While everyone remembers 9/11 few recall that six years ago today, seventeen American sailors died and another 39 were injured in an attack on the American guided missile destroyer, USS Cole, in Aden Harbor, off the coast of Yemen. As the ship was refueling, a small craft piloted by two al Qaeda terrorists and loaded with about 700 pounds of explosives approached the ship and detonated. The blast blew a 40-foot by 40 foot hole in the port side of the USS Cole. The bombing operation was orchestrated by Osama bin Laden.
Two years later – on the same date in 2002, 202 people were killed and another 210 were injured when two large bombs exploded in the Kuta nightclub district on Bali in Indonesia. A third, smaller bomb detonated outside the American embassy.
Let us never forget the evil we face.
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