On 12 October 2000, USS Cole set in to Aden harbor for a routine fuel stop. Cole completed mooring at 09:30. Refueling started at 10:30. Around 11:18 local time, a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, putting a 40-by-60-feet gash in the ship's port side according to the memorial plate to those that lost their lives.
The blast appeared to be caused by explosives molded into a shaped charge against the hull of the boat. It was reported that the boat was so close that the attackers aboard the boat and the sailors exchanged greetings before the blast. It is believed that sailors aboard the USS Cole thought the boat was just a garbage service boat.The blast hit the ship's galley, where crew were lining up for lunch.The crew fought flooding in the engineering spaces and had the damage under control by the evening. Divers inspected the hull and determined the keel was not damaged.
Seventeen sailors were killed and thirty nine others were injured in the blast. The attack was the deadliest against a U.S. Naval vessel since the Iraqi attack on the us on 17 May 1987.The asymmetric warfare attack was organized and directed by Osama bin Laden s al-Qaeda terrorist organization. In June 2001, an al-Qaeda recruitment video featuring bin Laden boasted about the attack and encouraged similar attacks.
for real i dont know how the peoplee can do the attacks. i think who do that are crazy people, but for real im think this attacks are sad many people innocent die and in this case the sailorss:(,
ResponderEliminarHow aggressive, it was really unfair that those sailors died just because of the beliefs of people with no rights over the lives of others. I think innocent people is paying for someone else's mistakes...
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