Faylaka Island attack
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title:
Faylaka Island attack
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The Faylaka Island attack took place on October 8, 2002, when two Kuwaiti citizens with ties to Al-Qaeda jihadists in Afghanistan attacked a group of unarmed United States Marines conducting a training exercise on a Kuwaiti island, killing one before being killed themselves. The attackers were reported to have served as volunteers with the Taliban in Afghanistan, prior to the U.S. invasion of that country in response to the September 11 attacks of 2001. The Marines were on a training exercise on
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faylaka_Island_attack
date created:
2009-07-31T21:04:28Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T11:47:30Z
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