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Uss Cole - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 6th Feb, 2009 - 2:52pm
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Remember when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists some years ago? They had since then caught the guy who instigated the plan to bomb the ship, but now he is on the loose - see the news clip below the history.
History:
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| On October 12, 2000, USS Cole came to the harbor of Aden, Yemen for a routine fuel stop. Cole completed mooring at 09:30. Refueling started at 10:30. At 11:18 local time (08:18 UTC), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, putting a 40-by-40-foot (12 m-by-12 m) gash in the ship's port side. 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 39 others were injured in the blast. The injured sailors were taken to the United States Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center near Ramstein, Germany, and later to the U.S. Ref. Source 2 |
Latest Update:
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| PLOTTER OF COLE ATTACK IS ON LOOSE An al-Qaida operative sentenced to die for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert. Ref. Deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,3949,,00.html |
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USS Cole attack 'plotter' charged
US military prosecutors file charges against the alleged mastermind behind the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/a...cas/7482385.stm
Uss Cole
Is this a good idea? I don't think so. What is the guy most likely to do:
A. Forget his captors and go into seclusion
B. Start a farm and start selling potatoes
C. Start planning another attack against the US
If you said "C' then *ding ding ding* you are right!
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I chose choose B because I really believe that he wants to turn his life around and start a nice little family farm where he can raise his sons and daughters and be a family man now. HE would not want to do anything that may cause people to come and harm him.
Yeah and I believe that I am a king of country too. 
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