Modern Era · Middle East · War
1996
Khobar Towers bombing
June 25, 1996
A massive truck bomb exploded outside a US Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia, killing nineteen American airmen. Hezbollah fighters with Iranian backing were suspected. Osama bin Laden praised the attack. A campaign of attacks against American targets in the Muslim world was gathering pace that Washington was slow to recognize.
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