The USS Cole Bombing was a suicide attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were killed. On October 12, 2000, USS Cole, under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, set in to Aden harbor for a fuel stop. The Cole completed going around at 9:30. Refueling started at 10:30. According to the former CIA intelligence officer Robert Finke, the explosion appeared to be caused by explosives molded into a shaped charge against the side of the boat. At the time, it was discovered that they used 1,000 pounds of explosives. The explosion hit the side of the boat, where the crew was lining up for lunch. The crew of the boat fought the flooding in the engineering part of the boat and they had the damage under the control by the evening.
Seventeen sailors were killed and thirty-nine others were injured in the explosion. The injured sailors were taken to the United States Army's "Landstuhl Regional Medical Center" near Ramstein, Germany and later, back to the United States. The attack was the deadliest against a U.S. naval vessel since the Iraqui attack on the USS Stark. This issue was taken to the court and the U.S. Government claimed that Al Qaeda could not have done this without the help of the Sudanese Government. On Jule 25, 2007, the court ordered the Sudanese government to pay $8 million dollars to the family of the seventeen sailors who died. To save the thirty-nine that were injured, Marines flew in towards the ship to get the surviving sailors out.
The USS Cole Bombing was a suicide attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were killed. On October 12, 2000, USS Cole, under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, set in to Aden harbor for a fuel stop. The Cole completed going around at 9:30. Refueling started at 10:30. According to the former CIA intelligence officer Robert Finke, the explosion appeared to be caused by explosives molded into a shaped charge against the side of the boat. At the time, it was discovered that they used 1,000 pounds of explosives. The explosion hit the side of the boat, where the crew was lining up for lunch. The crew of the boat fought the flooding in the engineering part of the boat and they had the damage under the control by the evening.
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