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The US embassy bombings were 20 years ago today; what was the interest like in the US?
Posted on 8/7/18 at 10:52 am
Posted on 8/7/18 at 10:52 am
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I was still fairly young, but I don't really remember this being a top story in the news for very long. Am I remembering wrong?
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The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which over 200 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.[1]
The attacks, which were linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, brought Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and their terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, to the attention of the U.S. public for the first time, and resulted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placing bin Laden on its ten most-wanted fugitives list. The FBI also connected the attack to Azerbaijan, as 60 calls were placed via satellite phone by bin Laden to associates in the country's capital Baku.[2] Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah were credited with being the masterminds behind the bombings.[3][4][5]
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I was still fairly young, but I don't really remember this being a top story in the news for very long. Am I remembering wrong?
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Posted on 8/7/18 at 10:59 am to GetCocky11
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I was still fairly young, but I don't really remember this being a top story in the news for very long. Am I remembering wrong?
I don't think it was either. Probably because getting images and reporters to those areas was difficult back in those days.
1998-01 was a time of incredible geopolitcal uncertainty. you had the cold war satellite states figuring out their futures. Most notably the Yugoslavian civil war. The US military was reshaping itself to a flexible "littoral combat force", and some guy named Bin Laden creating a US archenemy without borders or uniforms.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 11:00 am
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:02 am to GetCocky11
It's worth noting that most of the people in these embassies are locals to start with. These attacks killed over 200 people and wounded over 4,000, but only 12 Americans died.
It's still true today, most embassies around the world (US and non-US) are mostly staffed by locals who handle mundane, non-sensitive matters.
It's still true today, most embassies around the world (US and non-US) are mostly staffed by locals who handle mundane, non-sensitive matters.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:03 am to Tigeralum2008
I was on a DDG in the Persian Gulf, we hauled arse out of the straits and launched tomahawks into suspected terrorist training camps off of pakastain into Afghanistan.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:03 am to Tigeralum2008
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1998-01 was a time of incredible geopolitcal uncertainty.
This, Cole, 9-11
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:04 am to VerbalKint
And was on 2nd deployment when the Cole got bombed.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:06 am to GetCocky11
It was a major story as was the Cole.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:06 am to VerbalKint
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VerbalKint
Ship ?
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:07 am to GrammarKnotsi
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Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:12 am to VerbalKint
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Plankowner ?
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:14 am to GrammarKnotsi
Yes sir. Actually first one to report to the PCU in Pascagoula. Mustered with the Cole for a while.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:16 am to VerbalKint
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VerbalKint
Always jealous of West Coast ports vs our East Coast ones
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:17 am to GrammarKnotsi
Yea, Thailand nearly killed me, in a good way.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:18 am to VerbalKint
What were you on?
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:19 am to GetCocky11
We didn’t do shite. We popped off a couple of missiles and that was it. Bill Clinton should have taken out Osama and prevented 9/11.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:19 am to VerbalKint
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What were you on?
DDG-67..Fresh out of the yard, after
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:21 am to The Boat
If I remember correctly there were about 100 tomahawks launched from 9-10 different ships/subs. We launched 10. Battle Ensign flying at night. Gave me patriotic wood.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:22 am to foshizzle
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It's worth noting that most of the people in these embassies are locals to start with. These attacks killed over 200 people and wounded over 4,000, but only 12 Americans died.
It's still true today, most embassies around the world (US and non-US) are mostly staffed by locals who handle mundane, non-sensitive matters.
While this is kind of true the reason not many Americans died and most killed or wounded were locals was because the bomb went off at the gate and most of the damage done was to a shitty packed apartment building next door.
And the death count was lower in Tanzania because the bombers were stopped by a security guard and bitched out and detonated outside of the compound.. killing locals.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 11:32 am
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:23 am to GetCocky11
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The US embassy bombings were 20 years ago today; what was the interest like in the US?
Thanks Pres. Clinton, had the chance to take out bin Laden NINE TIMES and never took the shot. frick him v
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:36 am to The Boat
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We didn’t do shite. We popped off a couple of missiles and that was it. Bill Clinton
Remember when we blew up that pharmaceutical plant in Sudan as suspected terrorist linked?
Whoops
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