, which kills 17 sailors.  November 2000 - UN leaves the Afghanistan seat with President Rabbani. Taliban and Opposition agree to peace talks.  December 7, 2000 - US and Russia ... ...

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... major changes in major faiths. One example of that is al-Qaeda a network ran by Osama Bin Laden and is responsible for none eleven and the bombing of the USS Cole. Religious terrorism is the biggest problem out of the two. The lists of countries that have suffered from religious terrorism are as followed: Afghanistan, Dubai, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Israel, Jordan ... ...

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... ; the assassination attempt on Egyptian President Mubarak in Ethiopia (June 1995); the bombing of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (August 1998); the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen (November 2000), and recent hijack of passenger airplanes flying through both the World Trade Towers in New York and Pentagon in Washington (September 2001). There are strong evidences ... ...

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... exile whose Al Qaeda organization has been implicated in many other terrorist acts including the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the bombing of the USS Cole, was known to be living in Afghanistan harbored by the Taliban regime. The Taliban, an extremist Sunni Muslim group, gives safe haven to Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network ... ...

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