USS Cole

Nearly one year before the attacks of 9/11, the USS Cole, located off the coast of Yemen, was attacked by terrorists. On October 12, 2000, while refueling at a port in Aden, Yemen, the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole was attacked by a two suicide bombers navigating a small motorboat full of explosives. Seventeen sailors were killed and 39 were injured in the blast. The attack was later attributed to a cell within the al-Qaeda network, and had been supervised by Osama bin Laden.